Re: Mystery tea

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The ropes shape description might fit to some kind of "Kuding cha" (Kuding tea). This kind of herbal tea is produced with a plant of the same genus of Mate called "Ilex kudingcha C. J. Tsang". It gives a very pale and intensely bitter liquour. It is apreciated for its cooling and depurative effect. LZ

I bought a version of this herb from Generation Tea, and it is NOT intensely bitter.. only very slightly. I find it rather refreshing.

N.

The batch I bought from Silk Road will probably be my standard of bitterness for the foreseeable future.

/Lew

Ah.. Silk Road, the company that really doesn't care much about selling tea. ;)

N.

Yet he does make a slight effort to sell some of it.

N.

Actually it may be more fair to say that he cares about doing commerce with tea-vendors instead of the general buying public, since his teas are featured in nearly every online tea-shop in the USA, much as Rishi Tea cares much less about selling to individuals than institutions. Who can blame either of them? The money is in wholesaling, not retailing.

N.