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The primordial essence of Da Xue Shan in YongDe County
he subtropical scenery of the Nanting River, from the foot of the mountain to the northern view of the main peak, seems to capture all the splendor of the world. Daxue rises to over 3,400 meters, opposite the other peak of the Nu mountain range, Xiaoxueshan. Karst severity alternates with the chromatism of the tropical…
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When Mahei was called Lù biān. Journey through the history of the village in the company of a 2020 Mahei dashu sheng pu
Travel 25 kilometers west of Guafengzhai, you will arrive in Mahei. This was the first stage of the ancient tea road on the journey from Laos to China. It is said that one of the original names of Mahei 麻 黑 was “路 边” Lù biān, “Roadside”, because Maheizhai is near the road leading to…
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Mahei, one of the best pu’er in Yiwu. But has it always been like this?
The rains of mid-April break the drought of Mahei, but the race to the true maocha every year does not stop, as well as the rise in prices has not seen truce since 2007 to date. Maheizhai is a village of Yiwu, in Mengla county, almost 3 square kilometers of woods and trees between 1200…
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Reaching the highest peak, where the air is more rarefied, where the silence of the place becomes a virtue. Tribute to Huazhuliangzi.
To the northeast of Menghaizhen we follow the dirt roads that lead to the highest point, the peak of Banna, between the fog that seems palpable and the city behind us at every point the eyes find rest wherever you look. The old trees covered in moss and xylophagous saprophytes draw attention, among the rocky…
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Epitome of Fuzhuan fermentation: Eurotium cristatum, the hero of Anhua
Despite my passion for history, anthropology and philosophy, my training background in daily life has always concerned scientific world; in particular agronomic and food technology studies have led me to be fascinated by microbiology of tea, which in the western world, however, is a subject with which we find ourselves dealing too little often. I…
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Drunk soliloquies about Nannuo in the shadow of a gushu
On a day when the cold morning breach seemed to have taken away even the most weak semblance of chromatism, and with this the already remote desire to conclude something at the end of a dull sunrise, I decided to make a tea session with this 2016 Sheng Pu from Nannuo in the hope of…
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Xigui, the other side of Bangdong
After talking about Mangfei, Yongde county, we travel along the G323 in a 2-hour journey through the pre-Western architecture of Heping village, passing Bangdong gardens, leaving Mangmai until we enter the wild forest to reach Xigui, the last village of the west bank of Lancangjiang. The roads are unpaved and where it meets the asphalt…
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Where does a real Lao Tie come from?
Anxi is where time dwells, where the artistic breath of Chinese classicism reverberates among the residues of the cultural revolution along the road that leads to Ganze, with the purplish sunset that adorns the skyscrapers of Quanzhou behind it. The landscape alternates the expressive intensity of nature with the works of human activity; where the…
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Geography of Mengku, a bit of history of the Shuangjiang factory and an excellent pu’er
Yunnan’s soil is complex, as is the climate in its multidimensionality. In a single region we find a tropical climate or a mountain one, in the chromatism that envelops the observer, the eyes find both rest and the neurasthenia of the course of nature in a landscape that seems to be the meeting place between…
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Bingdao, its aura, its mysticism. Maybe it’s all undeserved?
The price that Bingdao tea has reached has attracted much attention from Western countries, covering it with that mysticism reserved for the great names in Bordeaux or Burgundy winemaking, an aura that cannot guarantee that the taster’s opinion do not deform in front of it. But what makes Bingdao teas so? Where does the search…
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