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Lewis Perin

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Justin Holmes > wrote:
> >I got the basic darjeeling sampler from Upton a while back, had a few
> >cups of each, and was kind of unimpressed. I just went back to it
> >yesterday, and the Aray Organic Second flush was just amazing. Natural
> >sweetness, a wide variety of flavors. I can only guess that Darjeeling
> >is especially sensitive to amount, water temp, and steep time.
>
> This is pretty true of any delicate tea. It's true that it's not always
> easy to bring out the best in a tea, but with a little tinkering and a
> little care you can often find something good in even cheap teas too.

Amen to that. At the risk of taking some of the fun out of it, if you
want to be able to reproduce your *good* results once you first obtain
them, you probably need to measure and record what you do. To some
extent, that is: there are lots of ways to do this, and you certainly
don't need to measure and record every time.

/Lew
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