Good News for Subscribers

There is a Teance subscription which subscribers get a tea or two every month, and in general, these are rare or hard to find, and at the best quality possible. It's also always a surprise what teas are in the subscription each month; this time, not only have I obtained some aged Baochong from Mr. Lee for the subscribers, I also managed to find the original inventor of the Honey Oolong ! The Honey Oolong was discovered by accident one year when overbearing typhoons wrecked the plants and made it impossible to dry the leaves properly. An alternative, unimaginable method to continue to make it an oolong was discovered by Mr. Chen of Pinglin, Wenshan. The varietal is Tai Cha #12, the leaf hoppers are required as it was for Taiwan Beauty, but the leaves harvested are large and the secret: the leaves were oxidized in a vacuum without oxygen. The result? Unbelievable honey tones and the sweetest oolong ever tasted. The fragrance made me almost delirious. Of course, this tea is not available every year. One never knows when the conditions will come together again for another harvest. Talk about rare: one farmer, one handful of crop, all these conditions coming together in one year, and possibly, never again! The farmer Mr. Chen was quite sad and almost cried when he told me this, but I assured him that like life, we may die any time and it may also never come again, so in comparison, even just having one such crop of tea is enough. Everyone laughed, then, cried again.

Taken from http://teapersonality.blogspot.com/