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Doug F

Peacock Village 2004 Shu from Verdant Tea

Doug F drank Peacock Village 2004 Shu by Verdant Tea

Okay, so there are some Shus you might date: they’re wild, unpredictable, and exhilirating, but slightly high-maintenance. You don’t want to always mess around with steeping times and water temps. Then there is the Shu you marry and she’s from Peacock Village. Beautiful but not flashy, never volatile, comforting, consistenly there for you. Satisfying in the “deep heart’s core.”*

W.B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

2012-04-27 09:01:10 -0400

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Spoonvonstup 2012-04-27 10:29:27 -0400

Love this review!

Doug F 2012-04-27 10:35:05 -0400

Thanks! I haven’t had many new teas on which to comment. I’m putting in an order at Upton for some first flush darjeelings which I’m excited to try.

Spoonvonstup 2012-04-27 10:40:12 -0400

Looking forward to reading more from you; glad to see you back.

Geoffrey 2012-04-27 11:22:22 -0400

Awesome tasting note! My thoughts exactly. And bonus for the Yeats reference. Cheers!

Doug F 2012-04-27 11:34:35 -0400

Thanks Geoffrey—I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to work some poetry into my comment.

Bonnie 2012-07-09 13:37:39 -0400

If I wasn’t an old woman who would gross you out I’d give you a big kiss for a review like this one with tears in my eyes! So short but beautifully expressed!

Doug F 2012-07-09 13:54:00 -0400

Kisses are always welcome and never gross.

Bonnie 2012-07-09 14:39:31 -0400

Ha Ha, I had my issues wrestling with this Pu’er…until I could hear what it had to say. (Your’s was female, mine male…I must have received her brother! And I do find romance in a muscular Shu who would be more like one of my Highlander kinsman in a kilt! (Yeats would approve although the setting for the longing in the poem was for Ireland it meant a longing for the freedom from city life.))

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Working from home gives me the opportunity to leisurely enjoy fine tea, ride my motorcycle on the roads of beautiful coastal Maine, hike, ski, and run and generally enjoy a sane pace of life with my wife and two young children. While I appreciate great tea, I try not to be a snob about it. I love Golden Yunnans, darjeelings and Pu-erhs. I drink greens and Oolongs less frequently. My purveyors of choice are Upton Tea Imports, Yunnan Sourcing, The Pu-erh Shop, and Mark T. Wendell, but I’m open to sampling teas from other sources if anyone has suggestions. I always drink tea straight and rarely drink flavored teas or Tisanes, except for the occasional Rooibos.