Anny TV Channel Reportage/convering Serie about tea ?

TV Documentary should be better...

Sebastien.

Ive come across some good tea video on the Internet. Your best bet is probably YouTube. Basically somebody in a tea shoppe talking about the teas they sell. I consider all the BS kind of romantic myself. I dont mind the trappings every time I walk into a tea shoppe. It pays the bills.

Jim

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Hello,

Thank you for the advice.

I have just got it and watched it. It is not bad at all. That's the first time I heard that somebody makes a difference between oxydation and fermentation. It was a woman in front a teaboat speaking about puerh. Most of the time, I can say, everytime I heard about fermentation which is not the way tea leaves chemicals change into flavor...

We had one documentary on a tv channel in France about tea for every body (we could say for dummies) which was about 3 major companies that sell tea... OWith one of them we have our local "David Lee Hoffman". His name is François Xavier Delmas but he is more like a good prototype of what we call "bobos" (bourgeois bohemian). So the French TV documentary was not very interesting about the way tea is done.

The "All In This Tea" is way from what I expect about a documentary, but it gives some interesting images about how the tea is processed for example.

If you get some interesting video on youtube that I should watch, please, send me urls.

I am mainly interested in oolong (wulong) teas, but I am open to green and puerh teas (recent discoveries, just a newbie about this kind of tea).

Thanks,

Sebastien.

Hi Sébastien,

When they are in the « Thés rares et éphémères » category, they usually are better than the other teas they sell.

However, as I am not a big fan of Darjeeling, I cannot tell you whether these ones are interesting. First flush Puttabong was the last one I tried (from another shop).

Once you have tried Imen's Dan Cong (teahabitat) or Akira Hojo's Phoenix teas, other Dan Cong teas look pretty bad.

Yep, they are great. Sometimes better than the ones sold by La Maison des Trois Thés. (His Yi Wu sheng cha 2003 is also worthwhile.)

Hello,

I will try a look at Teahabitat and Akira Hojo's Phoenix. It seems that teahabitat web site is down at this time.

I did not have the pleasure to go to the Maison des Trois Thés. This famous parisian place is too far away from home, as I live in Marseille. But, if I go to Paris, I will not miss this shop.

He sent to me a sample of this tea. I am afraid I need a lot more practice about raw pu-erhs... Definitively a newbie in this kind of tea.

The one that I missed was the oriental beauty of last summer... I will try not to forget next one...

Sebastien.

Hi Sébastien,

The shop is worth seeing. More than a thousand teas. Not all are still available for purchase, though. (You can also order by phone.)

Take your time, and enjoy the teas you prefer.

I tasted both 2009 and 2010 Bai Hao. The 2009 was definitely better. Sure I will also order his 2011 Bai Hao. I appreciate it.

Sebastien and Julien,

I enjoyed your posts to each other. Sebastien use tea as a Google search term then click on the Videos option. Julien éphémères and the English equivalent ephemeral is a term I use to describe White teas. Do either of you know about the Vanilla tasting teas from former French protectorate Madagascar. I understand it to be a natural taste and not some addition of a tisane. Any tea you can think of is available. It is how much trouble to get some. I always recommend Java tea from Indonesia. The emerging hand made teas from India, Africa are worth noting. I recently mentioned Old Lady from Georgia (former Russian Republic) I think in a class by itself. I have since discovered my local tea shoppe tasted Old Man. I said you cant have one without the other. The only other teas I think come in pairs are the raw and ripe Puers from the same factory same year.

Jim

Hi Jim,

Why do you use this term for white teas? Some white teas, of really good quality, can be kept for a few months.

Do you speak about roobois? or something else?

Is it as good as the Old Lady? Or a totally different taste?

It would be interesting to see what Palais des Thés considers éphémères. Supposedly there is a tea from Madagascar with a natural vanilla taste. I liken it to the Milky taste tea from Taiwan. Just recently I mentioned to my local tea shoppe there is more to tea than taste. They should have included the Old Man with the Old Lady. Pairings of tea are few and far between. In this case it could be slight processing difference or different time of the same season. I learned to go with what I find on the local tea shelves. But in this case I made my preference known just because I was so impressed with the Old Lady.

Jim

They consider "éphémères" teas which are not part of their regular lineup. Every teas that get a millesime (month/year) for example. I think they cannot get the same quality year after year for this kind of tea.

So, they consider "éphémères" tea that you are not sure to be able to find in their shops next year.

I don't know about your Madagascar tea as I am not very fond of black teas. If you tell me about natural vanilla tea and speak about the same tea coming from Madagascar, I can have a doubt on the "natural" quality. But it can be a good tea.

Well, the problem with dealers in France (but I think it's the same in other countries) is that they need minimal quantities to be able to sell tea and need to find producers who can give them the same quality year after year (they also need certificates....).

Foreign dealers, I mean thrusty ones, can spend a lot of time getting, let's say, 5 kilos of a very good tea which no French tea shop (or too few) is able to find or sell... And it is most of the time cheaper, or the same price, or not too expensive comparing to the French dealers (for a better quality). Foreign dealers get usually light trading structures (most of them are alone, don't get any commercial space except a web site...).

Sebastien.

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