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Taste-wise this #HeiCha didn't surprise, but it's more my water to blame (and my laziness that prevents me from making a right solution for fermented teas).

With my soft water it's a usual "dark" tea with muted notes of something earthy.

I hope to find my way into HeiCha and Puerhs later on, but at this moment I only could say it's a potent stuff.

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#TeaSession #Tea @tea

Taste-wise this #HeiCha didn't surprise, but it's more my water to blame (and my laziness that prevents me from making a right solution for fermented teas).

With my soft water it's a usual "dark" tea with muted notes of something earthy.

I hope to find my way into HeiCha and Puerhs later on, but at this moment I only could say it's a potent stuff.

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"Dark Bamboo" - #HeiCha in the Anhua style [Spring '17, CLT]

There is some confusion with this tea origin: on the package it's stated "origin: Mengyou, Yunnan", while on the site it becomes one from Guangxi.
Yunnan borders with Guanxi region, but in terms of terroirs these are really different places (especially when exact locations are not mentioned).

Dry leaves smell is intense mushroomy - close to what you find in a cuisine under "wood ear" name.

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"Golden Prosperity Pig Cometh" (or "The Golden Pig Arrives and Brings Prosperity" when the title translated literally, made in a year of Pig by Chinese Zodiac) Fu brick - #HeiCha from Gao Jia Shan, Anhua, Hunan [Harvest Spring '18, pressing '19, YS].

Producer also is named #GaoJiaShan, after the mountain.

Brewed in a teapot, but more in a Western style - 5gr/95C/180s. Also, for this tea I used harder water. Thus I got milder tasting liquor that underlines fruity notes.

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It seems like non-puer #heicha is having a moment in the spotlight lately with multiple specialty tea sellers adding Liu Bao to their lineups. It's got me craving something earthy, so I pulled out a decent Fu brick tea I've had for a long time for this morning.

#tea #gongfucha

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Really not in the mood and quite pissed off in general today, but that's another story.

Brewing heicha to get that tea soup in order to get distracted.

"Dark Medicine" - aged #LiuAn #HeiCha - traditional post-fermented (in bamboo baskets) tea of Lu'An, Anhoi, PRC ['03-04, TTPL] via thetea.pl. I don't get those vendors who totally hide their out of stock teas, making it harder to reference.

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A non descript aged Liu Bao type of day. My everyday comfort tea. Relaxing, calming and warm tea session ahead.

#tea #liubao #heicha

@strayleavestea Yes, I'm into #HeiCha of different origins and ages too.
I've not discarded leaves from yesterday yet, so probably would try a few infusions more.

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on the sidenote: through my Tea-journey I could not dive myself into #Puerh . It seems that no matter what I try to do with them, they are not to my taste, while other fermented traditionally made #HeiCha 's - yes, please.

So, I'm into Hunnanese bricks, you could say :)

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finishing this day with the most pressed #HeiCha I've ever seen - Hunnanese Bai Sha Xi "Qian Liang Cubes" [2014/2018, YS]

It's #TombTuesday but also #TeaTuesday, so I'm taking my time with this 2018 Sun Fu heicha from White2Tea. Its golden flowers—you can just see them in the closeup on the first pic—flood the room with tiny lights, adding a mysterious sweetness to the tea.

The Hagi teaware is by one of my favourite Japanese potters, Mukuhara Kashun.

And although it's December, I'm listening to Dennis Johnson's masterpiece for piano, November.

#Tea #Heicha #White2Tea #Teaware #MukuharaKashun #HagiWare #GongFuCha

Teaposting again. I got so excited yesterday when my package came that I forgot to post about one yesterday, that'll be next. Here is the fu cha I was so excited about. It's definitely got that dried fruits smell common in aged teas, but the flavor is definitely hei cha. Light tobacco and hay, smooth, not astringent, almost has a hojicha quality to it but obviously not really roasty. It's thicker feeling than the tian jian I have. Also, it does have the yellow mold, which is neat. #tea #HeiCha

More teaposting. Here is the random tuo cha that they sent with that zi juan bing. I have no idea what it says or anything about it, but here it is. Lol. It's fairly smooth, but a little lacking in flavor, pretty one note, but not bad. Not fishy like some low quality shu, but it's also not begging me to track it down and lacks complexity. 1/2 #Tea #HeiCha