Good old puerh bricks

Apart from collecting teapots, Alans Museum has over the years, collected quite some old and aged puerh tea. As teapots are made sole for the appreciation of tea, it is meaningless to have good teapots but no quality tea to appreciate it with. It is said that the more you use your Yixing teapots to brew tea, the better they become in terms of value and texture. Of course, it is also said that a teapot should only be used to brew only one type of tea. This is because of the minute porosities in the Yixing clay that can absorb the fragrance of the tea. Over the many years of using the Yixing teapot for that particular tea, it is also said that if you just simply pour hot water into the teapot, you can still of good tea coming out of it. Amazing, isn't it.

 

Good old bricks of the late 70s

Here is some good quality puerh tea made in the late 70s. You can tell its age by looking at the thickness of the bricks, they kind of got thicker over the years. When hot water is poured into a teapot containing this tea, one can straight away smell the unique aroma of aged puerh tea. The taste is equally smooth and pleasant to the throat. Usually this characteristic features of puerh tea can only be acheieved over many years of storage of good quality puerh tea under proper environmental conditions. No wonder aged puerh tea can command a premium price in the tea market. New puerh tea is usually harsh and difficult to swallow. It requires at least 10 years of storage to refine its character. If you can keep it for half a century, definitely it will become a gem in its own right. It reminds us of the good old brandy and whisky, the older the better.