JohnHou's Chinese Tea Life

 "Hua Shi Dai" (New Era), published in 2016 year for the commemoration of 75th birthday of XiaGuan tea factory. Using Gushu(old tree)materials mixed from  BingDao and XiGui tea sub-regions both in MengKu, LinCang tea region.  It uses unique "Qing Shui"(light water) fermentation technology with limited water consumption during whole process compared to traditional methods which costs much water and there is not much more "Dui Wei"(fermentation smell, which needs quite a long time even over a year to disappear), but better taste, aged flavor, smoothness and sweetness, easier for new comer to enjoy puerh shou cha.   Well balanced on the characters from both tea regions.  Clean and neat tea threads are strong and fat with great appearance.  Thick tea soup with high ratio of pectic substances.  Red and bright tea liquor color thickness thanks to the high ratio of pectic substances. Caramel  like fragrance.  Strong tea taste with heavy bittern...

An introduction of lineup from Changtai tea factory. 1) Yi Chang Hao ( 易昌号 ) The 1 st lot of tea published with name “Yi Chang Hao” in 1999 year also the kick-off year of Changtai tea industry and sub-branch in Yiwu town. It successfully got interests from market soon after released. Along with aging, the taste and rich mouth feeling become more appealing. It got a nick name “99 Yi Chang” since then and becomes a flagship product and respected as one of the best tea during wild Yiwu tea. In 2005 year, it got double organic food certificates. Yichanghao mainly uses wild tea lead from Yiwu tea region. Pressed by stone mill. According to variation of tea material, there are four levels of grade called “Ji Pin” (Premium), “Zhen Pin” (Super), “Jing Pin” (High quality) and “Zheng Pin” (Good quality). Individual weight includes 400g, 250g and 100g. Shape of cake, tuo and brick. 2 ） Chen Hong Chang ( 陈鸿昌 , 陈弘昌 ) Using pure tea materials from each famous tea mountain. In ...

Tea in the ancient world: King Tea Mall 2018 old tree Laotian and Ban Pen sh... : This should be familiar ground, even though I'm not really familiar with the "Bo Ya" reference.  I last tried an old-tr...

Floral mixed with the unique tea flavor.  Obvious silver hairs and dark, long and strong tea threads. Rich taste spreads evenly in whole mouth and deep to throat like film coating here.  Strong chaqi( I think "Cha Qi" used here is qualified enough) and long lasting mouth feeling.  Fat and thick brewed tea leave is resilient and tenacious.  Classical Bulang tea mountain spring tea. . Now the only problem is how to share my budget on so many great things.

Tea mountain map of Xishuanbanna prefecture including some famous spots like menghai tea region, nannuo mountain, bulang mountain, laobanzhang village, laomaner  village, make village, yiwu tea region, mahei village, guafengzhai village etc. (Map source: http://www.sohu.com/a/156544584_556656)

(Source: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8B%90%E6%B5%B7%E8%8C%B6%E5%8E%82/10894931?fr=aladdin ) "勐海茶厂 Meng Hai Tea Factory" belongs to TAE TEA group, traditionally known as "大益 DA YI ". In 1910 year, Qing dynasty helped the Chief Chieftain of Che Li Xuan Wei Si (a region name) suppress the war between Chieftains of Meng Hai sub-region and Meng Zhe sub-region. Both were in territory of Che Li Xuan Wei Si . In the same year, business man of Han ethnic Zhang Tangjie opened the first tea store in Meng Hai.  At that time, the harvest of puerh tea was around 100'000 kg/year, and all were transported to Puerh City(also called Si Mao in past) to be processed. Since 1923 year, many people went to Meng Hai to open stores and press tea products for exporting via the new roads via Myanmar and India. In the beginning of 1939 year, the newly found "The Yunnan Tea Corporation" sent Mr. Fan Hejun and Zhang Shicheng to Meng Hai (called Fo Hai at that time) to inv...

NA KA village, Meng Song town, north of Meng Hai county as below (red word). (Map source: http://www.sohu.com/a/156544584_556656) Natural environment. Tea farmer friend and his most large tea tree. Even though, he still sells the price on tea leaves from this individual tree lower as other old trees along with the market. Harvest of this autumn. Test on tea harvested and processed in different days. The earliest was in this Auguest. The latest was picked and processed in two days ago (around Oct. 10th) At the end, I selected the best one of them which was picked around in the first week of Oct, though it is the most expensive one.