Customers always ask: what is your favorite tea? The diplomatic answer is, all the teas I curate for the shop! You don’t claim favorites with your kids, do you?
That is not the case in reality. I rarely drink Darjeeling or Jasmine teas, never Ceylon or Assam, and occasionally other green teas. Oolong teas have enough range and depth and variety to provide all the self medication needed- that is, as far as mood adjustments, boosting energy, converting a doldrums day to a bright and cheerful one….etc.
Didn’t make it back to Taiwan at the end of May and early June for the spring oolong harvest, regretfully. Taiwan Oolongs have limitless attraction as being the most intoxicating tea there is, offering the ‘high mountain high’. This season though, the King’s Competition Grade Tieguanyin almost stole that title from the High Mountain oolong. It would fill the room with it’s fragrance- but there wasn’t enough to go around. Competition grade teas are invariably scarce, much like the coveted Dayuling. If one stumbles into good pricing and plentiful stock of Dayuling at any tea merchant- it’s guaranteed to be fake. No such thing as plentiful, or cheap, real Dayuling. Ours this year was from 2500 meters, and completely spoken for.
So woefully, my favorite teas are all taken…..
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