What is Gushu PuErh Tea? CHINA TRIP 

Thanks. DM your address through Insta and I will send you a little care package.

ALEX! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, MAKE SOME ABOUT TEA PLEASE!

Oh my god ALEX this is amazing two of my favorite RU-vid channels colliding

Many thanks for your compliments. We enjoy the challenge of making these videos while we are sourcing and it is good to know that you enjoy our efforts. I am happy that you are sipping happily on that Amber.

Yes it is Celine on the camera and I fly the drone 🙂

Many thanks Ben, we enjoy the evolution process and always try to challenge ourselves to up the quality. Keto for life, I love how much energy it gives whereas before I was carb slouching after meals.

You know it is actually quite similar as that come up feeling. I swear it gave the world a pink hue as well so it was messing with my visuals a little.

We are considering it and I do enjoy drinking it with PuErh.

We did briefly discuss Kukicha in our Japanese Green tea video and we will try to film more when we are in Japan. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching.

I wholeheartedly support this suggestion. Kukicha seems to be a little bit neglected and a lot of well-known tea vendors (Mei Leaf is among them, I think) don't sell it at all. Thanks to Kukicha I can drink more green tea than is probably reasonable :-)

Yes YG2018 is probably arriving in about 2 weeks.

Here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AGymQ644cOA.html

They were both young PuErh. That is steam coming off the leaves.

When it Comes to Puerh there is no one on RU-vid with more knowledge about farming and stuff then William from farmer leaf. If you are interested in this Topic watch this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7lcBbMGaBO0.html . He is really cautious with estimating the age of the trees because its so hard to say. He also Shows Pictures of cut down old trees and explains why it's so hard to estimate their age by counting rings since it's in a Tropical Region the rings are not shown clearly. IMHO marketing tea as Gushu is totally ok because you can estimate the trees to be quite old, but selling it as a specific age range for example 500 years + is hard because no one knows how old they really are. Hope you find his Video interesting.

Only 200g and above are being ordered for raw.

Mei Leaf awesome, I’m sure it will make a lot of teaheads very happy 😃

Thanks. Our camera is 4k but my computer can't handle the footage so I have to upgrade the editing hardware.

the upgrade will be worth it! Also Don, you should write a book on tea it could teach so many potential tea heads out there! Are there any good tea books out now that you would recommend?

Thanks for the nudge, I am going to have to extend the budget and buy a supercharged computer. I get the books question a lot and to be honest I have not read enough of them - I know that seems a bit crazy but whenever I get a chance to read I prefer to read other subjects to broaden my scope and I am most often disappointed with books on tea. If I could steal a few months I would love to write a book on tea. Any particular subjects that would interest you?

Well it could be a series or really extensive single book; a book on all green tea, history of tea, brewing methods, water quality(still waiting on that video!), how tea changes your life. I know a lot of these subjects are covered in many of your videos, but I feel a book would give you more time say exactly what you want to in as many paragraphs as you'd like. You guys are also excellent photographers (lots of #teaporn pics!, and you're both so passionate about it so I imagine writing the book would be very natural for you. You're videos and articles are all very informative, but I think having it down in a book would be such a joy to read!

Hello Don, if I could also tell you my opinion, the book should just cover all of your experiences. How did you get familiar with world of tea (already there is a video - very interesting). Also short history of the origin of tea types, their specifics and traditions which are connected with those teas. Next there should be mentioned the tea processing - all the ways. It would be great to include some short stories about the people who are making tea. Who really are they? Now what comes on my mind is that I know less informations about the regions where tea is produced. In videos you usually mention your feeling about the place where you source tea, about it's advantages and disadvantages. OK, now back to tea - scoping, what are signs of good tea and low quality tea. What can we read out of the leaves? You could mention your experiences, tell us about the best teas which you have tasted. Even if such teas can not be reachable for us - I would like to know how it was. Also something about storing tea :) Why older tea can be better. How can I store specific types of tea and what can I expect from it. How to do it right :) I heard that if you store some wu yi yan cha in wooden boxes, it gets something from used wood (wood like linden changes characteristics of stored tea differently then walnut). Have you ever heard something like this? Well, I am already tired today :) so I hope I am not writing nonsenses. However - book remains for hundreds years, this is much better then data. I wrote short story short time ago (for some reason...) and I found out that when you start to write, it is difficult to stop until the story is finished, because there is usually lot of things which you want to tell. Another thing is that you do not have to write it all on you own. It seems that you have lot of people around who can also add something and help. It could be really interesting book and I would buy it definitely. Thak you, Jan

Dodgy Don Coming thru with the sneaky tea smuggeling :'D

I have no preference, they are both delicious. Raw is traditional.

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Don't like genmaicha, it's not real tea.....is tea mixed with rice (poor people's tea)

I enjoy Genmaicha especially as a pairing with foods - the nuttiness of the rice can be very complementary with quite a few dishes.

As genmaicha is mixed with bancha it is a great to drink in the evening. Bancha is often drank with meals so the suggestion of mei leaf is good to mix it with meals. As the taste is quite intense I like to drink it alone or with some dates or something sweet.

Amount of rain has a huge effect on quality of tea and can be variable. I have not heard of any issues with wildfires though.

Thanks - the matter has been on my mind recently due to our drought!

We have picked up quite a few seeds from our trips but I don't know where you can buy any legitimate tea seeds. I am pretty sure that you can buy tea plants in the UK but I forget the supplier.

@@MeiLeaf if you find out please let me know. And is it possible to clone a tea plant?

She is half Chinese and half French.

"She" is Céline by the way, it seems like you haven't watched enough of the Mei Leaf videos :)

why is it important to you ?

Wow that is quite a statement, I salute your boldness.