I don't know what the market statistics are showing but surely the cost of quality Oolong is likely to increase. Perhaps instead of promotiing our great discoveries we should be selfishly keeping them to ourselves.
A recent tea day topic concerned dreams, well I don't dream about tea - not at night whilst sleeping.
But sometimes whilst quietly mulling over my third infusion of an Anxi Ben Shan or a Yellow Leaf Dancong I do wonder IF ............
Taiwan seems far too developed in a 21st century sort of way, communication and marketing wise. Wuyi seems to be imitated to an excess and whether or not what is called Da Hong Pao is anything like the genuine article (whatever that is). But Fenghuang and Anxi County may just have possibilities.
.......... IF Only there is a master craftsman making tea just like his father and grandfather before him, but in a quiet backwater of a less fashionable village. Now this guy's tea is an elixir, but his neighbours make similar though not so good tea, and when the whole village's tea is purchased en masse, to bulk out a commercial blend, the elixir is diluted and lost to the world.
But then an opportunity occurs for the master artisan's tea to be made available in it's sublime unadulterated whole. The opportunity presents itself to me ......
and then the kettle tells me that it is time for my next infusion
