21 Tasting Notes

75

I’ve been drinking this tea quite a bit lately, almost to the exclusion of everything else — even my usual pu-erh. I’m particularly impressed with its re-steepability and its ability to take a really long steeping to produce a strong, fragrant cup without bitterness.

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75

Two cups, steeped relatively long, for sipping while sitting in the sun in the backyard while taking a break from work. Working at home is just the thing.

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75

Another round of tie guan yin after cinnamon braised pork and sweet potatoes. Both excellent.

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75

Two very large cups after a large dinner of home-made mah-po tofu with ground pork while watching a Shaw Brothers movie.

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75

Drank this after dinner instead of the usual tie guan yin. Not sure why, but it suited nicely — especially since there’s a scene in the novel I was reading about drinking a darkish reddish tea and telling pirate stories.

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75

A lazy spring afternoon drinking tea and reading a volume of T.H. White’s short stories. Four or five steepings, the third and fourth very rich.

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75

Tea and working in the garden, transplanting this and that, digging here and there. Then more tea.

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75

Two more cups after dinner — this time from the new batch. Yep, my tea order arrived yesterday and all is well.

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75

Only two cups of tie guan yin last night — this is the last of it until my next shipment from Seven Cups arrives. Hope it’s today.

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75

Today my custom pu-erh/lapsang blend fortified us as we worked in the garden, transplanting and dividing perennials and creating a new 10×50 foot bed full of daisies, monarda, salvia, lilies, and hostas. We worked for an hour, drank a cup, worked for another hour, drank another cup — until we were done.

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