Apr 10th, '16, 10:44
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by wei301 » Apr 10th, '16, 10:44
Alex wrote:Just tried some oriental beauty in the lu wei fang pot. Wow! Brought all those fruity flavours and turned them up to 11 lol.
I have just tried some oriental beauty in this lu wei fang teapot after reading this comment :
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... sha-5.html
a bit disappointed because it muted some high notes I like about oriental beauty,
must be personal preferences.
I like the same tea in the 110ml (actually 125ml) Factory 1 Hongni Shui Ping.
The 75ml 1990's Yixing Factory 5 Panhu makes very good yancha. ^^
Apr 10th, '16, 10:49
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by jayinhk » Apr 10th, '16, 10:49
wei301 wrote:Alex wrote:Just tried some oriental beauty in the lu wei fang pot. Wow! Brought all those fruity flavours and turned them up to 11 lol.
I have just tried some oriental beauty in this lu wei fang teapot after reading this comment :
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... sha-5.html
a bit disappointed because it muted some high notes I like about oriental beauty,
must be personal preferences.
I like the same tea in the 110ml (actually 125ml) Factory 1 Hongni Shui Ping.
The 75ml 1990's Yixing Factory 5 Panhu makes very good yancha. ^^
Funny that we're all drinking Oriental Beauty today! I'm drinking mine in a crackle glaze porcelain pot I bought in Vietnam, and I had ripe pu erh in a big porcelain pot with dinner tonight (Cantonese food with the family at a restaurant in the mall next door).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEAYvXByCnk ... y=jayinhkg
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDGGJkMSChW ... y=jayinhkg
I've never tried OB in zini, but I have tried black tea in hong pi long and I liked it a lot.
Apr 10th, '16, 12:14
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by Alex » Apr 10th, '16, 12:14
wei301 wrote:Alex wrote:Just tried some oriental beauty in the lu wei fang pot. Wow! Brought all those fruity flavours and turned them up to 11 lol.
I have just tried some oriental beauty in this lu wei fang teapot after reading this comment :
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... sha-5.html
a bit disappointed because it muted some high notes I like about oriental beauty,
must be personal preferences.
I like the same tea in the 110ml (actually 125ml) Factory 1 Hongni Shui Ping.
The 75ml 1990's Yixing Factory 5 Panhu makes very good yancha. ^^
Yeah for sure personal preference. I think Akira's analogy about camera lens and clay is spot on. How do you like the pot?
Apr 10th, '16, 18:42
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by wei301 » Apr 10th, '16, 18:42
Alex wrote:wei301 wrote:Alex wrote:Just tried some oriental beauty in the lu wei fang pot. Wow! Brought all those fruity flavours and turned them up to 11 lol.
I have just tried some oriental beauty in this lu wei fang teapot after reading this comment :
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... sha-5.html
a bit disappointed because it muted some high notes I like about oriental beauty,
must be personal preferences.
I like the same tea in the 110ml (actually 125ml) Factory 1 Hongni Shui Ping.
The 75ml 1990's Yixing Factory 5 Panhu makes very good yancha. ^^
Yeah for sure personal preference. I think Akira's analogy about camera lens and clay is spot on. How do you like the pot?
I like the clay and the shape. I've never seen this shape before. The lid is large and wide, makes it easy to clean. I use it for black tea, very tasty! ^^
Apr 13th, '16, 05:14
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by Alex » Apr 13th, '16, 05:14
Yeah that's a nice model! I tried a whole selection of teas in the pot now. Certainly the more oxidized were better for me. Tried some Ali shan and some lush tgy green but both those were better in porcelain, even over my thin zhuni and hongni.However drinking OB from this pot is perfection for me and it's what I'll be using the pot for. Gives a sweetness and depth to the body which is just perfect to me! Very pleased! Got my wife to blind test the 4 samples and she picked out this Lu Wei fang pot as making the best brew of OB... Which is handy as we drink tea together all the time
Apr 13th, '16, 14:16
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by BW85 » Apr 13th, '16, 14:16
Alex wrote:Yeah that's a nice model! I tried a whole selection of teas in the pot now. Certainly the more oxidized were better for me. Tried some Ali shan and some lush tgy green but both those were better in porcelain, even over my thin zhuni and hongni.However drinking OB from this pot is perfection for me and it's what I'll be using the pot for. Gives a sweetness and depth to the body which is just perfect to me! Very pleased! Got my wife to blind test the 4 samples and she picked out this Lu Wei fang pot as making the best brew of OB... Which is handy as we drink tea together all the time
And all this time I thought you solely drank Japanese greens with all those beautiful kyusus!
Apr 13th, '16, 14:54
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by Alex » Apr 13th, '16, 14:54
Yeah I've just started drinking taiwan teas for first time in years. I don't own a lot of kyusus. Just a handful. I tend to buy them out interest and then resell. I'm like a collector that's too poor to keep the pots
speaking of which I got a couple of nice pots for sale in the teaswap section! :p...
