I'm hooked on your videos and you've taught me so much. My local tea shop, Seven Cups in Tucson, Arizona, is owned by a wonderful Chinese lady who really knows her teas and goes to China multiple times per year for sourcing, so I'm very lucky to get to try all of these. She gave me an anji baicha from her personal collection and it's one of my favorites of all time. I also really like the nutty butteriness of sunflower seed (which you call melon seed). I've got a cart growing from your shop as well, just filling it a bit more to make it worth the shipping. Thank you for your fantastic videos and cheers!
I love the wine analogy! What a connoisseur you are Don! I initially didn't like the fact that your videos were so long but they have so much information so that I can start drinking real tea.
The Google Earth was a great addition to our learning. Can't believe you got these correct! I try all kinds of green teas from China and can barely tell them apart myself.
So glad you are singing the praises of the variety of the green teas. I get tired of so many people lumping them together and disparaging them as compared to the qing cha and hei cha. More processing (and often price) does not mean greater quality.
Excellent video, Don! Love this kind of video very much: terroir, processing, comparative tasting in one genre, and blind tasting outdoors in your garden with Celine! The row of flute brewers is impressive! Excellent comparison of leaves, liquor, and taste! 💚💚💚 Thank you again! Looking forward to tasting the new greens. 😇😋🍵
Lu An Gua Pian was one of the teas that got me into the good stuff many years ago. It's been really nice to get more information about it from this video. 👍👏🍃💚🍃
We tasted melon seed on saturday in your teahouse, it was delicious, the strawberry really came through and it just got better with evey infusion:) I will definitely order it online. It was a pleasure as always, the staff at Mei Leaf is really amazing!
I did my first wine blind tasting a few weeks ago and even though I have been drinking wine for years and thought I have a pretty good understanding, it was really hard to identify the wines. It was even harder after I already had tried some, I tried to reset my palate but it didn't work 100%. Identifying all teas correctly was pretty impressive.
Great Video. A lot of Work again! In the first September week i'm visiting for the first time London. Of course, i came to your Tea House in Camden. Drink and buy some Tea. I' m little bit excited.
Thank you for your invitation at Mei Leaf. My friend and me enjoyed your hospitality. The long talk with you, i have never expectet. I have buy my first teapet and lots of tea. I try the young gushu 2018 and your Duckshit Oolong. Wish you all luck in your Life. Thankfully Dennis
Lol I love Don's enthusiastic passionate reviewing. Funny thing is, I didn't understand Tea like this before until I purchased a sampler package of high quality teas to test my palette during quarantine. Oddly enough, I was always drawn to the LongJing tea without any bias Tea knowledge before hand. Then it came to me wanting to purchase LongJing but in a bigger size only to realize the expensive price tag. Guess I have an expensive taste in Tea now lol
I think my local shop carries that same dragonwell, longjing 43 from Xinchang. Was your tea maker Lü Yiming by chance? Or maybe that cultivar is common?
as always, it's an absolute pleasure to see you both. Your clarity in description, enthusiasm, and depth of knowledge are infectious and heartening. Watched with my feet up on my workbench, sipping on a white peony white. Thanks, and cheers/love from Seattle, USA
Hey Don. I got a suggestion for a future video. A recipe for chinese marbled (tea) eggs and how different teas (black and dark oolongs) affect the taste. Cheers.
Hi, thank you for this great video (and all others). I'm a little desperate for advice - I'm trying to simultaneously brew Imperial Green and Cloud Lake and I can't taste much difference at all :/ While the tea tastes great, I'm afraid that, being able to discern only the basic "green tea" taste common to all green teas, I'm missing on many dimensions of the experience. Having watched pretty much all ML videos and trying to follow all guidance, I'm out of ideas what else to improve. I'm 1] using the recommended 3.5g leaves per 100ml of water, 2] using 80 degrees hot water, 3] brewing for cca 10 - 20 seconds, 4] have two identical sets of teaware from ML (2x gaiwan, 2x fair cup and 2x cup), 5] use Brita to filter my water, 6] roll the tea over in my mouth slowly and breathe out, etc. Any ideas what could be wrong - or are my taste buds simply not trained enough? Thank you
Really like what you did with the map at the beginning of the video Don, any thoughts on doing something similar on the main site, or maybe a shared google map? Love looking where the tea comes from :) Great vid on greens but waiting for the postie with my Little Tong Mu :)
Mei Leaf If you can change my mind, I'd be surprised. I've tried so many from the fishy to the (apparently) divine that I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. If you're doing the brewing, I'm game to try a ripe flight session!
