Articles.
- Pu’erh Compendium
- Pu’erh for Beginners
- Ripe Pu’erh Concepts
- Pu’erh Factory Rundown: Why Buy from a Big Factory? Feat. Menghai, Xiaguan
- Old School, New School Pu’erh
- Raw Pu’erh Oddities. Feat: Small Leaf, Purple Leaf, Purple Bud, etc.
- Book Review: Zhang Jinghong’s Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
- What is Pu’erh?
- CNNP Zhongcha: History, Inconsistency, the Bubble & the Bargain Hunter
- Awkwardness in Pu’erh
- Loose vs. Compressed in Pu’erh
- Pu’erh, the Body, and are you confused yet?
- Time Machine! Pu’erh Snapshot… 2008
- Pu’erh as RTS Resource Management
- Blind Spots in the Western Market
- Five Things I Like & Don’t Like. Group Buys, Buying Off the Shelf, Old Trees, YS Wet Teas
- Ten Non-Tea Items To Help You Get Started with Pu’erh – Guest Post w/ Garrett
General Videos
- Raw Pu’erh Basics
- Ripe Pu’erh Basics
- Grandpa Style Brewing
- Extending a Session
- Q&A
- Nerdy Q&A
- Brewing Darker/Older Teas
- Tree Age
Regions.
- Yunnan Overview
- Regional Primer Video
- Lincang
- Simao (Pu’erh)
- Eastern Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Yiwu, Mansa, You Le, etc.
- Western Xishuangbanna, Menghai County
- Big Region, Small Region. Tree Age.
Storage
- Home Storage Pumidor Survey
- Pu’erh Storage Schools
- Pu’erh Home Storage Video
- Pumidors 101. Designing & Maintaining Your Own Pumidor
- Simple Home Storage Solutions
Price/Vendor Guides. These aren’t necessarily intended to be used as a way to shop but a way to be smarter about how you shop.
- Pu’erh Vendor Guide
- The Price of Menghai Recipes: Taobao & Other Purchasing Options
- Shopping for Bargains, The Case for White Label/No-Name Pu’erh
- Pu’erh Budgeting + Shopping. feat. Psychology, Overbuying, & Hoarding
- More Pu’erh Buying Thoughts: Buying Tea for Now & the Long Haul
- Cutting Out the Middleman
- Ripe Pu’erh Shopping: Price Range
- Sampling Pu’erh. A Few Considerations.
- Pu’erh Buying. A Few Common Approaches.
- Relative Price & Tea
- Blogs & Resources
- Useful Pu’erh Blogs & Websites [Video]
- Two Thoughts on Hitting Hard & Buying Pu’erh
- How Much is Your Vendor Marking Up Your Pu’erh
- Pu’erh Vendor Markup Followup
- Pu’erh Vendor Markup Video
- Baseball Closers, 99 Bottles of Wine (Drink Your Damn Tea & Buy the Good Shit)
Taobao
- How to Find Teas on Taobao
- How to Buy Teas on Taobao
Vendor profiles, covering their tea, Yunnan, pu’erh tea culture, etc.
Traveling.
Blog Type
- Drinking Reflections 2016 & 15 Cake Challenge
- Drinking Log Reflections v1
Drinking Reports.
