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Chinese tea, written for the working drinker
530 entries across green, white, oolong, red, pu'er, dark and yellow — every variety with provenance, pinyin, and history. The atlas of the leaf, in seven languages.
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2003 chénnián qīng xīn wūlóng
2003 chénnián qīng xīn wūlóng · 2003陳年青心烏龍
A rare collectible Taiwanese oolong of the lǎo chá (老茶, lǎo chá — "old tea") category, harvested in 2003 from the high-mountain garden of Wùshè (霧社, Wùshè) in Nantou County and subjected to over twenty years of controlled aging with periodic charcoal roasting.
7542
7542
7542 is not a tea variety and not a single mountain, but a 唛号 mài hào recipe of sheng pu-erh from 勐海茶厂 (Menghai Factory, brand 大益 dà yì), which the market has adopted as a reference point: it serv
7542 qīng bǐng
7542 qīng bǐng · 青饼
7542 is the most famous 唛号 (màihào, recipe code) of pressed sheng pu-erh, produced by the Menghai Tea Factory (勐海茶厂, now the 大益 Dàyì brand).
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