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American Chinese Tea Association, LLC., Observing China's Tea Joined March 2012
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10 years ago

Excellent púěr from Myanmar: from top, yerendu (wild-man poison) and mijing, picked in March across border from Bada; China Mahei at bottom

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10 years ago

Bada Mountains, a whole mountainside with older trees the higher you climb, lovely people, a peacefull yet stunning early Bulang shrine…

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10 years ago

Wudong dancong, finished roasting/smoking this week. Price down from last year. Varietal Zuye shown.

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10 years ago

Aromatics produced by lichens thought by Fujian natives to augment flavor. Will transplants speed the process?

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10 years ago

Planted this year in March, beidou in Fuding has weeds thrice its height by August. Time for weeding.

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11 years ago

At the top of the grove is an example of authentic rock tea, growing right out of a stone.

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11 years ago

Producing baimudan from this qizhong tea grove, spread downhill by generations of sons since Qing Dynasty times.

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11 years ago

Recent fields maturing, increasing output so more harvesters in the towns we visit, filling all the shifting drums: 8¥/500g fresh shuixian.

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11 years ago

Wuyi's harvest, while not burned by frost, are smaller and fewer after a cold winter; yields fell to even one quarter of last year's.

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11 years ago

Can anyone identify this aphid-like zaofengchun tea enthusiast?

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11 years ago

Fujian's cold snap including snow has arrested mountain tea harvest just when it was getting going. Lookout for buds frozen dead at the core

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11 years ago

Year's first Fuding white tea, varietal ZaoFengChun. Sweet, deep aroma, tight body, no qingwei or grass or hardness.

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11 years ago

After Fujian's warm winter tea-loving insects are already out. Shown here dabaihao 800m.

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11 years ago

@babelcarp Locals say it makes the whitest buds, but not many of them. Shorter, narrower leaves more susceptible to cold. Smooth light bark.

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11 years ago

@babelcarp Interesting! Do you know anything about the origin, use, or other history of this cultivar? Seems it might predate XBH and DBH?

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11 years ago

Reclaiming discarded grove of xiaobaihao, in 1950s required by CCP to make white tea, replaced with DBH after 1980s.

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11 years ago

@babelcarp Thank you. Middle character the son isn't sure of from father's Min. Eventually I'll get it. Very different plant from DBH.

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11 years ago

@babelcarp First and last characters: "early" and "spring". Fewer "whiter" buds than govt stipulated varietal, dabaihao, so no longer sold.

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11 years ago

Fuding mountain tea (varietal zaohuicun, 600m) almost ready to pick, beginning white tea season after a warm winter.

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11 years ago

Just found this sheng puer. It's good. Full and clear. A thin sè. Very nice to break the cold. Why no harvest date?

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