Anji Baicha is from Zhejiang province, but not from Anhui Province. I agree that both teas have very similar profile. Anji county is just bordered to Anhui province. I taste Huangshan fur peak almost every year. From my personnal experience, the pré-qingming harvested ones are quite floral, it lacks of brothiness that you talked about. And it tastes almost like a silver needle, with stronger vegetable notes. When we infuse it longer, it does express a thickness. Another thing about the préqingming fur peak is that it never turns bitter, the astringency is always in a acceptable range. The post-Qingming harvested fur peak has a similar profile to Anji Baicha and ressembles to Amber Mountain (that yellow tea from Anhui Province). It has that brothiness of a japanese green. The floral notes are weaker, but vegetal notes definitely stronger, and that similarity to Silver Needle dispears completely. In the end, it doesn't resist to multiple infusions. Personnaly, i would infuse a préqingming fur peak for 6 to 7 times, but a post-qingming one for 3 or 4 times. I would prefer a fur peak, which is picked around 5th April. So the tea would be neither too light, nor too vegetal, a balance between the both.

Its interesting to hear of a Chinese green tea with this kind of personality! sounds nice!

Looking forward to my first experience of this 😋

One of the ways I make the distinction about really really good green teas, vs lower grade green teas, is to compare it to fresh spring water, which is so alive and refreshing and delicious compared to stale water.

@MeiLeaf

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent analogy

Hurray, a green tea video! :)

Hey Don. What about a series where you rate teas from Amazon? There's a huge selection and I'd love to see how you'd rate some of the popular ones!

Lol love how you said some people do go straight to trying hou kui as a 1st of green tea hands up I am one of those people 😂 that was my 1st ever Mei leaf tea

Yay for Anhui Greens!!!!

I’ve had a few huang shan mao feng teas, including some “top shelf”, but always been disappointed. Even cranking the heat and using large doses just left me wanting. They did always seem to have a huge caffeine kick though. Very awakening and kept me up. I’ll give this one a shot and see if it’s more to my taste

@wanderingdoc5075

4 жыл бұрын

Where/how will you order it?

This is random, but could you do a video on tea and anxiety disorders? I remember learning about GABA recently and am personally a big fan of your Amethyst GABA tea, but what other teas/tea types have compounds to help with anxiety? Also, I recently started drinking coffee too (mostly for convenience since I'm in college), but have always found tea to be so much more motivating and energizing and in a better way. I would very much appreciate this video.

@FrF

4 жыл бұрын

Blue Redyns, I'd like to second your request for teas and anxiety. Interestingly, so far I have had no luck with gaba teas in that regard. Though I'll try Mei Leaf's gaba trifecta (Amber, Amethyst, Ruby)! I've had some success with ripe puerhs. Here are my eccentric brewing parameters: 1,3-1,5g/100ml. I make two steepings. The first one with 5-7 minutes yields a thick tea which I find very satisfying with extremely pleasant, calming psychoactive effects. The second infusion lasts ten minutes or more and is nice but noticably weaker in its soothing powers.

@jurajsebechlebsky4241

4 жыл бұрын

I heard that the L-theanine in tea helps with anxiety and teas with a lot of buds should have more of it.

@chrisladouceur4093

4 жыл бұрын

Give gyokuro a try

@canvasdancer8698

4 жыл бұрын

I too would be very interested in tea and anxiety disorders. Have tried the GABA teas and not quite doing the trick.

@user-et3xn2jm1u

3 жыл бұрын

I save my pu erh for when I need a bit of a stress reset. Pu erh helps with digestion, which for me helps a lot with anxiety. And, you can keep re-steeping the same leaves so many times, so you get to drink as much tea as you want. Anecdotal, but that's how it is for me.

Did you know a Green tea named zao chun lu? I cant find anything about it..does such a varaiety exist and is it worth buying? Which tea is similiar to this one

Oh dear already ordered a shipment of tea including hou kui and jade fire, might have to get this too along with some jade sword now that its back in stock

I was just enjoying Mountain Green which seems to be from the same cultivar. Is Mountain Green kind of a poor man's version of this Fur Peak?

@chrisladouceur4093

4 жыл бұрын

Mountain green is a more budget oriented tea. Not a version of fur peak, per se, but just the same cultivar origins

any recommendations for everyday teas? black, green and pu erh (raw or ripe) any recommendation is appreciated

@chrisladouceur4093

4 жыл бұрын

Little tong mu, long jing, nuzzle diver, Young Gushu 2020, fire Phoenix, 96’ tuo

@blueredyns7392

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like eveyone will have a different everyday tea based on what time of day you drink tea (typically), your own taste preferences, and the effect you're looking for. If you always drink tea at night, a green tea might not be your everyday. If you don't like the taste of a dark, ripe puerh, don't pick that. Every tea has a different effect (and you can look through those on the Mei Leaf website, though everyone has a different reaction) which doesn't even necessarily have to do with the type of tea. For me, based on time, preference, and effect, I tend to go for a GABA oolong, a black, or a ripe puerh, with white and raw puerh being close seconds. Raw puerh would be up there, but price point also comes into play. Another factor might be the amount of time you have to brew, so if you have to go somewhere in an hour, you wouldn't sit down with a puerh. I hope this helps!

I'm always confused with the term kill green. Don't you try to save the green colour by heating?

@theoldkid5725

4 жыл бұрын

"Kill green" is about destroying the enzymes in the leaves which cause maturation and oxidation.It is to preserve the green colour and trying to fix the state of the leaves after picking.🐥

@lars8523

4 жыл бұрын

@@theoldkid5725 yeah, but why would they call it kill green and not save green or something😂

@ItsMisterEp

3 жыл бұрын

@@lars8523 Kill I think as in "stop" and fix it in place. Sounds cool too!

@cpa314

3 жыл бұрын

I think its a direct translation of the Chinese term 殺青

Hey... Tobias

Hey, pardon my ignorance, but with more and more teas are being picked during the high peaks of COVID should buyers be worried at all when buying freshly picked like this one from April?

@brooklynslider

4 жыл бұрын

No you are safe. The virus cant live more than 24 hours outside of a body. So if it was on the leaf it would die quick. Also Huang Shan was not strongly effected by the virus (I live here so I know) by the time the tea season started everything was reopened here

@blueredyns7392

4 жыл бұрын

Don did a video specifically addressing this. Short answer, no. Long answer, kzread.info/dash/bejne/oImXk5OuqcWvds4.html.

安徽毛峰，