Aging Oolong Tea: What Deserves the Time?
Age does not rescue poor tea. It reveals what good material, careful roasting and clean storage were capable of carrying.
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Reading a Vintage
White tea is the only Chinese tea asked to do nothing. It is withered, dried, and then left alone — and what happens next takes years. A note on how age becomes legible in...
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Wuyi, in April
The tea grows in the gap. Rock on both sides, a few hours of light, roots in gravel that came off the cliff face. Field notes from the ravines.
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What the Roast Leaves Behind
Fire changes a tea twice: first in the leaf, then again through the years that follow. Notes on 足火, rest, and what remains after the fragrance settles.
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A Mountain Is Not a Flavour
山场 is not a tasting note. It is exposure, stone, water, distance and the accumulated decisions of people who know one place closely.
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The Quiet Years
Age does not improve every tea. It amplifies what the leaf, the making and the storage were already capable of holding.
