Beginnerâs Tea Tasting Guide
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- Äas pĹidĂĄn 20. 08. 2020
- Just getting into Gong Fu Cha? Dip your toes in with this tasting guide for beginners, and learn how to develop your tea knowledge by tasting from white to dark tea, starting with the most challenging and overwhelming question: which tea to drink first?
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Iâve been a coffee addict all my life, but a couple months ago, my friend gifted me Assam tea for my birthday and I was surprised at the taste!!! I wanna be converted to a tea person, but thereâs just so much in the market- this totally helps me to narrow it down. Thanks for the great vid đ
Hello Gabriele, I just wanted to say thank you very much for this video. As an eager beginner, your guidance on this matter is very welcome, makes perfect sense, and now I see a clear path ahead. Thanks again, and greetings from Denmark. Anthony
I wish I had found this video a couple of years ago, it would have been very useful! By now, I have already tasted almost all the teas you mention, but not in a systematic way like you advise people to do. And I agree with your suggestions. đ
That is such a helpful video! I've been on a tea journey for years now and I still have not acquired good tasting capabilities. maybe it is because I've been drinking all of the categories of tea at the same time...
thanks for making these video's! very cool
Thank you so much!
Exactly what I was looking for, well done with doing the video in English as well.
I am 45 and I am drinking good tea from age of 17. In Czech republic there was great tea culture and very uniquely even tea rooms in small or big cities, so I was very fortunate. Today there are so many teas available, if you have the money for it, which is not allways the case for czech people, but fortunatelly it is a case for me. Some tea lovers drink it by volume and buy lower or medium priced teas, but I drink it daily (one tea per day, 1 to 3 pourings) at my computer and I pick the best variates available. Few years ago I went to dicover scotch single malt whiskies with my 3 coworkers, and today we are ast the end of theat journey. I helped them to choose similar approach to what you say here. We choosed regions, went through taste profiles, shared the bottles, found similarities and picked favourites. We avoided the most expensive ones, but we went pretty high in price (up to 200 euros per bottle). With the favourite breweries we went further and tasted more varietes. Now I have 5 to 10 favourites that I can choose from if I want. I do not even drink too much, like once or twice a week in very small amount. Why am I sharing this? Because after that 3 or 5 year episode with scotch whiskies (and simultaneous tea drinking in work) I am still surprised, that tea is actually better and more subtle. It is the top flavourful hobby I know. Of course it is great to cook at home (I cook vegetarian foods) and get into italian and indian cousine a little bit more. And appretiate the spices and taste of vegetables. But tea remains my highest taste and nose pleasure still. I avoided french and american cousine a lot, as I do not look for strange flavours and meat based foods, but I can enjoy some if it occasionaly too. I wend through sdome coffee and beer tasting weeks and months also, but I remain with good mostly vegetarian cousine, tea appretiation and occasional scotch single malt sip and I am happy that way. From teas I like good white tea, I do not buy green tea that often, and I mostly focus on good red and even more oolong teas. I think oolong teas are my favourite go to tea category. I do not drink it gong fu style (although I did in the past), I adapted to the computer drinking while working process by using a single high quality ceramic white cup with green bamboo decoration (not zhong, but taller one and wider in the middle and narrower on top) with a beatifully decorated lid and inside with a ceramic strainer. It is such a fine and easy way of preparation any tea I want. I usually pick up the strained and put it back in the water few times. I also use small bamboo tea tray. I am sad though, because one day I broke the lid. Well, it was a result of too intense work. So i drink it today without the lid from the same cup while smalling the tea in the process of brewing. Such a pleasure. I may buy replacement cup some day soon, and I will probably go in the same style of cup. I am not yet decided. I will probably choose ceramic super finely decorated again. I also have beautifull ceramic chinesse small pot at home which I do not use, so I may try that instead. From oolongs I prefer more balsamic and floral taste and smell, not a fruity and sweet. I do not mind sweet, but balsamic and floral. Pitty is I do not write dosn always what variety I buy and enjoy so after all those years I still do not know what I actually prefered by name lol. I only know it was usually wilder trees, or one tree, or more mineral one. I need to start writing it down, because last time I bought two oolongs (one phoenix) and one other one, and I was a little sad one of them was fruity and one of them was quite good. I usually look at the leaves at the picture and I tend to choose darker and needle shape ones. Or darker pearls. But mostly needles. Next year I am willing to buy everything what is available from needle shape oolongs from various suppliers in Czech republic from top of price range (15-25 eur per 50g) and different regions, but first I will watch yourt videos to get an idea of what it might be that I actually like :). Any direction you can give to me? Names, regions, varietes that have that mineral of floral or balsamic (not fruity) wild tree flavour. China and Formosa only please. Side note: last time I tasted a tea that tasted like mushrooms on a pan without eggs. Formosa Nantou Ming Qian HONG YU (RED JADE) BAI CHA Superior White Tea. It was a suprise indeed.
Very insightful bro
I just started diving in the tea world, im a bit overwhelmed but your videos are really helpful! Thank youđ
Novice tea drinker here! Discovered specialty tea earlier this year, got into it not too long ago, and I'm in love. Early on my journey I've discovered your channel and this is the first video I feel relevant enough to comment. Already have an idea how to plan my journey and pick tea more or less, but the insights here are so cool! I really wish I could buy your tea, I'm too far away for that sadly. Keep on going, Gabriele!
good video, but a view years too late for me :D. it really was just overwhelming