If I couldn’t get good tea when I am travelling, I will just drink water. Why bother drinking bad tea? Have never figured that part out about others. They may pay pennies less per cup of vastly inferior tea. Yes, Pre-rain Qing Ming Dragonwell will be over $550 p/lb easily. That’s $5.50 a serving ( but makes 4 cups)for one of the most expensive teas in China only government officials get that you…
Terroir matters
If processing is relatively standard and the producers are expert, then what differentiates one tea from another will be varietal and terroir. Those two go hand in hand. Take Anji Baicha for example. It is a local varietal they call ‘White Tea “ or Baicha, and apparently, grows best in this local region. It has a characteristic fragrance that is instantly recognizable and not to be found anywhere…
Harvesting tea is not a sport
Anji Baicha, white or green?
Many people are confused over this question of what the word ‘bai’, or white, refers to as Anji tea is most definitely a kind of green tea; its processing involves ‘sha qing’, or killing green. Turned out that the original mother bush was yielding some silvery gold-hued buds and they called the bush ‘White Tea’, and the lesser varietals ‘Tu Cha’ meaning basic tea. This is not to be confused with…
