Last night in a bout of insomnia I watched a bunch of different tea ceremony videos, both Chinese and Japanese. Today, staring into space in my kitchen, decided I'd make a quick cup of tea, just bung some into a tea ball and dunk in hot water... Except! I did the Gongfu Cha brewing thing where you "rinse" the leaves with hot water, to get rid of harsh tannins and ritually purify crud off the leaves.

And wow it's so much nicer, I've been making tea wrong my entire life!

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Bada Manle black tea. This is a sun dried, hand processed Yunnan red tea grown in the Menghai region, very close to the Myanmar border. Bit of a spicy undercurrent to this one, with notes of dried fruit and honey.

This is the kind of tea that gets better with age, like a year or two. But will I be able to hold on to it long enough to enjoy it in a year or more? I only got 3kg and last year I went through 2kg.

Yes, I also sell it. I am not insane.

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