Drinking different teas in different season

It’s said that green tea for summer, black tea for winter and oolong tea for the whole year. Do you think so?

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stock man said

Absolutely.

I find I like more light teas (green and darjeeling first flush) in summer, and darker/stronger teas in autum/winter.

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MrQuackers said

I think that there is a natural season for certain teas. For example, drinking Shincha in the spring, Konacha in the summer (ideally) and Matcha in the fall.

This is due to when tea is picked, how it is processed and if it is aged.

Shincha wouldn’t be shincha in the fall, for example.

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Living in Bangkok I mostly need to pretend there actually are seasons here. I go backwards with that theme then, and change tea types to simulate there being a change in weather. I drink extra green tea in the Northern hemisphere spring, and will be making masala chai at some point to observe cold weather that’s happening in other places. I probably won’t get around to doing more with black teas for a winter this year because other forms of transition have me on other pages.

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Error said

in Kunming we drink shu pu-erh in winter. good shu pu will warm u up from inside.

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TeaLife.HK said

I used to try and drink tea with the seasons; now I drink what I want to when I want to!

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Ken said

I dont really change my tea for season, except greens in the spring. Mostly because there is a short window to get first flush tea.

Ken said

Though I do more iced tea in the summer, mostly because its vegas and 120 in the shade.

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I drink all types of teas year-round, though I do prepare my teas mostly iced during the summer months and hot during the cold months (with a little crossover). However when I sent my mom a sampler of some of my teas to try, she said she felt green and white teas were “summer” teas and black teas were “winter” teas, so she seemed to also like lighter teas in the hotter weather and darker teas in the colder weather.

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