Tea Education — huang shan mao feng

Huang Shan Mao Feng often falls under the radar for most tea drinkers. Its soft flavor doesn't attract alot of attention. With not so much information on this tea available, it can be hard for tea drinkers interested in this tea to know where to start. While this is only one tea, a quick search through the internet will yield Mao Fengs in all sorts of shapes. This can be hard for people getting into Mao Feng as they dont know which shape they should be looking for. So today I will go over the three most common shapes of...

  In this episode of Mao Feng Mondays I look a little deeper in a topic that has been bothering me recently, teas on the market too early. Mao Feng is picked in late March at the earliest, with the best teas being picked early April. That being said, I am already seeing teas on the market in China and in America, so I went to see what was up. It turns out they are from special cultivars that are designed to pick early. The pick early and look very pretty and therefore make very good tea gifts, that being...

The final video of the 2020 tea season. I traveled to Hou Gu the site of a very popular Mao Feng from last year. Hou Gu is located in the core region of Huang Shan next to a monkey sanctuary. Outsiders, even chinese, are forbidden go see the fields as they are located in the sanctuary grounds. The tea last year had a chestnut note that I hadn't tasted before. This year I may have learned why. The night I was there I walked up to the tea making room and saw smoke coming out. As I walked in I...

JULY 17, 2017 Mao Feng VS. Mao Feng: A Lesson in Pick Dates I came to China to learn about tea, and I didn’t waste any time. I arrive on Monday, and by Tuesday I was out looking for tea. While I am always skeptical of teas found in local tea shops, Tunxi, where I am living, is very close to Huang Shan and close to three major tea regions. (Taiping Hou Kui, Huangshan Mao Feng and Qimen red). I knew if I looked around enough I could find something good.   Every single one of those shops has to do with tea.   It’s...

  As many of have seen I am trying to do more videos this year, really bring you in to the tea areas. That being said sometimes the camera cant catch it all. In my last trip to 大谷运, Da Gu Yun, this was the case. In this article I give you some more details of my travels including more information about the tea making and a couple corrects to things I said in the video. (The idea that maybe that big tree was an old tree for example.) Our story begins with me going up a winding road in...