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It's an interesting theme. I first ran across this question awhile back and reviewed a few sources of websites claiming to tell you what tea you should drink based on taking a short personality test (kind of the opposite of what seems to be considered here). It's funny looking back on posts from ear...

I've been reviewing teas from King Tea Mall lately, and in the past, and they do seem to represent a good value, consistent quality option. I've tried mostly their in-house produced versions so I can't extend that to commenting on their semi-aged commercial / factory tea versions. I've been thinking...

That's how I take it; that trying to get to some sort of level of experience wouldn't necessarily be productive. On the opposite side of that, I was just considering how people tend to do a more systematic exploration of broader and then more narrow source-areas of sheng. Even though that's quite li...

Along these lines I was just on the subject of middle-aged sheng for a couple of posts. It's familiar enough that people tend to drink younger (newer) or else older, truly aged sheng (a dozen or more years), but less in the middle, right? There would always be exceptions, and space for personal pref...

That last post seemed like enough but I might ramble more about themes here. I attended a version set up as more of a formal tasting once (oddly only once; these events aren't my thing), and there are pros and cons to that. If feels a little like a class, even more so than ceremonial. If the idea is...

I'm not near Toronto, close enough to on the opposite side of the world, but I can pass on some related experiences. I've held two open tasting events where I live, in Bangkok, with a limited number of people turning out for both (around a half dozen). Since I write a tea blog I've covered "lessons ...

I had an interesting experience in trying a 2006 Kokang Myanmar sheng yesterday. It's not quite there yet for aging, but definitely drinkable at this stage. I think the smoke, bitterness, and astringency will ease up further over the next 5 years or so, and tobacco and sweeter floral and dried fruit...

A discussion about tea flavor wheels in a Facebook group led to discussing the role of tea description. That implies "in tasting," and for some specific purpose, but I guess I mean in general, to consider why to describe tea (isolate flavor and other character aspects), versus just not doing that. B...

It's funny how answering a discussion thread from 5 months back is essentially "necro-ing" it. I'm as much of a generalist as one could be, although I have been focusing mostly on sheng pu'er for the past year and a half. It makes for an interesting case, since that was about learning more about the...

I started a Quora Space about specialty tea. I'm not sure why I'm mentioning that here, since it doesn't seem all that relevant to the most likely tea forum participants, but why not. Maybe the idea of what's out there for social networking channels is of interest. If anyone wanted to contribute of ...

Some of those related themes and opinions about tasting and review process keep coming up. A wine maker friend was on one extreme related to that divide, a staunch advocate of subjective preference being the best milestone for experience of wines, and the only truly valid one. That was even though h...

I just reviewed a Moonlight White that raises an interesting consideration of what those even are. It was a compressed cake version from Farmerleaf, so a Jing Mai tea. The odd thing is that it wasn't the silver and dark color that the loose versions often are, more brownish, so it looked more like a...

I get it that people like to have their tea experience travel with them, and value experiencing it in different places, but I often use trips as a good time to take a break from tea. Ramping down caffeine intake from time to time helps prevent that from becoming a concern, and the break makes me app...

I asked in an alternative medicine group and the results were what one might expect. One person recommended an herb that is said to have lots of healing properties, which probably aren't even broadly accepted within alternative medicine circles (Comfrey infusion internally and comfrey salve or poult...

That reminds me, I just sprained my ankle; any herbal inputs that would help with recovery? If camellia sinensis helps I've already got that covered.

Related to that, how are the mods here about deleting unrelated tangents?