After a long day's work, I was surprised by two packages from China. A few weeks ago, Hobbes kindly asked if I wanted to be included in two vendor tastings of 2013 cakes. I agonized for a few days in South Africa whether to tempt myself with such young sheng. But tea greed totally got the better of me as I had planned to throw tea parties and share with worthy and deserving friends. As I sniff the new sweet sheng from Douji, a few of the chunks are intoxicating beyond belief. These are blind tastings which make it all the more interesting- can the other esteemed drinkers hone in on the region?
The second box are Scott's new productions. I want to open the impossibly shiny packets tonight so I can overdose on tea fragrance. But I must restrain myself until a party can be arranged. Thanks to both Scott and Jerry for their generosity and risk-taking.
Gosh, you must live in an area with good postal service to receive them so rapidly!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to finding out their identities, too (and receiving some samples!). :)
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
Dear Hobbes,
ReplyDeleteThis is one advantage of living on the Pacific Rim. I'll brew up the most fragrant chunks today. Thank you for including me although I must have been the least recent tea correspondent. You might be getting more random e-mails from various tea persons from now on.
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I just opened up my two packages last weekend and have been slowly making my way through the pile of samples! I will keep checking back to see the notes everyone makes
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