First Puerh experience

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Good!!! More Pu'erh for me! BTW, at least he hates Pu'erh in a highly literate sort of a way. Michael

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I guess this is as good a place as any to suggest that this whole discussion is a profound waste of extraordinary talent all 'round. Well, Dog, we

*could* make an exception in your case. Seriously, keep it up guys. Entertainment goes great with my morning brew, which this morning is SRT's Oolong No. 37, supplied to me by the Dog himself. Thanks Ma.

Michael

Japanese greens are my mainstay. Occasionally drink whatever Oolong my wife has at the time. I won't turn away from good Darjeeling, if someone offers. And my tea budget is balanced out with dirt cheap Ceylon bought from a Lebanese-owned grocery, used for milk tea to be had with western sweets, which don't go well with Japanese tea.

Anything especially fine you can recommend from him?

--crymad

Ha-ha! Well, I certainly derive much pleasure from deriding Puerh. That's kind of liking it, isn't it?

--crymad

You ever see those charts that map out wines on the two axes of body and dryness? We need something like this for tea. "Body" seems an appropriate categorization of tea as well. As for the other dimension that Mike leaves unnamed, I suggest "Freshness/Decay". Naturally, Puerh is at the top of this axis of evil.

--crymad

This is starting to remind me of those romantic copies where the male lead and the ingenue start out detesting each other and succumb to their mutual attraction maybe an hour into the picture. So, when you fall for Puerh, you'll fall *hard*.

/Lew

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Yes, it is. Doesn't quite live up to the Jim and The Rosetta Stone matches, an inspiration to us all, but it does provide solid entertainment. I'm about to endulge in what appears to be the last of my Shan Shui Lan Yun from Winter 2004. It was quite different in 2004, lacking the softer squashy tones of the 2003 which I had come to like so well. I am given to believe that these Bao Zhong and Bao Zhong-like leaves are suffering experimentation in Taiwan, and so come out different year to year. (I'm not speaking of classical Bao Zhong...whatever the hell that is.

Michael

The really good thing from them is the Shincha at

, it is too late to get in on it for 2005 but

2006 is just around the corner. They offer 4 different Shinchas scattered every few weeks from the very earliest offered to the best offered. You can reserve your portions in advance and they will ship as soon as the tea is harvested. I did all 4 this year and was very pleased.

Mike Petro

"In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." Samuel Johnson, 1775, upon finishing his dictionary.