I don't know whether it is coincidence or not, I took 1 liter of karigane green tea everyday for 1 week+. Ended up whole mouth full of ulcers. At least 5 biji. So painful. Have stopped for 2 days already, hope will recover soon

wow! it is elegant, how much is this? where i can buy it?

Nowadays I don't buy new raw puer tea anymore. Mostly collect 90s since less smokiness and another few more years I can enjoy nice tea

The Host Ru Kiln
Precious Ru Kiln is the best in the world. Observing the color of glaze you can find it is just like the sun shines again after rain, mile and ancient as well as simple: touching its surface, you can feel smooth and exquisite just like beautiful jade.
The 10 th century A.D.(Song Dynasty ). A morning star is rising in Chinese porcelain history-Ru Kiln
Amount of treasures of Ru Kiln which can be handed down from ancient times is less than 70pcs, which are all rare treasures.
The host Ru Kiln shows its amazing beautiful by its meteoric, graceful and peaceful features as well as natural beauty without any flowery decoration.

Dongdao Ru Ware, the No. one Kiln in the world.
Dongdao tea tool (pots and cups etc.) are well received for its simplistic design, elegant appearance, a combination of simple aesthetics and noble character, looking from a distance you are amazed. However, coming closer, they are attractive and approachable. Its color reminds of the clear sky after a rain. They feel like jade ware, smooth and fine. The heritage of the noble character and ingenuity exhibited in Dongdao tea tools. Make the Dongdao tea tools objects of collection by the connoisseurs. Dongdao Ru Kiln ware tells people of a legendary history.

The First of Celadon & Ringleader Ru Kiln
Ru kiln porcelain had been listed on the top five famous Kilns ( Ru,Jun,Guan,Ge,Ding) in Song Dynasty, which had been praised as “The first of Celadon & Ringleader Ru Kiln” and keep the same until now. Ru Kiln is in the first position among all porcelain with exquisite base, stiff structure and glossy glaze color. Starting from Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty, Ru Kiln had been used in royal court, and kept in royal court warehouse being considered as treasure, which can compare with sacrificial vessels in Song Dynasty and ancient cooking vessels of Zhou Dynasty. It was also said that no matter how many treasures you have, it still can not compare with a piece of Ru Kiln porcelain.

Shape—simple and exquisite, pure and substantial
Shape of Ru Kiln porcelain is grand and generous, anciently simple and graceful, the base cliff, pretty and stylish. Exquisite techniques and making with charms

Being eminent above all others of the same kind
Ru Kiln breaks new ground for the future in the Chinese porcelain history. It is eminent above all other of the same kind, which creates new style of celadon porcelain culture, builds up a good sample for the porcelain of simple color in Ming and Qing dynasties and erects monument for the development of porcelain ware. Ru Kiln has elegant and quiet beauty like mild jade, which is solid, generous and lenient, which is exceedingly beautiful, solemn and quiet, simple and generous.

Being polished again and again, coming up with excellent product finally
The firing techniques of Ru Kiln are very complicated. The porcelain base is made with more than 10 kinds of mines after being filtered by tambours of 80meshes and 120meshes, sucked all the irons by magnetite and tagged into slop, then slop being put into mold. After being dried, the porcelain base shall be polished for 3 times to make it smooth, thereafter, being fired for 10 hours at the temperature of 800’c, later being polished for 2 times. It will be finished after putting glaze on porcelain base and being dried, then fired for 13 hours; the detailed procedures are 18 steps. The main procedure of firing is the procedure of oxidation reduction under 1260’C high temperature and get rid of oxygen atom from silicate. But the rate of finished product is just 17%, as for the excellent product, even fewer.

Color---cyan like sky, surface like jade
Ru Kiln porcelain uses carnelian into glaze, which has beautiful quality, graceful, clean and simple with soft color full of water sense. For the light glaze color, it is like broad sky which is called “sky cyan” : for the dark glaze color , it is like the sunshine after rain, which is called “pink cyan” : for the white glaze color, it is like shinning star which is call “moon white”.

Crackle---silk like chaeto, quality like gold
Since the separation of glaze materials (carnelian crystal), the ware surface appears beautiful small crackle like scale, the pearl shape crystal is around the bubble, just like morning stars, it is very unique.

Textural Quality---smooth like skin, feel like fat
Ru Kiln porcelain is soft and smooth, feel like Chi with transparent and fruit juice. When being watched, it is like the green of mountain full of trees, having the beautiful of jade.
The host Ru Kiln is ancient, simple and elegant, with average smooth sense, taking the excellent technique of Ru Kiln and soul of changing of glaze color, which continues the great reputation of No.1 porcelain.

Notice on Collection and Appreciation of Ru Kiln Product:

[ Fostering of Ru Kiln porcelain]
1.        When appreciation Ru Kiln porcelain, you shall wash the inner and exterior of Ru Kiln clearly to avoid any oil contacting with it:
2.        When using it, you can use fostering pot brush to moisten the surface of Ru Kiln by tea liquid, then appreciate the changing of cicada wing like lines(for the host Ru Kiln ware used for long period, the appearance of tea lines is normal, it show ancient charms ).
3.        After finishing using it, you shall clean all the tea-leaf and wash by clean water and dry it.
4.        Before the Ru Kiln is used, it can be put in dry and clean room.

[Collection of Ru Kiln Porcelain]
1.        Ru Kin shall be put in a room which is well ventilated, dry and clean room.
2.        After being fostered and appreciated, the host Ru Kiln will show its unique wise, the changing of its cicada wing like lines varies from each, which also makes each one the unique in the world. It is the best artwork which is worthwhile to be collected.
3.        The Ru Kiln porcelain shall not be keep without being used for long period. Feel the function of enjoying while using to appreciate its texture and tea mixing together showing the art sense.
4.        The person who collects it can feel the soul of culture by heart: making mud forever, tasting the great sample of art.

Wow. I don't think that you should get too serious on how to do a proper way to taste tea.

currently i just into tea. Randomly bought Lipton Green Tea at Giant. I drink it in the morning before breakfast and feel full whole day. LOL

There are many ways to identify quality of tea but I would be more interested to know how to determine whether that particular tea is suitable for aging. Maybe you can pose this question to Mr Hojo 

I have drunk liu bao tea stored here for more than 50 years and I must say it is better than some of the similar aged puer stored elsewhere.

Mr Hojo got it half right. Places like Kunming drinks raw Puer due to the weather there. There is no market for cooked or aged tea. Certain places in China do not drink Puer at all. Concept of aging tea is a very old tradition that is started out long time ago in HK.

As for aged taste, I suggest you purchase, drink them and then you can make up your mind whether it is worth to keep a tea for aging.

I have tasted oolong stored in a tin box for more than 20 years and it taste great. However, you should understand that oolong tea is semi fermented and also there are light and heavy roasted version. Vacuum pack may work for oolong but may not for puer.

There is 2 good english book on Puer tea by Mr Chan Kam Pong. It tells the history, types of puer, how to interpret the code (7542) etc. You can find them for sale on Purple Cane. Recommended. His blog http://www.cloudsteacollection.com/