Monday, May 07, 2007

Chinese Tea

Just when collecting wine and cheeses were not enough, Tim Whittaker has got me hooked on Chinese teas. These aren't your garden variety Earl Grey crap from Twinnings - these are straight from the Middle Kingdom, where they actually keep track of which tree the leaves came from.

These particular varieties are called pu-erh, and they basically get aged like wine - although very drinkable now.