Box from Upton's

Ive never seen PanYang in my stores. Even the Chinese characters ?? were hard to trace down. Ive seen the other grades Golden Needle, Golden Monkey, Golden Crab online. Anytime you see the word Golden in a tea it is going to be good stuff. Tea memories always tells me of how much we have changed. These days I am drinking blacks again after ignoring for years.

Jim

Last winter, a friend sent a gift parcel of Keemun Mao Feng from In Pursuit of Tea. It was great. ~grasshopper

UPDATE: This stuff isn't bad, it's just kind of tricky... I find that I can get a very good cup of tea if I use about four times the volume I would normally expect and a very short steep time. I can get two steeps out of it but not three. I am glad I found out how to make a good cup with it.

--scott

Part of the problem is that "Panyang Congou" is a trading name and not necessarily the name of the tea itself. All kinds of fujian blacks get that same name stuck on them.

--scott

I never saw the term PanYang till you mentioned it before a while back besides this thread. The general term for Fujian teas I see is Congou aka KungFu 'skillfully made' one leaf one bud. Im reading the Tea Shop Mystery Murder series by Laura Childs. In her first book Death By Darjeeling she first mentions Drayton her Master Tea Taster who is only one of ten in the US "It was in south China that Drayton developed his taste for tea and his passion for it, spending weeks at a time on the PanYang Tea Plantation in the high steppes of the Hangzhou region". Hangzhou is in ZheJiang province which is north of Fujian. Research shows that PanYang aka TanYang village is located in Fujian. She doesnt get too many things wrong when she mentions tea but I do notice it. Her dogs name is Earl Grey who she named after the bergamot scented tea imported from China. I think that was an English creation added after the fact. Proving when it comes to tea fact is stranger than fiction.

Jim

PS D> Space Cowboy wrote:

Thanks for sharing.