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Getting in under the wire trying Ho Yum Blind Tasting Club No 5 just before the meetup early tomorrow AM. Clearly a red/black tea. But from where?
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Tea Number 4 from the Ho Yum Summer 2023 Blind Tasting Club. Hm, seems familiar... Nice example of this type of tea, however.
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Tea Number 3 from the Ho Yum Summer 2023 Blind Tasting Club. Tea Number three is very very nice. I will be super curious to get the details on this one.
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Mystery Tea No 2 from the Summer 2023 Ho Yum Tea Blind Tasting Club. Well, it seems to be some sort of green tea. Beyond that? (Well, probably an assamica varietal or cross...)
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My guess for Ho Yum Tea mystery tea No 4 was right on, bud-only Fujian Jin Jun Mei style red tea. There are two main classic styles of Fujian Red tea, qimen and lapsang souchon (or Zhengshan xiaozhong). "Real" Jin Jun Mei is an outgrowth of the Lapsang style and comes from Tongmu village. If it is authentic Tongmu Jin Jun Mei, it can be very expensive. This tea is made to the Jin Jun Mei production standards, but is from a few km away from the Tongmu area, in Xia Mei town.
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From the taste, my initial instinct was that Ho Yum Mystery tea No 3 was a yellow tea, but the shape of the dry tea and pick standard was nothing like any Chinese yellow tea I'd tried, so I second guessed myself that it might be some sort of raw Liu Bao. Well, it turns out my first instinct was right, tea No 3 was a Taiwanese organic yellow tea made from the "Green Jade" or Cui Yu cultivar.
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Mystery Tea No 2 from the Winter 2023 Ho Yum Tea blind tasting selection was a "2000s Tie Guan Yin Lao Cha". From Xiping town, Anxi, China, this tea was produced with the "Zheng Wei" method suitable for aging. Re-roasted and rested briefly, the initial scent impressions are of roasted grain and toast. The flavors are complex and sometimes reminiscent of tropical fruit. Pleasant charcoal aroma remains in the empty cup.
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Oh, nothing too special, just a 20 year old Anxi Tie Guan Yin Oolong (Iron Goddess of Mercy) from the Ho Yum Tea Blind Tasting Club.
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Mystery tea No. 5 from the Ho Yum Winter 2023 blind tasting set. (Red tea with some nice charcoal character in the empty cup. I would guess Taiwanese.)
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Mystery tea No. 4 from the Ho Yum Winter 2023 blind tasting set. (No real mystery, Fujian style bud only red.)
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Mystery tea No. 3 from the Ho Yum Winter 2023 blind tasting set. (I truly have no idea about this one!)
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Mystery tea No. 2 from the Ho Yum Winter 2023 blind tasting set. (Talk about roasted to within an inch of its life!)
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Mystery tea No. 1 from the Ho Yum Winter 2023 blind tasting set. (This one is not so mysterious to me. Very tasty, tho.)
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