Tuesday TeaDay 5/12/09 Fave tea percentage?

[geeber1]

Wow, Victoria! Do you know what caused the tree to fall over? Did you have a windstorm? That looks like a huge mess and it's too bad your view and the habitat are ruined!

[Salsero]

In commemoration of the sudden loss of both Eric the Red and The Big Tree on the same day, the Gville T-buzz consumed the magnificent Chinese Guo Bin Li Cha Mao Feng and the incomparable Japanese Temomi (following the lead of Pentox the Magnificent).

We were all pretty much floored by these two exceptional teas. Of the Temomi:

• • It is made only by hands starting from picking fresh leaves in the tea field to kenading the leaves for the final
    process. Whole procedure takes approximately 8 hours. On April 19th 2009, 1.8kg (4lb.) of Temomi Shincha was
    made by 8 Temomi artisans in Shizuoka Japan. By following the enclosed instructions you can experience the same
    taste and flavor which the ancients enjoyed several hundred years ago.... It's the first time that this tea is available
    to the US.

[/size] I only mention this because it is sold out and I want to gloat.


Thanks to Pentox for discovering the Temomi and to Daniel Ong at TeaSpring for recommending the high grade Huang Shan Mao Feng.

[Victoria]

Wow, Victoria! Do you know what caused the tree to fall over? Did you have a windstorm? That looks like a huge mess and it's too bad your view and the habitat are ruined!

I guess the tree had a disease. But you could not tell really, since it was so full of leaves and producing flowers. There seemed to be no "event" that caused the biggest part to fall. Scary, as it could have fallen during a BBQ when the courtyard is filled with people. Or on a car, parked there for shade. It was fortunate it was overnight, and no one was hurt.

Enjoying a second steep of my my Soom Estate. Geeber, you would like this one too.

[spot52]

Wow, Victoria! Do you know what caused the tree to fall over? Did you have a windstorm? That looks like a huge mess and it's too bad your view and the habitat are ruined!

I guess the tree had a disease. But you could not tell really, since it was so full of leaves and producing flowers. There seemed to be no "event" that caused the biggest part to fall. Scary, as it could have fallen during a BBQ when the courtyard is filled with people. Or on a car, parked there for shade. It was fortunate it was overnight, and no one was hurt.

Enjoying a second steep of my my Soom Estate. Geeber, you would like this one too.

Hmm, too bad. Maybe they should have cut it down before it fell and could have seriously injured someone.

[Victoria]

Hmm, too bad. Maybe they should have cut it down before it fell and could have seriously injured someone.

We didn't know.


Switching now to Farmer's Choice Baozhong from Floating Leaves Tea.
Hoping my Adagio Spring Darjeeling sample is waiting on my porch step.

[Cinnamon Kitty]

I guessed roughly 50%. Right now, I've been on a Japanese green kick after getting my shincha so it is definitely closer to 80%, but there are times, such as over the winter, where my consumption of green teas drop to a much lower level, which evens it out to about half the time. Given my current rate of consumption, I have a feeling that another shincha order needs to be placed soon.

Currently in my cup is the third steep of Fukamushi sencha supreme. A heaping teaspoon of leaf to about 4 to 5 ounces of water gives the tea a wonderful, rich, tangy flavor.

Victoria: Sorry about the tree. It is always nice to be able to look out the window to admire the birds, but sometimes unfortunate things happen.

Eric: I hope you still stop by on occasion. Your down-to-earth posts are much appreciated.

[Pentox]

In commemoration of the sudden loss of both Eric the Red and The Big Tree on the same day, the Gville T-buzz consumed the magnificent Chinese Guo Bin Li Cha Mao Feng and the incomparable Japanese Temomi (following the lead of Pentox the Magnificent).

We were all pretty much floored by these two exceptional teas. Of the Temomi:

• • It is made only by hands starting from picking fresh leaves in the tea field to kenading the leaves for the final
    process. Whole procedure takes approximately 8 hours. On April 19th 2009, 1.8kg (4lb.) of Temomi Shincha was
    made by 8 Temomi artisans in Shizuoka Japan. By following the enclosed instructions you can experience the same
    taste and flavor which the ancients enjoyed several hundred years ago.... It's the first time that this tea is available
    to the US.

[/size] I only mention this because it is sold out and I want to gloat.


Thanks to Pentox for discovering the Temomi and to Daniel Ong at TeaSpring for recommending the high grade Huang Shan Mao Feng.

Yup Temomi is some gooooo stuff man. My last packet is safely inside a lockbox until I can decide when to enjoy the wonderfulness that is Temomi.

[spot52]

Hmm, too bad. Maybe they should have cut it down before it fell and could have seriously injured someone.

We didn't know.

I know; I can read.
I was simply stating that maybe it should have been cut down earlier.

[Salsero]

Yup Temomi is some gooooo stuff man. My last packet is safely inside a lockbox until I can decide when to enjoy the wonderfulness that is Temomi.

My only regret is that I didn't order two or three of them ... somehow it just never sunk in that it was being sold in lots of one session each!

Oh well, maybe it will be around again next year. The spent leaves were amazing to look at and to eat!

[Chip]

Oh well, maybe it will be around again next year. The spent leaves were amazing to look at and to eat!

I did not have it this year, but last year, yeah, the leaves looked amazing even after many steeps, all perfect leaves.

Earlier. moved on to Alishan from Adagio. This is such a perfectly approachable oolong and was great to share with DW.

And finishing the TeaDay wanting MORE tea. Oh well.

[cherylopal]

Victoria- sorry to hear about the tree- any chance to get a piece or is it all chipped? i'm thinking that you could get some of the tree carved or soemthing into some sort of tea related item/decoration and then have a memento-

[Victoria]

Awww thanks Cheryl. No I didn't think of that, it's all gone.
But I did save a seedpod to dry and keep in my office.
It is sad to look at the stump there, almost 4' across and to
think it is still alive; just now dying slowly.

[JP]

While I keep returning to the teas that I really like, I still experiment about 20% of the time.