Daily Tea: Liu Bao Dark Tea 1998
Dark tea is a lesser-known variety that is growing in popularity in the Western world. It is already extremely popular in western and southwestern China due to its ability to provide essential mineral…
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I've been sourcing tea in Taiwan since 2004. This is where I write about it.
Not reviews. Not rankings. Stories — about the farmers I work with, the regions I keep going back to, and what twenty years of paying attention to one thing actually teaches you. If you want to understand why a Li Shan oolong tastes different from an Alishan, or what makes a raw puer worth aging, or how I ended up living in Taiwan in the first place — it's in here somewhere.
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