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Group: rec.food.drink.tea · Group Profile
Author: RainyRainy Date: Sep 8, 2008 13:27
Iggy wrote:
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> I'd second the recommendation for whites from Spring Cottage. The
> owner's wife grew up on her mother's tea farm and the silver needle
> white is from there. Incomparable at $100/lb and it sells out fairly
> fast.
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> Spring Cottage also specializes in upper-tier mainland green oolongs.
> Their highest grades have spectacularly good mouth-feel, much better
> than I've had with any Taiwanese high mountain oolongs, with a flavor
> that comes up in one's breath for hours afterward despite a very light
> initial flavor on the tongue. It's an interesting effect.
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> Their bilochuns are very, very good too, and they're experimenting
> with selling 6-inch twigs of green pu-erh from older arboreal tea
> trees from various mountains in Yunnan.
Buuuut.. they don't have a website? How would I buy,
by sending cc# by insecure email?
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