Sean GilliesSweet, smokey, dark roasted Fujian, China oolong from my local tea shop. #MastOolong
I'm finding Taiwanese oolong teas to be more varied and fun than their Chinese counterparts. Is this not true? Is it sampling bias? Do I need to find a better source for better mainland Chinese teas? #MastOolong #teastodon #tea
Out of the blue, a colleague of my wife gifted us a small hunk of raw pu-erh. Xiaguan "Te Ji Tuo". I'm enjoying it this morning. I'm surprised that even a simple unaged pu-erh is more earthy than an oolong.
Lew Perin@sgillies Have you had both Wuyi (rock) oolongs and Dancong (Phoenix) oolongs? Thereโs a mighty wide expanse between them, and you might say Tieguanyin lies somewhere in between.
@babelcarp I think I need to try an oolong sampler that includes some of this "King of Duck Shit Aroma" https://yunnansourcing.com/collections/best-selling-products/products/king-of-duck-shit-aroma-dan-cong-oolong-tea.
๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ@sgillies Most of the finer grades of *any* tea in China are not easily available outside of China, unfortunately.
@ZDL I'm at the learning stage, so I'm mostly interested in finding tea that's good value and has some unique character.
What I'm finding out is that Chinese tea is more diverse than I knew. And that there is a whole spectrum of family fields to large factories, and simple/wild to lengthy and precise processing.
@sgillies The diversity is mind-mangling. I've been here 25 years now and I *still* get surprised with entire categories of tea I'd never heard of.
And I have an industry textbook on the subjectโฆ