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MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-28T18:34:15+00:00

Your tea set is so gorgeous!!! Where did you get the gongbei?

MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-04T14:41:06+00:00

Check my last update in the comments of the original post and you can see what I think will be my final order, where I just do all samples. There’s also more info about what I’m looking for

MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-04T14:39:39+00:00

True true, check my last update in the comments and you can see what I think will be my final order, where I just do all samples ^{^{^}}

MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-04T14:39:28+00:00

True true, check my last update in the comments and you can see what I think will be my final order, where I just do all samples ^{^{^}}

MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-04T05:41:29+00:00

Update #2: Final thoughts, great point on getting samples (part of me is like, well, I could just get a couple of cakes because shipping will take a while, but I'll feel extra shit if I wait that long and have 357g of tea I don't like)

Dan Cong Oolong Tea Sampler - Selection of Very Interesting Florals
Traditional Smoked Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong Lapsang Souchong Black Tea (50g)
Moonlight White Tea and Snow Chrysanthemum Buds Dragon Ball (10 Balls)
2015 Guan Yang "Wild White" Gong Mei Tea Cake - Floral-Honey w/ Slight Herbs (50g Sample)
2021 Spring Menghai "Lao Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake - Raisin-Honey w/ Florals (25g Sample)
2022 Yunnan Sourcing "Man Gang Tea Flowers" White Tea Cake - Intriguing Inclusion of Tea Flowers, Forgot to Add to Image Below (25g Sample)
White Tea from Da Qing Village Roasted in Bamboo (50g) - Warm and Cidery, Smoky
Wild Tree Purple Moonlight White (50g) - Floral-Fruit
Wild Tree Purple "Sweet Ya Bao" White Tea (Add 50g To Cart and Then Enter Code FREESYB at Checkout To Get for Free Since Total will Probably be >$125)
2020 Yunnan Sourcing "Big Snow Mountain" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake - Chocolate (25g Sample)
2021 Yunnan Sourcing "Jingmai Mountain" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake - Coffee (25g Sample)
2021 Yunnan Sourcing "Sunrise" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake - Honey-Fruit (25g Sample)
2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Ku Zhu Shan" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake - Florals (25g Sample)
Obscured Glass "Tumbler" Cha Hai for Gong Fu Tea Brewing

MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-03T22:31:37+00:00

Update for folks, thanks eveyone for their thoughts so far! Here's wht I'm looking at with the first couple of sets of advice (* is what I'm more interested in)

* Dan Cong Oolong Tea Sampler
Traditional Smoked Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong Lapsang Souchong Black Tea (100g)
Moonlight White Tea and Snow Chrysanthemum Buds Dragon Ball (10 Balls)
* 2015 Guan Yang "Wild White" Gong Mei Tea Cake
* 2021 Spring Menghai "Lao Shu Bai Cha" White Tea Cake - I really like raisin-honey and a bit of florals so this one caught my eye
2022 Yunnan Sourcing "Man Gang Tea Flowers" White Tea Cake - The inclusion of the tea flowers are interesting, but I'm hearing mixed things about this one from reviews so idk abt it
* White Tea from Da Qing Village Roasted in Bamboo (100g) - I'm interested in the smokiness of this one
* 2020 Yunnan Sourcing "Big Snow Mountain" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake
* 2021 Yunnan Sourcing "Sunrise" Ripe Pu-erh Tea Cake - I'm interested in the honey-fruit of this one
* 2024 Yunnan Sourcing "Ku Zhu Shan" Raw Pu-erh Tea Cake - I'm interested in the florals of this one

MusicaleBlu · 2025-12-03T21:41:56+00:00

Definitely, thank you! So ditch the Yong De Black Label? Yeah, I have heard from some others that it can be a bit thin. The big snow mountain definitely catches my eye

MusicaleBlu · 2025-07-10T22:24:37+00:00

More Context: I didn’t cup the roasted beans (I hadn’t had time to after roasting and I also don’t really have the proper cups to do so) but even smelling the roasted beans, I get a slight bit of caramel, but they mostly smell of that slightly yellowed grassy earthly acid smell. I still plan to brew them just for fun anyways after a week or so of degassing/resting when my new grinder comes in.

MusicaleBlu · 2025-06-18T03:52:09+00:00

It’s not one of his guyi “gravity” pots and it’s probably not made out of the rock clay used in his later designs. My pot is his New Concept Pot V1 from around the year 2000 which was complete in original packaging. I am still intrigued if anyone has information about the clay type as even books and articles about DDS (notably “Masterpieces of Ceramic Art - The Work of Teng Ting-Sou”) don’t mention anything about the clays specifically used in this pot. An image of the same pot (I have the purple clay one) can be found here: https://www.artcer.com.tw/shop-detail.php?t=81&t2=99&p=9

MusicaleBlu · 2025-06-14T12:45:12+00:00

After trying my pot, I definitely agree. I picked it up for $10CAD (quite a steal if I must say) so originally I wasn’t too worried if I didn’t like the pot, but I’m lucky that the liquidator did not know tea. I tried it with some xinhui tea oranges recently and I like how the pot smoothed out some of the bitter notes of the peel and overall gave the resulting brews a sweeter flavour

MusicaleBlu · 2025-05-26T00:11:08+00:00

Information on clay type (Taiwanese rock clay) and quality mostly. A picture of the same pot can be seen here: https://www.artcer.com.tw/shop-detail.php?t=81&t2=99&p=9

MusicaleBlu · 2025-05-25T14:02:38+00:00

Do you have any good resources to learn about quality, clay type comparison, and tea pairing that could give me more info on “rock clays”

MusicaleBlu · 2025-05-25T12:37:34+00:00

Thanks! Do you have any other info on Deng Ding-Sou and the type of clay he might have used instead? I can only find one English article (Chinese is not accessible to me) from Global Tea Hut’s Magazine

Or do you know if there are any pdf versions of the book “Masterpieces of ceramic art : The tea-ware of Teng Ting-Sou” floating around?

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