It's All About Tea — chinese tea

Duck Shit Oolong (鸭屎香 – Ya Shi Xiang) – is one of the most fragrant oolongs in the world: honey-sweet, gardenia-floral, and named by a farmer trying to protect his prized tea trees from thieves. This is the story behind the name, the tea, and what makes Phoenix Dan Cong so special. (Read more)

Yellow tea is a rare variety of loose-leaf tea, with the least amount of production and with very few regions producing it. For the hundreds of named green teas in China, only a small handful of yellow teas remain in regular production today. Being by far the rarest in China’s six tea categories, yellow tea, however, is an essential part of China’s long-lived tea tradition and is frequently featured among China’s ‘Ten Famous Teas’ list. (Read more)

Both Sheng and Shou Pu-erh start from the same Da Ye Zhong leaf, but they part ways at a single step – fermentation. One ages slowly and naturally; the other is fermented quickly through a process called wet-piling. The result: two very different teas. (Read more)