Bad news for BLC it seems

Congrats on the wedding :)

ps. thx for the BLC warning

Seems like I picked a bad year to try it for the first time. I got some from YS, I'm in no position to judge it compared to other years, it seems OK, but not stunning, but I didn't want stunning as I didn't want to break the bank.

Melinda

Dom> What a sad day. For my upcoming wedding we are planning on

Quality of this year's Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun actually is better than that of last year's.

Linda

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Which version of BLC is that? The green tentacles with white tip or the snale curly cue. After checking with my chinese book I found out I had some of the first versus the more common second you find in Chinatown which is really ragged bug eaten leaf. My second choice would be Yin Hao without the jasmine scent. Commonly it is labeled as Spring Bud. How did you find a gal with common interest in tea? My wife will drink anything so long as it isn't 'smoky'. Weddings are fun. Congratulations.

Jim

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Dom> What a sad day. For my upcoming wedding we are planning on

Snail-ish Curly-Q was what I was after but I was having a hard time finding any solid BLC this year so far. We will be putting them into single cup filters for in the gifts so the agony of the leaf in watching it unfurl will be lost no matter what... so either would have done as long as it was fresh and good tasting. I really was interested in having people experience something new and different and hopefully one or two will get something out of it.

As for her, I never pushed it much and beyond some Celestial Seasonings or some such she really had no prior tea experience. Every now and then I would pass a different/new tea past her and see if it got any favorable reaction. I'm a book nerd so we would spend a lot of time at Borders/Barnes and Nobles and she would get different flavored teas, hitting on Ginger Peach black tea. She came upon Chai on her own due to the spike in popularity for a while, which was her gateway I think. Then from there she got into oolong slightly, but then heavily when we came upon some amazing Shui Xian. Also, realizing tea could be better without anything added like sugar was a major milestone.

Smoky and flowery are right out for her, so is bitter. She did like the Puer (bolay sp?) at Mr. Tangs in NYC, but that was very mild and almost cut with oolong it seemed. No gaiwans or anything and she depends on me to brew it, but she does have her own Yi Xing so who knows where it will go from here.

- Dominic (let me know when the fun starts and my wallet doesn't hurt so much please) And as soon as the next refresh of the Macbooks happens I'm in, so for a longtime PC tech and Linux guy that's saying something.

Congratulations on your marriage.

Occurs to me that guests might be about like me, who has little experience with varieties of tea and goes by what's preferred commonly. Since there are several levels of the famous Lung Ching, or Dragon Well, I suggest a superior pick of that.

Possibly a gift of tea might be accompanied by a small, gift wrapped piece of the wedding cake, perhaps just for family? bookburn

Thanks, and the wedding bit wasn't included for congrats... just to explain the story :) I was trying to both take average people into consideration as well as a tie in to each of our tastes and a bit of story. I actually was between Dragonwell or Sencha but thankfully that is an issue of the past as Daniel from Teaspring managed to hook me up with some really good BLC. BLC is fairly forgiving and I think most people can brew it and enjoy it but it will certainly be different for most. The Shui Xian is very close to Chinese Restaurant tea so I think that will be more easily palatable.

Our cake is white with buttercream icing and a Bavarian creme and fresh fruit center... so gift wrapping that would be a disaster I think, but it is a good idea. We have some ideas how to finish it off, I'll post photos once the madness is over.

- Dominic