JohnHou's Chinese Tea Life

This tea was also bought directly from local farmer of YiWu. Their village is called GaoShanCun. GaoShan means high mountain. These tree are around 100 years. These are still not called GuShu or old tree. In my humble opinion, GuShu should be more than 300 years at least. From 100 years to 300 years, we call that DaShu which means Big Tree. From 70 years to 100 years, we call that ShengTai which means Organic Tree. Till 70 year, we call that XiaoShu which means small tree or shrub. This tea was definitely picked up in the spring of 2017. Now is November and near the end of 2017. Thanks to the good storage condition, it is very dry. The flavor is very near wood or dry wood and mixed with aroma like honey or flower. In Chinese, I can directly call this flavor HuaMi Xiang which means flower and honey flavor. Maybe the wood flavor is not because of storage condition or any other reason. Just because it was stored dryly. So the stem has this smell. At the same time, I ...

Last time, we talked about 6 big puerh tea mountains in east of LanCang river which is called Mekong river internationally on google map.  The problem is that along with the rising consumption of puerh tea in market and mainly in domestic market, the harvest of these 6 mountains is becoming less and less because of over-picking. Now the most harvest tea area has moved from east of LanCang river to the west side including 8 big tea mountains which will be introduced this time from north to south. 1. ManNuo (曼糯)   (pic source:  中国普洱茶网  ) ManNuo is in the most north side of MengHai county and belongs to MengWang village, MengWang town also near the border of LanCang district and SiMao district.  The elevation is around 1200m to 1300m. Annual precipitation is around 1300mm to 1400mm.  Old trees are mainly in 3 villages including Big village, Up village and Middle village.  In history, here was one of the important route from MengHai to ...

Shrub plantation of puerh tea Shape of shrub The front side of shrub's leaf. Compared to arbor leaf it is narrower on width and shorter on length and thinner on thickness. Selected shrub's leaf to make puerh tea. The back side of the leaf. The advantage is that the bud is fat and easier to be picked up. Also can be harvested more from same size of plantation, so the economy side is better. But not suitable to be made into traditional puerh tea. Because of the monotonous taste and poor tea water. The fragrant is thinner and the levels of the taste is not so obvious. Usually, arbor tree needs good environment especially non-polluted soil, clean water and atmosphere.  Then the arbor can grow to large tree and high quality large leaf. These trees have tall and sturdy trunk. Classical arbor tree.  Branches of arbor tree. "Hi. Shrub little brother. Let's have a comparison. "😁 Arbor tree said.  "Oh. My God. ...

After received this tea from supplier with very simple plastic bag, I didn't anticipate so much. So I left it in my storage box for a long while. Because it is green tea and can't be kept so long like puerh tea which is the longer the better, so I decided to have a drink this afternoon. * Some foreign tea lovers say that this is a classical package from Chinese domestic tea seller. 😅 I am also a Chinese domestic seller supplying every kind of Chinese tea to world wide. I use paper bag with aluminum film inside to keep the tea from humidity. 😎 So, when I resell this tea, I will repackage it like below. P.S Please ignore the words on the right bag. It is just for reference. Okay. Let's back to the topic of this time. The tea leaf looks still fresh. And the aroma is faint. I think the reason of the original plastic bag. It can't seal so well. I rinse the tea leaf one time in my glass gaiwan. There is still not so high aroma of this green tea. I was a...