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Example of garbage tenmoku. Is it easy to tell? I do not agree with use of the word "garbage" here. These are pretty cups... +1, debunix; however, Leo's use of the word "garbage" provoked discussion which is not easy to do. So +1 to Leo also. These pieces are not rare. Seen for the first time & not...

.... suggesting that the quality of food in general was in direct proportion to its resemblance to a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. :) Looking through drafts that were never finished & posted, I am intrigued by this. I can only guess at what you wrote in the essay; yet, I assume that the word "goo...

mbanu wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 09, 2020 6:23 am

.... suggesting that the quality of food in general was in direct proportion to its resemblance to a peanut butter & jelly sandwich.

Interesting

What a great photograph, Bok! So evocative!

Does preparation in this pot, or type of pot in general, highlight what you like and/or temper what you don't like much?

Thanks for sharing.

nobody wins, except perhaps the shipping companies. I hope this is really due to a lack of flights and that it will eventually sort itself out. I have enough tea to get by until Gaoshan season next spring, if not longer. :P Maybe this will finally force me to drink those aging Darjeelings... In the...

Bok wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 06, 2021 2:46 am

That’s quite some sourcing skill - or sorcery, more like it.

And English is not your native tongue. Clever!

I like both smoked and unsmoked lapsang, but have found it difficult to find smoked lapsang of decent quality for many years now. I am so sorry to read that, Balthazar. I thought the reason I have not enjoyed smoked lapsang souchong for years was because I had developed my palate taking me past suc...

... I've been eyeing the unsmoked Lapsang Souchong of at least four companies, three of which also conveniently have Dancong. ... I am guessing that one of those vendors is Wuyi Origin. I drank some of Cindy's Lapsang Souchong (unsmoked) & liked it very much. (When I was into that tea, I would have...

I have been told from most every vendor here that Winter teas are top down and Spring bottom up, so I am quite certain that this is the procedure, ... shows plenty of Dayuling tasting sessions having occurred in the past few days. For spring tea, I wholly agree on being patient and waiting to see w...

Curious, why would you say this? Winter teas are harvested from the top down in terms of altitude (the opposite of spring) and generally they are available for tasting by mid/end of October. The harvest is weather dependent and not totally like clockwork each year, but it's usually always some time...

Life is really confusing. I see that consumers can pre-order dayuling for this upcoming season, a season that I imagine would not have its highest tea leaves picked for at least several weeks. Yet, the harvest of the pre-ordered DYL (100k = very high altitude) is scheduled a couple of weeks from now...

I am posting here to bring back this thread which I think is useful to read again starting at the top. Hopefully what I write is at least worth a glance. I started a packet of Shanlinxi after enjoying Dayuling daily for about 2 weeks. I found preparation for the DYL that made it very good for me, wh...

Toha0652, sadly, with climate change, the differences between the winter and spring harvest are becoming much less noticeable. +1 Fortunately, when we work hard at sourcing, sampling, testing, & experimenting w/ parameters, we are still able to find teas that provide what we want most seasons. My a...

Looking at some old posts for some insight & perhaps to laugh at myself a bit, I see that in November 2020 I was amazed that in writing about dayuling of Spring 2020 I had not talked about its great presentation of minerals & its charming note of mint. Guess what? I did the same thing this year w/ t...

I like this topic, Balthazar. Thai tv shows often feature villains who sit w/ a pot of tea by them w/ a tiny cup by it. Rarely do you see one of the villains drink. Perhaps the message is that if the boss wants to drink some tea, his own pot should be right by him even if he only wants a sip & if he...