From the other side of the world he sat on his balcony. HD Video feed. Crystal Clear audio. Nice haircut, trendy glasses. A warm smile. The kind that immediately puts you at ease. 3 liters into his tea day, Tristan from @steepedapp was pretty much tapped out. I, on the other hand, was on my first tea of the day, hungry for that hit, and curious to know what he was drinking. 22 year old Tieguanyin. That’s what. I asked him to show me the dry leaf, the wet leaf, the soup, the packaging. Standing solidly in my perpetual-young-sheng-party I wondered as I often wonder, how much further one can take this thing. ——- Im used to shipping from China. You spend hours and days deliberating. You order. You wait. You make new friends and discovery new hiking spots. You watch your fledgling herb “garden” grow up right in front of your eyes. You get fed up with the hair in your eyes and get a hair cut. Or two. Shipping from Germany felt like one of those fast pass Disneyland passes where you get to skip the line. “I NEED to try that tea” I mentioned casually my voice only breaking and quivering slightly. The tears of desire hardly visible in the video stream. —— Yang qi. Yin qi. Turn taking like ballet dancers, like traffic flaggers, like rap battlers. 6 rounds. Leaves holding compression. Decades of storage stronger than hot water. Dark like heicha. Smooth like poppy petal. Notes like caramel burnt sugar on kettle corn. Never overpowering. Long lasting. Richsweet. Glands almost puckering in anticipation. Reacting like citrus. Popping like blossoms like iris. 2000 vintage tieguanyin from @nannuoshan —— #tieguanyin #agedtea #oolong #oolongtea #oolongcha #oolonglover #chaxi #cha #gongfucha #gongfu #gongfutea #teawares #oolongaddict #teawareaddict #justinotherteablog #vintagetea #teadrunk #teadrinkers #teadrinkersofinstagram #teareview #teajournal #teajourney #teasession #teaforone #tea #tealifestyle #tealife #teastash #teahaul #teamail (at 𝙑𝙄𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙂𝙀) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrNXhZOvgq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=