- Yiwu Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month May 2014
- Nannuo Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month June 2014
- Bulang Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month July 2014
- Ripe Pu’erh – Tea of the Month October 2014
- Mature Pu’erh – Tea of the Month November 2014
- Lincang Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month January 2015
- Wuliang/Ailao Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month February 2015
- Yiwu Raw Pu’erh Part 1 [Young Tea] – Tea of the Month May 2015
- Yiwu Raw Pu’erh Part 2 [Slightly Older than Young] – Tea of the Month June 2015
- Semi-Aged Menghai Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month July 2015
- Loving the Crane is Hard to Do Xiaguan Tuition Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month August 2015
- Can’t I Just Settle Down.. Young Menghai Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month September 2015
- All I Want For Christmas.. Yangqing Hao Report – December 2015
- The Cult of Yang – Yangqing Hao Report – February 2016
- Mature Pu’erh Report – March 2016
- Mini-Wistaria Report – April/May 2016
- FOMO. 2016 Premium Young Tea Report
- Give me Guangdong or Give me Death Factory Tea Report – 2016
- No Frills. 18 Quick Hits. Young Pu’erh Report – 2016
- Xizi Hao Report – 2017
Pu’erh Tasting Notes. Episodes of TeaDB where we drank Pu’erh:
Bana Tea
- 1998 Evening Fragrant Jade (Raw)
- 2007 Kunlu (Raw)
- 2008 Jinggu (Raw)
- 2009 Sanhe Hao (Raw)
- 2009 Sanhe Hao Caked vs. Loose (Raw)
- 2012 Denong Lao Banzhang (Raw), and again
- 2014 Red Yiwu (Raw)
- 2015 Red Yiwu Storage Comparison (Raw)
Bannacha
Chawangshop
Crimson Lotus Tea
- 2003 Changtai Yuan Nian Shu Tuo (Raw)
- 2003 Changtai Ji Nian Memorial Tuo (Raw)
- 2005 Changtai “Top of the Clouds” (Raw)
- 2006 Yunnan Pu’erh Special Tea Factory (Ripe)
- 2008 Bulang (Ripe)
- 2008 Lincang Lancang (Raw)
- 2014 Baiyingshan (Raw)
- 2014 Planet Jingmai (Raw)
- 2014 Huangpian (Ripe)
- 2015 Baiyingshan “Hidden Song” (Raw)
- 2015 Kunlu “Slumbering Dragon” (Raw)
- 2016 Space Girls (Raw)
Chenyuan Hao
- 2003 Chenyuan Hao Yesheng (Raw)
- 2007 Chenyuan Hao Lao Banzhang (Raw)
- 2014 Chenyuan Hao Bingdao (Raw)
- 2015 Chenyuan Hao Mansong (Raw)
Denong
Essence of Tea
- 2000 Green Stamp
- 2000 Green Peacock
- 2006 Wild Peacock
- 2014 YuanWei
- 2014 Guafengzhai
- 2014 YunYun
- 2015 YunYa
- 2015 Autumn Guafengzhai Maocha
Fine Pu’er/Sample Tea
Houde Asian Art
Jingjiatang
Mandala Tea
Menghai Tea Factory
Pu-erh.sk
Taobao
- 2001 Dingxing Hao via CheapAgency (Raw)
- 2005 Xiaguan 8653 via MX-Tea (Raw)
- 2005 Xiaguan FT8653-5 via MX-Tea (Raw)
- 2006 Xiaguan FT Purple Box Fangcha via MX-Tea (Raw)
- 2006 Dayi 0622 via MX-Tea (Raw)
Tea Classico
Teapals
Tea Urchin
Xiaguan
- 2004 Xiaguan FT 8653-3+1 (Raw)
- 2005 Xiaguan FT 8653-5, Extended (Raw)
- 2005 Xiaguan 8653 (Raw)
- 2007 Xiaguan Xiao Fa Tuo (Ripe) and again
Xizi Hao
- 2006 Taichi Black Wrapper
- 2007 Kuzhu
- 2007 Xishangmeishao
- 2009 Diangu
- 2009 Guafengzhai
