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Month: February 2019

February 22, 2019 sweetestdew

Tie Guan Yin

February 21, 2019February 22, 2019 sweetestdew

A lesson in Tea Buying 3/3: Tie Guan Yin

Chiinese Tea Celadon Tea Cup
February 2, 2019 sweetestdew

A Lesson in Tea Buying 2/3: Feng Huang Dan Cong

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last week I was handed this tea. totally caught off guard by how downy it was I wasnt sure if it was good or bad. What do you think? Good or bad? comment below then check out my new article to find out. link in bio Also this article as small connection to @mei_leaf new video
as white tea becomes more popular the terrain of fuding is begining to change. these two photos were taken mere feet from each other. the first are wild tea trees. the second is where wild tea tree use to be, in the forefround, and a hill side being converted into tea fields, background. I do understand a little why these mass conversations of land happen. But as someone who frequenta Anxi where almost every piece of land, even rice fields sitting right next to houses, have been turned into tea fields, I know the damage it does. As I think about it I think the damage is not just done to soil, as the common white tea varietal does ok in bad and low nitrogen soil, but to the processing as well. as makers have more and more leaves to produce they rely more and more on machines and time, not hand and gut. In the case of TGY this greated a mass amount of merely average tea that even in the most famous villages is hard to get away from. As white tea gets more popular I see no curb to this mass land conversation. hopefully the local government will step in sooner rather than later enforce laws to control it. (as you see a little now in anxi)

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