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drank Master Han's Ancient Forest Yabao by Verdant Tea (Special)
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Sipdown, 148. With the June reserve club coming in to increase my cupboard size, I thought it would be appropriate to sipdown some of the older reserve offerings I have. These teas tend to languish for multiple reasons: 1) I love them and want to hoard them because they are rare, 2) I don’t love them so I don’t think about drinking them often, and 3) I just don’t have time to gongfu very often. Tonight we came home slightly early so I decided to have this one in the evening.

This is one that I like ok but don’t love. I just haven’t picked up the palate for piney-ness and such. To me it really reminds me of walking a forest, in the cool weather, after a rainstorm. I love that scent, but it just doesn’t translate to delicious to me. But who knows, maybe in a couple of years it will!
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Sil
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goodness, i really should try and get to my reserve club teas!

Bonnie
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I have to be in the correct mood.myself, a certain kind of calm when I drink these type’s of tea’s. I float off to forest and mountains for some reason…which I have to be in the right frame of mind to do.

Charles Thomas Draper
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Theres nothing wrong with floating off into a forest…

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Sil
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goodness, i really should try and get to my reserve club teas!

Bonnie
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I have to be in the correct mood.myself, a certain kind of calm when I drink these type’s of tea’s. I float off to forest and mountains for some reason…which I have to be in the right frame of mind to do.

Charles Thomas Draper
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Theres nothing wrong with floating off into a forest…

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I am tea obsessed, with the stash to match. I tend to really enjoy green oolongs, Chinese blacks, and flavored teas with high quality bases, especially florals, bergamot-based teas, and chocolate teas.

In my free time I am a birder, baker, and music/movie/tv addict.

Here are my rating categories, FYI:
100-90: Mind-blowingly good, just right for my palate, and teas that just take me to a happy place.
89-86: I really really like these teas and will keep most of them in the permanent collection, but they’re not quite as spectacular as the top category
85-80: Pretty tasty teas that I enjoy well enough, but definitely won’t rebuy when I run out.
79-70: Teas that I would probably drink again, but only if there were no preferrable options.
69-50: Teas that I don’t really enjoy all that much and wouldn’t drink another cup of.
49 and below: Mega yuck. This tea is just disgusting to me.
Unrated: Usually I feel unqualified to rate these teas because they are types of teas that I tend to not like in general. Sometimes user error or tea brewed under poor conditions.

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