Informative as always. Blind tasting videos are great fun - please do more. :) Btw 'zh' is pronounced pretty much like a 'j' in English, so you are not saying Zhejiang quite right (if you're going for a Standard Mandarin pronunciation, anyway - I have no idea about local Zhejiang pronunciation).
Green tea bags from the supermarket certainly all taste the same. Just bland and grassy. Although there are some good bagged Japanese and Chinese green tea that I have found in those silk tea bags at a higher-end supermarket like Whole Foods or Costco. You just got to know where to look when it comes to tea.
i'm ashamed to say i used to be one of those people that said i didn't like green tea. Now i cringe every time i try to order green tea and they hand me a pot of boiling water.
I loved the google earth addition! Helps a lot with understanding where the teas come from.
masterful hosting/presenting/speaking skills! I find you very inspiring. thanks for sharing your passion
I like your wine analogy. Great job!
I love these videos. They have just the right combination of entertainment mixed with information. There’s nothing out there like them! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wow Don, you got them all correct! Nice insertion of the map in the video.
I'm hooked on your videos and you've taught me so much. My local tea shop, Seven Cups in Tucson, Arizona, is owned by a wonderful Chinese lady who really knows her teas and goes to China multiple times per year for sourcing, so I'm very lucky to get to try all of these. She gave me an anji baicha from her personal collection and it's one of my favorites of all time. I also really like the nutty butteriness of sunflower seed (which you call melon seed). I've got a cart growing from your shop as well, just filling it a bit more to make it worth the shipping. Thank you for your fantastic videos and cheers!
I love the wine analogy! What a connoisseur you are Don! I initially didn't like the fact that your videos were so long but they have so much information so that I can start drinking real tea.
The Google Earth was a great addition to our learning. Can't believe you got these correct! I try all kinds of green teas from China and can barely tell them apart myself.
Very impressive identification. You also have a better grasp of scientific method than most
So glad you are singing the praises of the variety of the green teas. I get tired of so many people lumping them together and disparaging them as compared to the qing cha and hei cha. More processing (and often price) does not mean greater quality.
Excellent and informative video, thanks for inclusion of location maps and place names of tea origins , great !!!
Thank you for such a complete and wonderful presentation.
Excellent video, Don! Love this kind of video very much: terroir, processing, comparative tasting in one genre, and blind tasting outdoors in your garden with Celine! The row of flute brewers is impressive! Excellent comparison of leaves, liquor, and taste! 💚💚💚 Thank you again! Looking forward to tasting the new greens. 😇😋🍵
Lu An Gua Pian was one of the teas that got me into the good stuff many years ago. It's been really nice to get more information about it from this video. 👍👏🍃💚🍃
I really enjoyed the use of maps! I don't know much about China's geography and its nice to see where these teas come from.
Thanks for the video. I really liked that you added the map!
We tasted melon seed on saturday in your teahouse, it was delicious, the strawberry really came through and it just got better with evey infusion:) I will definitely order it online. It was a pleasure as always, the staff at Mei Leaf is really amazing!
I am happy that you tried it and got those strawberry flavours. Thank you for visiting us!
I have not taste green teas that much but your tasting notes for the Lu An Gua Pian tea should suits me!
as always, so interesting. thanks Don and Celine
I did my first wine blind tasting a few weeks ago and even though I have been drinking wine for years and thought I have a pretty good understanding, it was really hard to identify the wines. It was even harder after I already had tried some, I tried to reset my palate but it didn't work 100%. Identifying all teas correctly was pretty impressive.
Please make another video tasting different types of Japanese green tea. Thanks
They all taste the same! lol, okay, just joking!...I lived in Japan for 3 years, and I find not as much variety in taste as I do in Chinese teas
Great Video. A lot of Work again!
In the first September week i'm visiting for the first time London.
Of course, i came to your Tea House in Camden. Drink and buy some Tea.
I' m little bit excited.
Great, come by and ask if I am around to say hi.
Thank you for your invitation at Mei Leaf. My friend and me enjoyed your hospitality.
The long talk with you, i have never expectet.
I have buy my first teapet and lots of tea. I try the young gushu 2018 and your Duckshit Oolong.
Wish you all luck in your Life.
Thankfully
Dennis
I enjoyed this. It was very educational. Yes, as far as episodes are concerned. MoRe cameos! LOL
Lol I love Don's enthusiastic passionate reviewing.
Funny thing is, I didn't understand Tea like this before until I purchased a sampler package of high quality teas to test my palette during quarantine. Oddly enough, I was always drawn to the LongJing tea without any bias Tea knowledge before hand. Then it came to me wanting to purchase LongJing but in a bigger size only to realize the expensive price tag. Guess I have an expensive taste in Tea now lol
Hey Don, Would you please compare Indian teas VS. Chinese? Thanks in advance.
