I'm going to wait to hear from anybody else before my two cents worth. Forget Gongfu and assume multiple infusions at some ideal brewing temperature suggested by tea websites. I think it an interesting statement contrary to assumed conventional wisdom of at least multiple infusions. I toss it out as a challenge for the two thumbs up testimonial crowd of those concerned about quality. Don't be shy my answer is a guess too.
Jim
I wished there were more guesses. That's what happens when inquiring minds want to know and it isn't a rehash of old threads and is contrary too most brewing instructions at the websites. So my simple answer is 'Aesthetics' which ties in with the author's idea of 15 minutes brewing times for Yinzhen at 185F (which I forgot to mention) and I'll add a glass pot to support my argument. Obviously we aren't talking about optimum taste starting with a temperature only suggested for multiple infusions. The only two others suggesting the same approach as the author will understand my answer while the singular to each his own won't. For anybody else it is just a breeze carassing the scalp.
Jim
That's exactly ((1450*1.85)/1000)*100 times more expensive than my everyday cuppa or the mathematical approximation it is so expensive, so rare, you can only guess. I'll take your word the taste is even better. You can always tell the walking billboards who argue a cheap BMW is a better car than an expensive Mercedes. They're the same ones giving testimonials about expensive bargains from websites because we're too stupid to know the difference between pretender and contender. I bought a used 73 International Travelall after watching Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon which I used everyday for 20 years. I let it sit idle for nearly a decade because I was too cheap to buy a master brake cylinder. One day a surveyor shows up and we put in a new battery after fixing the brakes and squirting some oil in the eight cylinders of the 392 he drove it away after starting on the second crank because we had to reseat the primary and idle jets because they leaked after the first cranking start. I'm sitting in a seminar in the late 80's listening to some yahoo blowhard economics professor explain why IH went out of business. I came up after the lecture and told him I was still driving one and it was sitting outside. That ladies and gentlemen is quality without the bucks and it wasn't in the shop constantly like a Jaguar. So when someone starts waving the $$$'s in your face and talking about website quality it is nothing more than admitted self indulgence for the masses.
Jim
Michael Plant wrote in message news:...
Tea Companion by Jane Pettigrew. She is going to attend the tea convention in Los Wages. It's out of print but you can find it on the Internet. It's in association with Mariage Freres and my impression nothing more than a fancy catalog with pretty pictures of teas you've supposedly never seen for example Yinzhen which all of us stock. BTW I didn't think anybody's favorite website would show up so you can still place your orders at midnight because the Shopping Cart never sleeps.
Jim
I'm going to use the red mixed clay one for formosa oolongs. I haven't decided what to do with the green one yet, but I need one for Puerh. I'm not sure if it is the best pot for that kind of tea though. I will think about it some more. For the moment it is just standing on a shelf in my kitchen, looking pretty...
Lars
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