No different than the Snapple White tea commercial I mentioned earlier.
You need simple minded descriptions for the mass consumer of tea and
war. You bottle tea you bottle war. On the light side bottling tea is
nothing new. When I am on the road I look for Liptons unsweetened in
the cooler if I can't find it at the fountain.

Jim

PS My cheap tea blossoms fall apart. The expensive ones don't.

Alex Chaihorsky wrote:
> Ignorance is not a big deal in general - one can't know it all. But
> ignorance about things you declare your specialty is a big deal. The
> following is a blazing example of even worse type - published ignorant
> statement about tea... by a tea boutique owner!
> They sell "select" tea in wine bottles.
> Interestingly enough, I was not the one who discovered these guys, although
> they are local (Tahoe City is a 30 min drive from my house). They were
> pointed out to me by my Russian friends (www.teatips.ru - one of the best
> tea sites in the world, IMHO) who asked me if this was some kind of an April
> fool's joke. It was not.
>
> Enjoy:
>
> ............................."What many people don't realize, Clay contends,
> is that the packaged tea people think they are drinking is actually herbal
> infusions. Straight tea is from the tea leaf and becomes different types of
> tea depending on how long it is brewed.
>
> "All teas start off as green tea, unless you pick it earlier, than it is
> white," Pacheco teaches. "You brew it and cook it and it becomes oolong tea.
> You brew it a little more and it becomes pu-erh tea. If you ferment a
> pu-reh, it becomes a black tea. When you ferment it, it looses some
> caffeine. The pu-erh is the strongest tea."
> Pacheco also offers the best way to drink their fine teas:
>
> "I think the best way is over ice. You get more flavor when it's cold - the
> flavor comes out."
> ............................................
>
> If you think I made this up - I am flattered. Unfortunately I lack that kind
> of imagination :
> http://www.tahoe-world.com/content/view/778/75/
>
> I love every and each passage of this blasphemy. But the best part is that
> they state in the article that they (I quote) "We want to educate people
> [about tea],".
> And people think Rumsfield is clueless.
>
> Sasha.