I think my local shop carries that same dragonwell, longjing 43 from Xinchang. Was your tea maker Lü Yiming by chance? Or maybe that cultivar is common?
as always, it's an absolute pleasure to see you both. Your clarity in description, enthusiasm, and depth of knowledge are infectious and heartening. Watched with my feet up on my workbench, sipping on a white peony white. Thanks, and cheers/love from Seattle, USA
Love comments like this, humbling and motivating, thank you.
Very informative. I'm a big fan of green tea but my knowledge is limited to Teample of heaven. Wish I had access to so much variety.
Hey Don. I got a suggestion for a future video. A recipe for chinese marbled (tea) eggs and how different teas (black and dark oolongs) affect the taste. Cheers.
We did a marbled tea egg recipe a couple of years ago. I will have to try to find that recipe.
FYI, I like Celine's Cameo, Random appearance. Funny. 3:56
Hi, thank you for this great video (and all others). I'm a little desperate for advice - I'm trying to simultaneously brew Imperial Green and Cloud Lake and I can't taste much difference at all :/ While the tea tastes great, I'm afraid that, being able to discern only the basic "green tea" taste common to all green teas, I'm missing on many dimensions of the experience. Having watched pretty much all ML videos and trying to follow all guidance, I'm out of ideas what else to improve. I'm 1] using the recommended 3.5g leaves per 100ml of water, 2] using 80 degrees hot water, 3] brewing for cca 10 - 20 seconds, 4] have two identical sets of teaware from ML (2x gaiwan, 2x fair cup and 2x cup), 5] use Brita to filter my water, 6] roll the tea over in my mouth slowly and breathe out, etc. Any ideas what could be wrong - or are my taste buds simply not trained enough? Thank you
Really like what you did with the map at the beginning of the video Don, any thoughts on doing something similar on the main site, or maybe a shared google map? Love looking where the tea comes from :) Great vid on greens but waiting for the postie with my Little Tong Mu :)
This guys is describing his tea like they are his side chick. So I am subscribing! 🤣
I’m wondering which one is best for its nuttiness or sweetness. I don’t care for flowery ones.
Their Fur Peak has a really nice flavour of roasted nuts.
i want one of those Flute brewers. My connieusseur (sic) brewer is awesome (Gaiwan sigh)👍
Awesome thanks
I wonder what would happen if the video was "DOES ALL RIPE PUERH TASTE THE SAME?"
Don't have me as a guest on that, that's all I'm saying. 😆
I am tempted to get you on for that one to watch you sip on a selection from the fishy to the divine.
Martin all (younger) Ripe Puer tastes like sucking on a vinyl handbag😣
Mei Leaf If you can change my mind, I'd be surprised. I've tried so many from the fishy to the (apparently) divine that I wonder if I'm doing something wrong.
If you're doing the brewing, I'm game to try a ripe flight session!
Joseph Troyer 😂 What a description! I need to up my game. 👏👏👏
@@ongoingmartin I think you're right to some extent. The differences between ripes are usually smaller than those between teas of other types.
Mei Leaf Naked Spring is otherworldly.
Hey Don. I have two questions. When are your tea sets coming back in stock and do you ship to canada
Probably October and yes we send to Canada.
I like the 2A shirt lol
Im getting into Long JIng grad 2, Japanese green teas are a bit too much sea weed for me
Informative as always. Blind tasting videos are great fun - please do more. :) Btw 'zh' is pronounced pretty much like a 'j' in English, so you are not saying Zhejiang quite right (if you're going for a Standard Mandarin pronunciation, anyway - I have no idea about local Zhejiang pronunciation).
Yeah I noticed that while editing. I don't know why I tend to anglicise pronunciation when I speak on videos.
In local Zhejiang pronunciation (or in general in southern China), "zh" would be pronounced as "z", so that just sounds like a real local ;-)
I can only wish.
Green tea bags from the supermarket certainly all taste the same. Just bland and grassy. Although there are some good bagged Japanese and Chinese green tea that I have found in those silk tea bags at a higher-end supermarket like Whole Foods or Costco. You just got to know where to look when it comes to tea.
Bruh no Jiangxi province tea？？😳
i'm ashamed to say i used to be one of those people that said i didn't like green tea. Now i cringe every time i try to order green tea and they hand me a pot of boiling water.
You have the best hair
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I would give at least 50 likes if i could
This dude makes Lu Yu seem like an amateur.
HEALTH WARNING: Drinking lots of Tea gives you X-RAY Vision .. ;)
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Celine is a babe
lol..haha...yeah, who's looking at the tea right?? lol! A great show alround!