This is
#庐山云雾茶 (
#LuShan #CloudAndMist #tea) from my first stomping grounds in
#China:
#江西省九江市 (
#Jiujiang,
#Jiangxi). It was here that I stumbled over a tea shop run by a guy who owned his own
#plantation in
#庐山区 (Lushan District) and where I began to find out that everything I thought I knew about tea was a tiny, tiny, tiny tip of a very, very, very tall mountain of information. I'd visit him weekly, taste his teas (both those he produced himself and those he got from elsewhere) and learned a lot about how to prepare and assess teas (mostly greens and wulongs).
I even went up to his plantation a few times and, for a lark, tried to process my own tea from picking to packaging one time. All I got out of that was calloused fingers and a sore back from picking, blistered fingers from the wok, and about a kilogram of tea that was ... not very good. It had a distinct burnt flavour. (I was told it wasn't bad for a first, untrained try—it was at least green and not browned, and the liquor came out the right colour—but it was still a disappointment.)
I still occasionally pick up tea from 庐山 just out of a sense of reminiscence. I'm still currently working through my Emeishan tea; when I crack the seal on this I'll share again with a picture of the dried leaves, the unfurled post-brew leaves and the liquor.
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