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Shiuwen, the owner of Floating Leaves, invites guests to her tea table for good discussion and a pot of gongfu cha.
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Monday Jun 24, 2019
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Shiuwen is joined by our good tea friend Kate (k8star_p) to drink 1966 Aged Beipu oolong. There's a little history, stories are told, and very old tea is enjoyed. We hope this can help open the door to aged oolong for you.
Monday Jun 17, 2019
Monday Jun 17, 2019
This recording was from early May when we just got our Hongshui back in stock. We were so happy to have it back, because it is one of our great teachers! We talk about the tea, the farmer, the roaster, and move on to discuss how we go about practicing tea brewing with this tea.
Monday Jun 10, 2019
Monday Jun 10, 2019
Episode two of drinking high mountain oolong! This time not so blind, but kind of... You'll see when you listen. Also, the gang was a little tea drunk even before we started recording.
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
This episode Shiuwen drinks high mountain oolong with Mandy and Adrian (The Bubbly Couple). It was supposed to be blind tasting for them, but Shiuwen accidentally made it a double blind tasting! So for the first five minutes, nobody knew what they were actually drinking. This is the first of two sessions featuring new Spring harvest high mountain oolong.
Monday May 27, 2019
Monday May 27, 2019
Shiuwen and Noah drink a newly roasted Charcoal Dong Ding. As the tea develops, each infusion has something new to show us. This tea is a great teacher!
Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 2019
Introducing Chef Lee! Shiuwen and Noah drink Taiwanese Charcoal roasted Da Hong Pao with our friend and local gastronome in training Chef Lee.
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
In this episode Shiuwen and Shiuwen drink a very fresh batch of Dong Ding oolong. We talk about the feeling of when an oolong tea is "open", similar to letting a wine breathe or setting steak to cure. Dong Ding is one of our very favorite teas, and it was really fun to see how much it had changed since it first arrived.
Saturday May 04, 2019
Saturday May 04, 2019
Episode two! Shiuwen shares a two year old roasted oolong, made from the Budda Hand cultivar with our friends Mandy and Adrian, nicknamed the "Bubbly Couple". By the end everybody is tea drunk, as we contemplate the origins of Buddha's Hands...
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Our first episode! Shiuwen sits down with our bubbly tea friends Mandy and Adrian for a pot of Crimson Lishan (Lishan High Mountain Black Tea).