Apr 18th, '16, 14:13
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by Psyck » Apr 18th, '16, 14:13
I currently own two yixing's. One is a 95ml Zini Shui Ping Yixing Teapot I bought for £60 from EoT last year that I use for sheng and the other is a Zi Sha from Teavivre that I use for shu.
I have ordered these two pots recently:
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... -ping.html
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... ui-ni.html
Any suggestions on what I should dedicate these pots to? When I bought them, I had a vague idea of using the three EoT pots I would have for - young sheng, old sheng, and roasted oolong...but I'm open to suggestions.
Apr 18th, '16, 19:38
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by LouPepe » Apr 18th, '16, 19:38
Psyck wrote:I currently own two yixing's. One is a 95ml Zini Shui Ping Yixing Teapot I bought for £60 from EoT last year that I use for sheng and the other is a Zi Sha from Teavivre that I use for shu.
I have ordered these two pots recently:
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... -ping.html
https://www.essenceoftea.com/teaware/cl ... ui-ni.html
Any suggestions on what I should dedicate these pots to? When I bought them, I had a vague idea of using the three EoT pots I would have for - young sheng, old sheng, and roasted oolong...but I'm open to suggestions.
It could either way really. Experiment!
Personally if it were me a big determiner would be if you are planning on filling up the hongni pot all the way or not since it's a bit big. If you fill it half ways then you could get away with using more expensive teas to brew with. If the qingshuini performs nicely with Yancha that would be my choice. But many seem to like the hongni's with Yancha. I enjoy quality zini paired with young sheng and Yancha so I'm not the one to discriminate in that sense. If you drink hongcha I would certainly try the hongni with that.
Nice pots, enjoy! Good going on picking up the hongni before they're gone. I've been itching to jump on a 170 myself for hongcha, but I'm quite happy with the ones I have now so haven't justified it just yet
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by jayinhk » Apr 18th, '16, 20:59
I believe the 175ml are actually 185ml since I have some pin zini pots of the same size. I've thought about picking one up for gaoshan.
Hongni would work with good, aromatic black tea. I'd use the zini for roasted oolong, the hongni for young sheng and the hpl might work with aged sheng or high fire oolong. My F5 HPL pot is still a flavor leech, but since it's a dragon egg I might have to use it for roasted TGY. I hoped to use it with gaoshan but I don't know how well it will do in that capacity just yet, even if it is quite high fired and the right shape. Of course, the tea chooses the pot in the end, so see what works for you! I have way too many shu pu erh and roasted oolong pots!
Apr 18th, '16, 21:42
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by impromptuandy » Apr 18th, '16, 21:42
I've been using the 170ml F1 for young/mid aged sheng, but that's because I wanted a bigger pot to share with people. It'd work really well with red tea or oolongs (I'll probably try it with some dong ding). Like LouPepe said, the size is an important factor here -- if you'll be using it mainly for yourself, 170ml is really quite big. Brewing yancha or old sheng in it would be pretty expensive.
Let us know how you like the F5 pot! Those definitely seem like a good deal.
Anyone get one of the private order pots? Those seem to be going faster even than the Lu Wei Fangs.
Apr 19th, '16, 02:45
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by BW85 » Apr 19th, '16, 02:45
impromptuandy wrote:
Anyone get one of the private order pots? Those seem to be going faster even than the Lu Wei Fangs.
I got one of the very first two private order pots back at the begining before he started adding so many of them
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCiszS9FaV1/
the clay of these first two looks a bit finer than the rest of the PO's added later and subsequently it was about twice the cost. Very beautiful clay though! It had an initial shine and became very lustrous after only a couple uses. Brews great sheng. Softens without sacrificing anything. I've been tempted to get one of the other PO's but have so far resisted that urge.
I imagine one reason they are selling faster than the lu Wei fang pots is because there are more smaller sizes available. He adds a 70-110ml pot and it seems to sell out within hours
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by jayinhk » Apr 19th, '16, 03:26
Just bought two 170ml F1 hongni pots. This darn thread has cost me a lot of money! LOL. I've bought seven F1 pots and one F5 so far.
I'm very grateful to EoT for making these pots available. I'll probably use them for the rest of my life!
Apr 19th, '16, 07:50
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by CWarren » Apr 19th, '16, 07:50
jayinhk wrote:Just bought two 170ml F1 hongni pots. This darn thread has cost me a lot of money! LOL. I've bought seven F1 pots and one F5 so far.
I'm very grateful to EoT for making these pots available. I'll probably use them for the rest of my life!
Whenever I fear that I've gone overboard in my purchasing I just have to read your posts and I'm reminded that there are folks like you with worse TAD issues than myself. Thanks Jay!
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by Psyck » Apr 19th, '16, 08:07
Thanks for the pointers folks. I have received the teapots today. Tentatively I plan to continue using my 95ml Zini for sheng, I will try yancha in the 105ml F5 Qing Shui Ni, and hongcha in the 170ml F1 Hongni.
