As you said yourself in the end, it is the tea not the method!ethan wrote: In my limited experience, gongfu brewing usually is disappointing. Some tea just does not taste so good prepared that way; or, the use of much more tea only provides 1 or 2 more good infusions than Western practice. Yet, the exceptions to this rule are so pleasing that one should not stop trying gongfu. A tea session of superior oolong providing 6 or more delicious infusions w/ flavor changes etc.......!
Good tea prepared the Western way is just a waste.
I’d personally rather spend more money on less, but really good tea than drink loads of average tea.
Life’s too short to have bad tea
– and who knows how long there will be any good tea – with all the climate change going on that might change in a few years…