"Michael Plant" > wrote in message
...
> Mike,
>
> Jim's got a point in there somewhere. Nigel, if I recall correctly,
> emphasized that the data you get from one set of leaves does not
> necessarily
> carry over to others. Instead, he offers a set of guidelines that include
> such facts as the leaves closest to the tip of the stem -- the buds, for
> example -- contain more caffeine than the older leaves further away from
> the
> stem tip. I look askance at the Holy Mountain caffeine data.
>
> Michael
>
>> Teasites that list caffeine content are the sames ones who claim their
>> most expensive oolong makes hundreds of cups an oz. All you need for
>> this group is a newserver and reader or if you have cheap MSN as an ISP
>> Google Groups. If you want to know something about tea just ask the
>> group and usually somebody can give you an answer without URLs. I did
>> some homework and Nigel at Teacraft did a post back in 2000
>> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...read/thread/fa
>>
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>> which is more informative than websites simply repeating each other.
>> You could Google all day and not find the kind of information on recent
>> posts about TGY and LS. I'm the only one recently to ask a question
>> about a Cantonese packaged puerh in a bamboo basket and not receive an
>> answer. Too bad because it doesn't taste like a green or black but
>> something I like better. I suspect it is a rare black LiuAn at $6/500g
>> but won't know till an expensive black LiuAn arrives from China from a
>> contact through my local tea shoppe. If they're the same I'll
>> panhandle on Ebay all I can find in my Chinatown and finally retire.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
Am I reading Nigels post wrong? It looks like he's saying that seedling tea
has 1%-3% caffeine and clonal tea 3%-5%, then says most greens are from
seedling and most blacks clonal so black tea has less caffeine.

Blues