With Regard for Raw Puer
“Hey Josh, I saw your video on Puer tea cakes. That stuff looks interesting! Does it taste good?”“No”“Sold!”So what is it about this category of tea, that has me sipping it almost every single day? I…
Welcome to the J-Tea Blog
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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