- 2013 Yiwu Chawang
White2Tea
- Mystery Red Mark (Ripe)
- 1990s HK Style (Raw), James
- 1990s HK Style Tin vs. Straight from the Cake (Raw)
- 1990s HK Style (Raw)
- 1990s Orange Label Trad. Stored via Varat (Raw)
- 1998 White Tuo (Ripe)
- 2000 7532 CNNP Tiepai (Raw), and again by James
- 2002 7572 CNNP Tiepai (Ripe)
- 2002 White Whale, and again
- 2005 Manzhuan Xiangming Factory (Raw)
- 2005 Naka (Raw)
- 2005 Teji Tuo (Raw)
- 2006 Old Bear (Raw) and again
- 2006 Yunhai Nannuo (Raw), James
- 2006 Yunhai Nannuo (Raw)
- 2007 Repave (Raw)
- 2009 Yiwu (Raw)
- 2014 Manzhuan White2Tea (Raw)
- 2014 Last Thoughts (Raw)
- 2015 Bosch (Raw)
- 2015 Colbert (Raw)
- 2015 Little Walk (Raw), Comparison
- 2015 Last Thoughts (Raw), Late Steeps
- 2015 Ol’ Reliable (Ripe)
- 2015 Poundcake (Raw), Middle Steeps
- 2015 Tuhao (Raw)
- 2016 Fade (Raw) and again
- 2016 Mengsong/Hongcha Tea Club (Raw/Black)
- 2016 Mengsong Tea Club (Raw)
- 2016 Untitled 02 (Raw)
- 2016 The Treachery of Storytelling P2 (Raw)
- 2016 B___ D___ (Raw)
Wistaria
Yangqing Hao
- 1999 Micang (Raw)
- 2004 Dingji (Raw)
- 2004 Teji (Raw) and another
- 2004 Tuo (Raw)
- 2005 TsangLiu (Raw), and again with Denny & James
- 2005 Yiwu Chawang (Raw), and storage comparison
- 2006 Longya Fengjian (Raw)
- 2006 Shenpin Chawang (Raw)
- 2006 Qixiang (Raw)
- 2006 Wushang Miaopin (Raw)
- 2007 Qizhong (Raw), and again with Denny & James
- 2007 Mushroom (Raw)
- 2007 Lingya (Raw)
Yunnan Sourcing
- Interview
- 1990 CNNP 9016 (Ripe)
- 1997 CNNP 7581 (Ripe)
- 1999 Hua Yuan “Jing Brand” (Raw)
- 2000 CNNP 7561 (Raw)
- 2002 Yiwu “Ancient Spirit (Raw)
- 2004 Nanjian Phoenix Aroma (Raw), James
- 2004 Nanjian Phoenix Aroma (Raw)
- 2004 Songpin (Raw)
- 2004 Gu Puer Cha Ma Gu Dao (Raw)
- 2005 Mengku Zhengshan Daye (Raw)
- 2005 Purple Dehong (Raw)
- 2005 Yangpinhao “Peacock” (Ripe)
- 2006 Fengqing Jia Ji (Ripe)
- 2006 Xiaguan Dali Tuo (Raw)
- 2007 Xiaguan Xiao Fa Tuo (Ripe) and again
- 2007 Bo Nan Yun Wu (Raw), James
- 2007 Bo Nan Yun Wu (Raw). Denny
- 2009 Bulang (Raw)
- 2009 Longxintang Nannuo (Ripe)
- 2009 Menghai 7542 (Raw)
- 2009 Lao Cha Tou (Ripe)
- 2010 Youle (Raw)
- 2011 Yongde Organic (Ripe)
- 2011 Nanjian Organic Mushroom, Denny (Ripe)
- 2011 Nanjian Organic Mushroom (Ripe)
- 2012 Cangyan Gufeng (Raw)
- 2012 Purple Yiwu (Raw)
- 2012 Purple Yiwu (Raw), James
- 2012 Wuliang (Raw)
- 2012 Menghai 8592 (Ripe)
- 2012 Yong de Blue (Ripe)
- 2013 Dasi (Raw)
- 2013 Chensheng Hao Naka (Raw)
- 2013 Premium Mini Tuo (Ripe)
- 2013 Premium Mini Tuo (Ripe), again
- 2013 Xiangming Tin Comparison (Raw)
- 2014 Man Tang Hong 3 (Ripe)
- 2014 Daqing Gushu (Raw), again
- 2015 Walongzhai (Raw)
- 2015 Huangshan (Raw)
- 2015 Zao Qiao Di (Raw)
- 2015 Green Miracle (Ripe)
- 2015 Huirun (Ripe)
- 2015 Year of the Goat (Ripe)
- 2016 Mangfei
Other
- Mystery Aged Tea (C)
- 1960s Teabag
- 1980’s Wild Arbor – Origin Tea (Raw)
- 1990’s Bazhong Red Mark – Origin Tea (Raw), and finished
- 1990’s Paperless (Raw)
- 1990’s Commissioned Orange (Raw)
- 1990’s HK-Stored (Ripe)
- 1990’s Jingua (Raw)
