Hello!
Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last topic
made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?

I won't give any details - just please give me some tea that you really
like that come to your mind right now. I drink all the types of tea but
naturally there are thousands of them that I have not tried yet, so... I
wanted to buy something more (as I am shipping to Europe I want to
maximize the tea-price/shipping-cost ratio).

Thanks for any ideas .

Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
Milo

On Dec 30, 6:05*pm, Milo > wrote:
> Hello!
> Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last topic
> * made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
> to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?
>
> I won't give any details - just please give me some tea that you really
> like that come to your mind right now. I drink all the types of tea but
> naturally there are thousands of them that I have not tried yet, so... I
> wanted to buy something more (as I am shipping to Europe I want to
> maximize the tea-price/shipping-cost ratio).
>
> Thanks for any ideas .
>
> Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
> Milo

I've liked all the organic Nilgiri from Upton I have tried. Toci

On Dec 30, 8:22*pm, toci > wrote:
> On Dec 30, 6:05*pm, Milo > wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last topic
> > * made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
> > to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?
>
> > I won't give any details - just please give me some tea that you really
> > like that come to your mind right now. I drink all the types of tea but
> > naturally there are thousands of them that I have not tried yet, so... I
> > wanted to buy something more (as I am shipping to Europe I want to
> > maximize the tea-price/shipping-cost ratio).
>
> > Thanks for any ideas .
>
> > Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
> > Milo
>
> I've liked all the organic Nilgiri from Upton I have tried. * * Toci

TN68 and TN96 are still being sold. Toci

On Dec 30, 7:05 pm, Milo > wrote:
> Hello!
> Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last topic
> made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
> to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?
>
> I won't give any details - just please give me some tea that you really
> like that come to your mind right now. I drink all the types of tea but
> naturally there are thousands of them that I have not tried yet, so... I
> wanted to buy something more (as I am shipping to Europe I want to
> maximize the tea-price/shipping-cost ratio).
>
> Thanks for any ideas .
>
> Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
> Milo

I highly recommend a yellow tea - Jun Shan Yin Zhen (ZG59). It is
light and slighty fruity and doesn't get bitter - very easy to brew.
I usually use the traditional Chinese method of just adding leaves to
a tall glass of hot water. I then add more water as I get close to
the bottom. Good luck!
TokyoB

Milo > wrote in
:

> Hello!
> Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last
> topic
> made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
> to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?
>
....
>
> Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
> Milo

ZH52, Ancient Pu-Erh Mini Tuo Cha, is something that I order every month
or two (used to take the 1kg sacks when that size was still around). I
certainly come back to that one; it's become my basic bolay.

ZH80, Ancient Organic Green Pu-Erh Tuo Cha, though it is by far the most
expensive tea on the Pu-erh page, is very good indeed. Shame they don't
sell a sample of four mini-tuochas for say, $8 or so.

And speaking of Darjeeling from them, TD39 -- Makaibari Estate FTGFOP1
Second Flush -- is the one of the best for my taste that I've had in a
long time. I'm not alone in my appreciation:

"Replace the common corporate coffee with this tea, finish a full
day'swork by mid-morning, dance & sing with friends until mid-
afternoon & by evening write a book entitled, Ain't Gonna Rush No
More. By night the wars end & birds speak. It's good tea."
(taken from the review by a "Ken Lovesinger")

Happy Europe, Milo (years change with depressing predictability, but
continents?)

Ozzy

On Dec 30, 8:28*pm, toci > wrote:
> On Dec 30, 8:22*pm, toci > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Dec 30, 6:05*pm, Milo > wrote:
>
> > > Hello!
> > > Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last topic
> > > * made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
> > > to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?
>
> > > I won't give any details - just please give me some tea that you really
> > > like that come to your mind right now. I drink all the types of tea but
> > > naturally there are thousands of them that I have not tried yet, so... I
> > > wanted to buy something more (as I am shipping to Europe I want to
> > > maximize the tea-price/shipping-cost ratio).
>
> > > Thanks for any ideas .
>
> > > Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
> > > Milo
>
> > I've liked all the organic Nilgiri from Upton I have tried. * * Toci
>
> TN68 and TN96 are still being sold. * * Toci- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

There was one Nilgiri really panned by somebody else (tasting of stale
raisins) so stay close to the order numbers. I've looked up
dragonwell's yellow and Ozzy's tou cha; I'll meditate on them.
Toci

On Dec 31 2007, 12:20*am, Ozzy <please.answer@NG> wrote:
> Milo > wrote :
>
>
>
> > Hello!
> > Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last
> > topic
> > * made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
> > to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?
>
> ...
>
> > Best regards and... Happy New Year!,
> > Milo
>
> ZH52, Ancient Pu-Erh Mini Tuo Cha, is something that I order every month
> or two (used to take the 1kg sacks when that size was still around). *I
> certainly come back to that one; it's become my basic bolay.
>
> ZH80, Ancient Organic Green Pu-Erh Tuo Cha, though it is by far the most
> expensive tea on the Pu-erh page, is very good indeed. *Shame they don't
> sell a sample of four mini-tuochas for say, $8 or so.
>
> And speaking of Darjeeling from them, TD39 -- Makaibari Estate FTGFOP1
> Second Flush -- is the one of the best for my taste that I've had in a
> long time. *I'm not alone in my appreciation:
>
> *"Replace the common corporate coffee with this tea, finish a full
> * day'swork by mid-morning, dance & sing with friends until mid-
> * afternoon & by evening write a book entitled, Ain't Gonna Rush No
> * More. By night the wars end & birds speak. It's good tea."
> * * * * (taken from the review by a "Ken Lovesinger")
>
> Happy Europe, Milo (years change with depressing predictability, but
> continents?)
>
> Ozzy

That review deserves to be seen by all. T^oci

Milo > wrote:
>Hello!
>Well... I am just about to make an order at Upton Teas (well, last topic
> made me realize that I have run out of Darjeeling ) and I decided
>to ask you quite a strange question - Can you recommend me some tea?

Try the Panyong Congou, and the Malawi BOP. Two very different teas
but both excellent and quite inexpensive. I like their second to lowest
grade Keemun as well.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

toci > wrote in
:

....
>> *"Replace the common corporate coffee with this tea, finish a full
>> * day'swork by mid-morning, dance & sing with friends until mid-
>> * afternoon & by evening write a book entitled, Ain't Gonna Rush No
>> * More. By night the wars end & birds speak. It's good tea."
>> * * * * (taken from the review by a "Ken Lovesinger")
>>
....
>
> That review deserves to be seen by all. Toci

Indeed it does, and as far as I can recall that's all the review. I
misspoke in the original post. Sorry.

In checking to be sure with the net, I found last night that Uptontea
was no longer selling the leaf. Alas! Well, I suppose they didn't buy
all the supply from Makaibari, if there's any left out there at all...

Ozzy