Friday TeaDay 3/20/09 A matter of taste?

[acdidion]

50% because that's what I have left. Well no I planned that and smell goes with taste and I gave that a 40% so smell and taste combined are a large majority of my tea experience.

[chad]

I voted 100% because if a tea is "nasty" I won't try it again. However, if a tea is "interesting" I'll usually give a "clinical trial" over serveral sessions...so if that sounds conflicted???

Pai Mu Tan in the mug today.

[Smari]

I voted 100% because if a tea is "nasty" I won't try it again.

I'd have to agree with this. However, I voted 90% because I need smell somewhere in there, too.

Going to drive back home to pick up my tea tin so I can enjoy a ginger peach oolong for the rest of the day at work. I can't stand a day without any tea.

[Victoria]

Oh I love the sounds of tea making. I love to hear the sound of teaware tinkling! The glass or porcelain cups the sounds of the preparation; vacuum bags
opening, the water boiling, the pouring sounds, the tea pot lid, I love it all.

In my work cup this morning: Floating Leaves Tea - Baozhong

[Pentox]

I voted 40%. Taste is paramount, but the sum total of everything still needs to = 100%.

Today:
Adagio Ali Shan

[Chip]

Taste, hmmm, running low on percentage points. Since taste is also greatly enhanced by sense of smell, I will borrow from the sense of smell and say 30% which sounds low, but in the whole entire tea experience based on the 5 senses, that is probably about right for me.

Perhaps because I virtually never have bad tasting tea, it is downplayed a bit. I am sure bad tasting tea would ruin the entire expereince, but it just virtually never happens to me.

Started the TeaDay with Gyokuro Yame from Zencha mixed with a some sweet gyokuro from Sal. Came out great and tasted amazing. SweeTea enjoyed it a great deal. Pyrit almost seemed to want some, but I suspect she was there for belly rubs.

Next up. Fukamushi Supreme from O-Cha, delicious.

[Susana]

Happy 1st day of Spring! In Milwaukee it does not feel like it (so someone go smell a flower for me!).

Well, considering I started my day with Sencha Sakura, I would say the sweet, delicate and floral aroma has soooo much to do with the mind altering experience that this tea brings me. It makes me dream of strolling in Japan. I smell today's experience. My favorite is sneaking a smell after decanting! mmmm

[Intuit]

All I have left to allot to the most important character - taste - is 40%. Realistically, taste is heavily influenced by memory, odor, sight, sound and even feel (heat/temperature is a sensory input).

Calming herbal tea in the cup. Something a bit more tealike coming up.

The robins are back in my yard, the sun is playing hide and seek with another storm front and the weeds are staking their claim in gravel and grass as Spring arrives in the PNW.

TGISandF.

[auggy]

I'd say about 60% for taste. It + smell = 99% of my tea experience. But technically I voted 10% for visual so I guess my tea experience is 110%. I'm special.

Forever Spring in my cup this morning. Nothing at the moment and I'm really wishing I had some.

Time to go home yet?

[hooksie]

My Reasoning is a little unique. Adding up the percentages with Chip's method means I experience 150%. I haven't been considering it like Chip has been.

it starts with smell being so much a part of taste. I distributed as:

10% touch
10% sight
50% smell
80% taste

The key is my taste and smell overlap. 50 out of the 80 percent taste gets also goes to smell.

Yup, I just couldn't keep it simple.

[brlarson]

40% for taste
50% for smell
<10% for sight
<10% for touch

Tie Luo Han this morning and O-Cha Yame Gyo for lunch.

[Pentox]

Methinks most people here are bad at math.

[Shelob]

Methinks most people here are bad at math.

+1 Pentox...it is a good thing this is not a math test as I fear most of us would fail resoundingly!

Also, if this would be a contest entry form, many would be disqualified by not following the simple directions

[saretta]

Methinks most people here are bad at math.

Ops... I knew it before, I'm seriously bad at math... maybe my total is a little bit beyond 100%
Anyway "taste" (together with aftertaste sensations) is very important to me, it sums up the whole process of tea experience, it gives an order and a reason to all other elements, both in a positive or negative sense!

Today Ali Shan Cha AAA 2008 from Teaway in my Yixing and cup

[Pentox]

I find the people who voted 100% for taste somewhat amusing as well. Wouldn't that mean that if you had a tea that tasted sublime, but smelled like a mix of sulfur, rotting flesh, and chlorine you'd still love the stuff and drink it regardless?