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2010 Spring Tie Guan Yin - Diamond Grade - Anxi Oolong Tea from Norbu Tea

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81/100

2010 Spring Tie Guan Yin - Diamond Grade - Anxi Oolong Tea

Oolong Tea by Norbu Tea

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Like the 2009 vintage, this is a glorious tea, rich, sweet, floral, a little spicy, and all around brilliant. Tonight I ran out of bladder capacity and hot water at the 6th infusion, but I have little doubt that it will keep going well beyond that.

I used 1 gram of tea per ounce/30mL of 190 degree water, for 30 seconds, and gradually increase the infusions to a couple of minutes by the 10th or so.

I opened one of my last vacuum-sealed packages of this over the weekend, and have already indulged 3 times. I have a lovely new little porcelain teapot (1) that is fantastic with this tea, and last night it just kept going and going and going, a dozen infusions, the last of them still sweet—so different from the Alishan oolongs that keep their spiciness longest—and then I ran out of gas before the tea did.

Yes, I rate this one 100, perfect, nirvana, because I lack the imagination to see how it could get better than this tea, brewed in this pot, drunk from this cup (2), with this cat (3) on my lap.

(1) Pot
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debunix/5847746556
(2) Cup
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debunix/5859058796
(3) Cat
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debunix/3713650278

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