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The Tea Gods delivered....Baozhong.

Over twenty five years ago a Chinese history professor of mine gave me a sample of unlabeled tea of unknown origin. I have been trying to find the tea again and at last the Tea Gods heard my plight and delivered. The tea was Formosa Baozhong. It arrived today from Generation Teas (good Tea, hate the name). Maybe not the exact tea, different year, different field, global warming, close enough I won't complain.

I must have tried forty or fifty different teas over the years mostly from the occasional Chinese market I would shop in as well as from Ten Ren and Upton and pester this forum too but it was persistence and dumb luck. On the way I added a few teas to my "A" list. Tieguanyin Gold Oolong also from Generation Teas as well as Silver Tips Imperial from Upton.

Bill Lubarsky

P.S.

Information from this group helped a great deal in discovering the teas I have now. What do you do for an encore? Any favorites of yours to try?

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lubarsky
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No kidding. A baozhong (also "pouchong") was my first really good Chinese tea also. It can be just astonishing in flavor and taste if it is good. The downside is that prices of good pouchongs are pretty high.

My introduction was from a colleague of mine. His Taiwanese student gave him a can of good baozhong from Wen Shan County. He is a good English breakfast tea type, which this definitely wasn't, so he gave it to me surreptitiously. I honestly can't tell you the brand because it doesn't appear in English or, according to students, in Chinese. Just "Wen Shan Pouchong". I show the can to other students and they get their mothers to buy me more (several mothers have apparently approved of my taste). But other good Taiwanese pouchongs match it.

In the U.S. I have gotten decent pouchong at Ten Ren, but am suspicious about their business practices and the knowledge of some of their staff. I have gotten great stuff from Shan Shui Teas,

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, run by Brian Wright (no connection) along with good service.

If you like pouchong you might try dung ding oolongs which, though slightly more oxidized, have a similar flavor. I'm drinking some now.

Oh yeah. On all these teas, infuse multiply. You get lots of different flavors and the price per cup goes way down.

Have fun,

Rick.

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Rick Chappell

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"> No kidding. A baozhong (also "pouchong") was my first really good

Boazhong = Pouchong?

I have had several Pouchongs from TEN REN and UPTON but nothing tastes like this. I remember this intense aromatic quality that gets right up into your nose and a very long finish ending up with a hint of the vegetal quality of Dragon Well. All this time I have been drinking Oolongs and various Tekuanyins. I have had several Tung Ting teas none was outstanding.

Bill Lubarsky

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lubarsky

Yes, if you make that "Baozhong".

I've had Ten Ren's cheapest Pouchong, and I agree, it's nothing like that, but believe me, good Baozhong is gorgeous.

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

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