The pu’erh scene has dramatically changed over the 11 years since I started my pu’erh journey (documented with the Yiwu Pu’erh Report and a flurry of Yunnan Sourcing and White2Tea teas). Unlike say Xiaguan I’ve always liked Yiwu teas and they remain a substantial chunk of tea I consume. The availability of Yiwu tea has changed and fluctuated since that time period. In 2014, the TW boutiques previously sold by Houde in the mid 2000s were not easily acquirable so the bulk of teas were y...| teadb
The first tea of the month reports I’ve done since re-establishing the blog was the Xiaguan Masochists tea of the month report. This essentially meant drinking a lot of Xiaguan teas that are laying around and trying to measure them against one another. Evaluating teas you haven’t tried much against other one another is much more difficult than trying to compare a tea with a tea you know very well. This is a why having solid benchmarks is helpful. In this case, one tea I’ve used as a ben...| teadb