How time flies …
I started blogging quite late but what sometimes feel like a blink of an eye I am now into my 10th year. Hitting the milestone puts me in a reflective mood, ironically more so than the 2 decades of being a puerh tea collector. I believe the reason being, blogging allows me to organize my thoughts and think more clearly and deeply about the issues that I encounter. Time and experience has reinforced my belief that the category of age puerh tea is one of the most challenging to get into and understand. In part the amazing breadth of diversity and constant changing nature of age puerh require considerable time to get to know and become familiar. The last decade has seen puerh tea as a product become increasingly more commercialize with new and modern productions going off on a tangent from traditional norms. Furthermore rising inflation, energy and labor costs makes for worrying times. With this in mind I wanted to commemorate the 10th Blog Anniversary by putting together a “Special Listing” aimed at making age tea more accessible to drink, learn and enjoy! The selection of age tea comes from a previous era in tea production (Pre-2004). It is a time period that remains my primary focus and one that is fast disappearing into what will only appear in the history of our memories.
