This video is so helpful, and is a wonderful addition to your “Foundations of Tea” playlist. For us newbies, having the anglicized name of the region, cultivar, etc. on the screen as you talk about them would be fantastic! I find the pronunciation to text of Chinese words in particular to be very confusing!
LOVE this! Thank you--SOOOO helpful. One of the biggest takeaways I gathered was the value of learning and understanding more of the Chinese language as a means to help (me) understand more about the tea when you're describing it (or unpacking a new release). Many thanks, Don!
I have just joined your channel. A speciality coffee enthusiast for a while now I have just expanded my horizons by getting into tea. Currently enjoying Yuzu & Bi Luo Chun. Finding your RU-vids extremely informative, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Other companies are not following that guide line. Season i see sometimes, and batch never. Sometimes I see Provence or the exact area of China. Type and name is always on the package. But, what confuses me is, different companies will have the same tea with a different name. I almost punched LiuBao Hei Cha from two different companies.Because the name was different.
... well. thank you Don, but it might be easier to just learn mandarin instead. lol jk, thanks for all this info, theres so much to learn in this endless world of tea, i love it
About the name of the producer being dropped- Not sure I see the difference between a wine estate and a tea producer here based on the video explanation. Wine producers don't sell direct to the public either, it goes through distributors and wine stores just like tea. Except that the wine producer bottles their own product and makes sure their name is on the label, rather than selling by the barrel to middlemen afaik. Is the degree of separation bigger in tea or could the fact that the producer's name is often dropped just be the result of who does the final packaging? Are the margins too narrow to make the benefit of name recognition for their product worth doing their own packaging in tea, or is it convention/expectation that the distributors want to package the tea themselves? Or it could be that the producers focus on their relationship or name recognition with the buyers/distributors and don't worry about name recognition from end consumers. Any insight there?
If you learn anything about tea, it is that you will go down the rabbit hole of information and never get to the bottom of it, That's what we teal lovers like though
Copied from google, where else? Bin wines are the wines that are named after a BIN number or Batch Identification Number. In simple words, bin numbers refer to the storage area in a wine cellar where these wines have been held or stored before being sold.
