Tuesday TeaDay 9/30/08 Fave tea of the month?

[jazz88]

Sal, what a great image! Love the contrast and the colors. Is it Totoro image on the vase?
Chip, sorry about your mom, I hope she feels better soon.

Voted Shri Lanka.
Drinking Rose Tea – really cheers me up. Rose scent is one of my favorites.

[olivierco]

Keemun Mao Feng Imperial just after dinner

[Cinnamon Kitty]

I will have to go with Japan for this month. I was enamored by some sencha from a local shop until I ran out of it. Now I am counting down days until I go back home and can get more.

Chip, sorry to hear about your mother. Hopefully she will get better soon.

In my cup currently is Three Cup Fragrance Green tea from Enjoying Tea. It is definitely better than my earlier experiment of seeing what would happen if I upped the water temperature for White Peach. That didn't turn out too great, but the green tea is tasty.

[Chip]

Thanx Sal, Chamekke, Olivier, Jazz, and Cinnamon Kitty!

I just finished a very nice Assam white that really impressed me. It was fruity, sweet and of decent body. It had been at least several years since my last Indian white, they were really just trying to figure out how to manufacture whites ... and were not too good. This is a sign of excellent progress.

A Darjeeling white would be a nice one to try next.

[Salsero]

Is it Totoro image on the vase?

Thanks, Jazz. The image on the Welch's grape jelly jar is Tokepi, another distinguished Japanese. Sometimes I think the Japanese archipelago must be inhabited primarily by anime characters downing sencha and whisking gyokuro.

After three infusions of Indian grocery store orthodox Assam, now in my cup: Yang Yan Gou Qing (one of the never ending list of Chinese greens) grandfather style at work. The dry tea looks like tiny, stiff and hard knots but brews out to gorgeous miniature leaf sets with a bud and one or two dinky leaves. I just can't imagine how they harvest this stuff. It must be really labor intensive. Each little bag is like a work of art.

[edkrueger]

I'm loving a Formosa lapsang right now. Which happens to be what I'm drinking at the moment.

Where did you find that?

[auggy]

Brain dead today. I voted Japan but other than the lovely session I had day before yesterday with some sencha that really hit the spot.

[caligatia]

I'm loving a Formosa lapsang right now. Which happens to be what I'm drinking at the moment.

Where did you find that?

Upton Tea. I found it completely by accident. I was looking under Formosa for oolongs and spotted the lapsang souchong. The catalog says it's smokier and mellower than most LS. I've only tried a few kinds of LS, so I'm nowhere near an expert, but I think the catalog's right. It's become my tea for when I really want to relax and feel good. I keep my intake to one or sometimes two cups a day, because I really like it and don't want to get sick of it.

[leiche]

Chip, all my best to you and your ailing mother!

Chinese oolong, all the way. I'm a sucker for Wuyi yancha. Having some Qi Zhong this afternoon, hoping to chase away another cold.

Sal, your photo is gorgeous! I love the vivid green of matcha so much.

[Chip]

Thanks, leiche. But to chase the cold away, you need steamed Japanese tea.

Gyokuro, Yame, O-Cha. Very nice.

I am surprised to see the voting today. Japan is close to China. India and Taiwan are doing pretty well, too.

[leiche]

But to chase the cold away, you need steamed Japanese tea.

Except that, much like full-acid orange juice, steamed Japanese tea generally upsets my stomach!

[henley]

Hmmm, I think I will go with Japan, ftw!

I'm sure everyone is sooo surprised.

So guess what? I think I have to vote for India this month. Darjeelings were my main focus this month.

This one actually is a surprise!

The flowers are Swamp Sunflower...

Thanx for the info! There are some wild ones blooming near my house but didn't know what they were. May have to sneak across the road & pick some.

Golden Monkey & Wuyi Oolongs are still my favorites so have to vote China again this time. Speaking of, had Golden Monkey w/bfast this morning. Have to wait & see what tea I'll have this evening.

Made an interesting discovery yesterday--mixed Teavana's Formosa Nut Oolong (from kymidwife) w/Oolong #8 for bfast. The hot tea was just so-so but after it was cold, it was quite tasty. Made a pitcher of it iced before leaving home this morning & enjoying a glass now. It's quite refreshing for this 85* Fall day.

Chip, hope your mom is better soon.

[kymidwife]

I think I have to vote for India this month.
Darjeelings were my main focus this month.

Wooohooo, me too! I am still lovvvvvvving my oolongs and growing in appreciation of my greens, but this has been a Darjeeling month by a landslide. I got some amazing samples from Salsero (thanks!) and also wiped out some Darjeeling Puttabong that Auggy and I both bought from Teavana... and some other darjeeling from Upton... and some Oooh Darjeeling from Adagio.... and I am in love with them all. Can't wait for some new harvests... can't decide which or what to order first!

Hugggs, Chip... sent you a PM.

Sarah

[jim109]

Posted: Sep 30th 08 5:14 pm

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Chip wrote:
But to chase the cold away, you need steamed Japanese tea.


"Except that, much like full-acid orange juice, steamed Japanese tea generally upsets my stomach! "

I voted Chinese because of my morning Yunnan. I did have a delicious Gyokuro organic from Natures Tea Garden that didn't give me a burning sensation in my esophagus like other greens have been doing lately. That "acid" feeling you describe!! Jim

[Chip]

More thanks, this time to Henley and Kymidwife.

Looking for an evening tea. Hmmm.

Interesting leiche and jim. Japanese green teas seem to have greatly assisted my acid reflux disease. I do remember it was a bit of an adjustment.