- 1997 Fuhai – New Century Tea Gallery (Ripe)
- 1998 Yiwu Brick (Raw)
- 1998-2003 House Blend Farwenwa (Raw/Ripe)
- 2001 Lahu – Camellia Sinensis (Raw)
- 2001 Dayi Jianyun 7542 (Raw)
- 2001 Yiwu Spring Buds (Raw) and again
- 2003 Changtai Brown (Raw) and again with a traditionally stored one
- 2005 Fengqing Golden Buds – Teavivre (Ripe)
- 2005 Fengqing Zhuan – Teavivre (Raw)
- 2005 Mengsong Peacock (Raw)
- 2006 Big Leaf – Verdant Tea (Raw)
- 2006 Dehong Plateau – TuoChaTea via Hster (Raw/Ripe)
- 2006 Mahei via TShop (Raw)
- 2006 Menghai 0622 (Raw)
- 2006 Xizihao Black Wrapper Lao Banzhang (Raw)
- 2007 Bada (Raw)
- 2007 Dayi Secret Frangrance (Ripe)
- 2007 Yibang Chamasi Mansa (Raw)
- 2008 Xiaguan Xizi (Happy) Tuo (Raw)
- 2008 Xi Zi Hao – Xi Shang Jia Xi (Ripe)
- 2010 Golden Buds – Verdant Tea (Ripe)
- 2015 Verdant Tea “300 Year Old” (Raw)
- 2015 Verdant Tea “1000 Year Old” (Raw)
- 2015 Verdant Tea “1800 Year Old” (Raw)
- Storage, My Pumidor, Q&A
- TW Shopping Report 2015
- HK Shopping Report 2015
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Hey guys, happy to come across your youtube channel! I was wondering if you have info/resources on suppliers or online shops in the US (that also deliver to Western NY), for tea and tea ware?
Thanks!
Chris
Chris,
Check out the vendor profiles portion of this list, every vendor (minus Yangqing Hao) carries both tea & teaware that is deliverable to NY. For teaware specific sites you may also check out:
http://teaware.house/
http://thejadeleaf.com/collections/teaware-1
https://www.etsy.com/shop/GREENWOODSTUDIO
http://stores.ebay.com/Dragon-Tea-House/ACCESSORIES-/_i.html?_fsub=5641094&_sid=150831608&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322
Happy tea drinking,
Garrett
Hi Chris,
Which PuErh cakes are completely 100% pesticide, fertilizer and chemical free? I know that sometimes they spray the weeds around it but I want a tea without even that. Hand picked and hand processed with no chemicals for many years on the field. I know I have to trust certain growers or retailers but I need a place where they guarantee it and show that they haven’t sprayed or used chemicals in many years. Thank you!
Check out Yunnan Sourcing’s own organic Pu’erh all have been certified and tested
Hi there
i leave in Switzerlandi am doing some personal research on Pu erh tea and TeaDunk effects as a substitute to alcohol and THC,
i am actually looking for some help, more details and information about this kind of tea, the varieties of tea that makes you really drunk or high and their effects.
i have discover a lot of info but many different and very confusing
i understood that to get this effects it has to be a “age raw Pu erh tea” or “age raw white tea”
and the more minerals is in the tea, the more it has effects.
is that right?
Could you give me some advices and maybe guide me to find the best tea on the market that could have the strongest drunk/high effect?
If you wish and if you have time, i ll be happy to have a phone talk.
Regards