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Tea Buying Guide for Beginners
2025-08-23
Is pu-erh tea better when it's compressed or loose?
August 16, 2025
As we all know, Pu-erh tea is suitable for fermentation products to drink. Loose tea ferments quickly, and tea cakes are resistant to fermentation. So which is better, tight pressing tea or loose tea? Today, Nanguo will give you a clear explanation from the following three aspects at once. Which is better, tight pressing tea or loose tea in Pu-erh raw tea? First, the essential difference between loose tea and tea cake: 1. Loose Tea: This refers to the process of pu-erh tea leaves being harvested - spread out to dry - compressed into a dense cake, then pressed into shape.
What are the differences and similarities between "Golden Flower" tea and "White Frost" tea?
August 16, 2025
In fact, many people are confused about tea's "jin hua" (golden flower), "" (moldy spots) and "bai xue" (white frost) in the process of buying tea, drinking tea and storing tea, resulting in unnecessary trouble and losses, even causing harm to one's body. So let's systemically explain what "jin hua", " (moldy spots)" and "bai xue" are.
How to choose Puer tea from Yunnan mountain tea? ( Characteristics of Yunnan mountain tea in Puer)
August 16, 2025
The tea varieties of the six main tea regions, namely Dali, Ban Zhang, Nannuo, Pasha, Mengsong and Bada, are collectively called Shan Tuo Cha.
Yixing Zisha Pot Special, Yiwu Dabai Tea Tree.
August 15, 2025
Yixing teapot from 2003, Yiwu big tree tea.
Yunnan Dian Hong Tea Price - Buying Tips for Dian Hong Pu-erh Tea
August 15, 2025
Yunnan Gold is a high-grade red tea, its unique quality, with rich aromatic substances inside, it has been deeply loved by many tea friends. Many tea lovers said that when buying Yunnan Gold, they find the prices are quite varied and unpredictable, usually don't know how to proceed, How much does the good Yunnan gold cost, is not more expensive is better?
Pu'er Tea Introduction: Menghai Bada Ancient Tea Zone: Zheng Langgu trees tea
August 15, 2025
It is famous for owning a 1800-year-old wild "tea tree king" on He Ma Song Da Black Mountain, known as the "living fossil of tea trees", located in the southern part of Menghai County which borders Myanmar. The area includes ancient tea trees distributed across two pure mountainous townships in Menghai County: Bada and Xiding.
Very fragrant tea is not necessarily good tea.
August 15, 2025
There's a common phenomenon in the market that good tea must have a strong fragrance. Is it really true? Fragrance is not necessarily an indicator of a good cup of tea. Tea and perfume share one thing in common, which is their fragrance. Let's take a closer look at this aspect.
What's the transformation process of pure Pu'er tea trees?
August 15, 2025
It's a romantic thing to experience the transformation of a genuine old-tree Pu-erh tea: in one or two years, the stimulation of flavor decreases; three or four years, the soup depth improves; eight or nine years, the soup color deepens, and the aged aroma is more pronounced... Today we will observe the transformation path of pure old tree Pu-erh tea based on internal quality changes.
Yunnan Ancient Tree Tea - a tea from Lantsang River (also known as Lancang or Mekong) area in Yunnan Province of China, with unique and complex fragrance.
August 15, 2025
Many people have a special fondness for Menghai tea. The biggest characteristic of Menghai (ancient tree) is "sweet and fragrant": the aroma is conspicuous, the fragrance of the mountains is strong. The aroma of Menghai tea should be used at the highest level of Pu'er tea fragrance, that is, floral fragrance, specifically orchid fragrance.
Talking about Puer tea's "heaping flavors"
August 15, 2025
When we are drinking pu-erh tea, we often hear the term "mud flavor" (dīwèi). So what exactly is this mud flavor? How does it form? In fact, many people who have recently started to drink pu-erh tea dislike this mud flavor and it becomes a barrier for popularizing pu-erh among the general public. Many people do not understand mud flavor and even confuse it with moldiness.