Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Winter Fuel

So winter is in full force with much snow and its been very cold, so I have been trying to keep warm with some of the more aged sheng that I have...
I did a lot of sampling this past year and did make a few buys.
The first I will post about is the 2003 Xiaguan 8653 discus from finepuerh.com.
Nice bright orange liquor
Testing out the Duanni Xishi 125ml

I found it to be very pleasing just starting to get some aged feeling and flavor to it,
and at a low enough price to be affordable. Smooth honey, wood, leather flavors with little bitterness and a good mellow chi feeling. A nice dry stored tea that is very drinkable. They are now sold out as it looks like someone bought whatever they had left. I am lucky that I got my hands on 2 of these as I really enjoyed it.
Seems that in just two years the prices of any decent tea is steadily rising. 
Especially anything with a famous brand name even if the tea is not even that good. 
I had a lot of samples that were just not good and the prices were still ridiculous. 
I did try a few that I liked and when I wanted to order the price was double than when I ordered the sample!
Then others I liked were sold out when I tried to order a cake.
These good samples that are no longer available I will just save for a special session.
Enjoy and drink some older or darker teas to keep the chi warm till we see signs of spring.
Ready for sparring!
On the Kung fu side of things my wife and son have been training with me now for about half a year at our school and they are doing very well. Both competed in a tournament and did very well. 
My wife placed first in form and my son placed first in sparring and second in form, he is 6 years old.
I am super proud and happy that they are training with me now.
Train hard and drink good tea!

5 comments:

  1. I love your blog and your posts, from your sparring kid to your elm bonsai and of course pics and thoughts on tea and tea-ware! please keep it up! some of us, meaning myself, dont even know who this hobbes fellow is of which you speak so keep writing please!

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    1. Thank you for your kind words, I will try to start writing more again. Have a lot of reviews to do but no time...

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