I am slowly but surely getting the webpage dusted off and up-to-date….
A link here to new pages on Herbal Tisanes for those that need a late night or tasty, healthy drink….
For news on Sun Dried Wild Rose buds, Superior Chrysanthemum, Tulsi Herbal Tonic or the soon to arrive Rooibos, click on the link or head straight to the shop….Enjoy
some late night Silver Needles tea tasting has led to a wee dust off of the weblog…
i will try to retrospectively add some posts and do my best to keep a little more on top of posts here for all those not keen on Fbookery…
and so-
fresh teas to the tasting table, bagged and packed for this weekends’ markets…
L-R Bi Luo Chun Org. green, Okayti Org. Darjeeling first flush, Jungapana Org. Darjeeling Muscatel second flush and Mokalbari Estate Assam Golden Tips
Four fresh 2014 teas, distinct and tasty….each a beautiful representation of their style and quality…
AvailableSaturday atFlinders Street Market- Adelaide’s weekend artisan market or Sunday at The Market Shed on Holland…(AND Thursday next-13th- Organic Corner Store)
come try some and make it yours soon…
fresh AND best….! yum……
a few shots of the action The Tea Catcher style at the Market Shed at Holland St, City…thanks again to all the fine punters and stallholders and we look forward to seeing you all in the New Year….oh last minute#presents still available if needed….!
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So finally The Tea Catcher has his face out in the public and, new sales combined with the previous constant trickle of tea sales, the larder was nearly bare….!
To the rescue the fab team supplying us from Nepal…..et viola, nearly 50kg of super re-ordered Tea Catcher favourites (New Season Fresh Guranse Organics-green, first, second, autumn flushes, Earl Grey, Arya Tara Silver Tips
and more) AND FRESH NEW TEAS (inc. Jun Chiyabari Himalayan Jade Hand-rolled Organic 2nd flush(*see below), Mountain Dew Hand-rolled Special first flush, Sandakphu Hand-rolled Oolong)….yum and yippee…!
NB due to the fluctuations in the $A prices of the new season teas will likely rise a little, so head to the shop now or the markets thursdays and sundays, and help clean the shelves and grab some bargains….
The 200g teas will exit the online store soon to make room for new teas but bulk prices always available from theteacatcher@gmail.com
And all of the new teas will be reviewed, priced and posted ASAP…
STAY TUNED AND HAPPY SLURPIN’….!
i havn’t drunk too much raw puerh apart from handfull sizes birds nests the china town used to stock….
i reckon my brewing methods were more than a little off…back on track i had a crack last night and today (only daytime photos)…
some to learn but both brewed up nicely…
first-2013 Changwapu Jingmai Gu Shu Huang Pian,
then below-2012 Changwapu Yiwu Zheng Shan Qiaomu Xiao Bing Cha…phew, more than a coupla mouthsfull there..
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a fine spring afternoon eased along with a few tasty cups of 2013 spring Te Ji Grade, Lianghe “Hui Long” greentea
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japanese tea ceremony
“When tea is more than a drink and the tea ceremony is understood and practiced to foster harmony in humanity, promote harmony with nature, discipline the mind, quiet the heart, and attain the purity of enlightenment, the art of tea becomes teaism. The term “chadao” has two words, the first being ‘tea’ and the second the Chinese loanword tao/dao/ native suffix -ism (also Japanese: 主義), and could thus be read as ‘teaism’. Another, more literal reading of the word is the ‘way of tea’ (茶 tea and 道 way), comparable with for example 弓道; the way of the bow. The term can be used to describe tea ceremony as the interests in tea culture and studies and pursued over time with self-cultivation. Teaism is mostly a simplistic mode of aesthetics, but there are subtle insights into ethics, and even metaphysics. Teaism is related to teamind. A sense of focus and concentration while under the influence of great tasting tea.
A ‘ Teaist’ is a person who performs or enjoys the art of tea and ‘teaism. In Chinese and Japanese, as well as South Korean traditional culture, there are well developed teaisms.” [wiki- tea lore]
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“…meanwhile let us have a cup of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing(sighing?) of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.” Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea,[wiki]1906
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A tasting through the seasons, spring to autumn harvests, with, from right to left, Organic Guranse Handrolled First Flush SFTGFOP, Darjeeling Jungapana Muscatel Wonder Tea Dj-139 and Kuwapani Autumn Flush lot #kp-45.
The tasty new regime begins…why not start yours….?
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