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TKY + Darjeeling in same yixing?

by Pouvla » Dec 7th, '09, 20:34

As I'm most certain to soon get a drop ball pot from chens fathers shop I was wondering whether I could use that 1 pot to cover my 2 daily teas as they are pretty close in their process (as I see it)

The teas Im wondering would fit is the Tie Kyun Yan from funalliance which is a quite light proccessed one and the other is darjeelings blacks.

Would using them both in the pot (not at the same time obviously) break any yixing law/cause a cross over/mismatch in taste ie darjeeling tasting of tky and vice versa?

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Re: TKY + Darjeeling in same yixing?

by Proinsias » Dec 7th, '09, 20:43

Personally I wouldn't do it, I think the Darjeeling would eventually overpower the light tgy, but I don't think you'd be breaking any laws.

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Re: TKY + Darjeeling in same yixing?

by Victoria » Dec 7th, '09, 20:53

I wouldn't do it either. Ok with other lighter oolongs, but not with a black, no matter how light.

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Re: TKY + Darjeeling in same yixing?

by wyardley » Dec 7th, '09, 21:25

I wouldn't do it. These are very different teas, in terms of processing, taste, shape, etc.

Further, while I certainly know of people brewing Darjeeling in Yixing, I don't think there would be too many benefits - brewing in a porcelain pot or gaiwan would probably be as effective, and also probably more traditional.

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Re: TKY + Darjeeling in same yixing?

by Pouvla » Dec 10th, '09, 15:11

thanks for the answers guys, guess Im gonna use my old yixing pot to brew the darjeelings in as I dont got a proper porcelain as wyard suggests.
I must also say I thought that yixing was supposed to suck up some of the bad tastes and I was therefor hoping it was a good match for a darjeeling as some of them has abit much tannin in them for my taste (thus why I never brew them for the 4-5 mins tea vendors suggest but 2-max 3 mins instead)

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