I would also like to organize a second, more personal contest: please send me your story (a short essay) about how my blog has had a special impact on the way you experience tea. Maybe it was a technique you learned and managed to reproduce, or a tea you ordered that tasted beyond your expectations, a picture that inspired you... (Send it to my e-mail: stephane_erler@yahoo.com). There will be several prizes: 150 gr of Lishan Oolong for the winner, 150 gr of Qilai shan Oolong for the runner up, 150 gr of Shanlinxi Oolong for third place and other teas for the followers.
Good luck and thanks for reading my blog!
En second lieu, j'aimerais aussi organiser un second concours un peu plus personnel: envoyez-moi votre histoire décrivant comment le blog TeaMasters a pu avoir un impact dans votre expérience du thé. Y avez-vous appris une technique de préparation ou bien est-ce un article ou une photo qui vous ont particulièrement inspiré, ou bien un thé commandé qui a largement dépassé vos attentes?... (Envoyez-moi votre texte à: stephane_erler@yahoo.com). Je ferai une sélection et organiserai probablement un second sondage pour vous départager. Selon le nombre de participants, j'en ferai un en anglais et un français). 150 gr d'Oolong de Lishan attendent le vainqueur. Le second recevra 150 gr de Qilai et le troisième aura 150 gr d'Oolong de Shanlinxi, et plus en fonction de la participation).
Congratulations on the milestone, Stephane!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Stéphane!
ReplyDeleteOne tea, that is directly connected to your blog is the
"80´s mind blowing" pu´erh! As a big step forward in the world of aged teas, it is still a benchmark for good matured and clean teas for me.
http://teamasters.blogspot.de/2011/10/mind-blowing-mid-1980s-raw-unblended.html
Best wishes from Germany!
Tobias
Tant de photos et d'articles mais celle-ci...
ReplyDeletehttp://teamasters.blogspot.fr/2014/05/tea-and-city.html
Olivier
ps: il y'a une page qui reflète tout ce que j'aime dans le blog...un condensé teamasters :
http://teamasters.blogspot.fr/2012_10_01_archive.html
Congrats Stephane!
ReplyDeleteIve only recently become a reader but I like to read your "backlog" of posts. I usually learn something from each of your posts(if I can read them :-P)but I really enjoyed your recent post about chaozhou gongfu cha brewing. Ive never seen a more beautiful narritive post like that. Keep up the great work!
-C
http://teamasters.blogspot.com/2014/05/chaozhou-gongfucha-brewing-step-by-step.html
Congratulations! First time I ordered tea from you many years ago. We lived in Vladivostok at Russian far east. It was crazy expensive for us at this time, but I never regreted that I bought it, because this tea made a difference in our life. I really mean it. We realized how actually good tea can be and for many years... event until now... this tea from you is the very best, like gold standard for me. We moved in in China and I tried a lot kind of tea, amazing teas indeed, but still Oolong you send to my dominate my memories as the best one. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHello Stephane,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a very big achievement. I am a occasional reader of your blog but have always had a interest of the topics you post about. I will have to say that your presence here has taught me and i'm sure many others many things about Taiwan teas that I would never have known about before. Your blog is truely a resource for all the world to inquire about.
While it would be hard to pin down one post that i feel would be the absolute best I will nominate a photo of your that i feel is really superb and sublime.
http://teamasters.blogspot.tw/2012/11/winter-top-lily-flower-wenshan-baozhong.html
The tea garden and the mountains and mist make it a real beauty.
Cheers to your continued dedication to this blog and your passion towards tea.
Milton
Stephane,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on this milestone. This is my own personal favorite posting and my essay will describe why:
http://teamasters.blogspot.tw/2013/06/oolongs-above-2000-meters-into-blue.html
Que le temps est précieux pour faire l'expérience du chemin(ement) du thé !! Le temps de grandir dans cette exploration en étant singulièrement bien accompagné(e)s !!
ReplyDeleteMerci Stéphane pour ta guidance et ta sensibilité en ce sens ! ...
Il m'est très difficile de m'arrêter sur un article en particulier ou sur une photo (de plus en plus "affutée") car la somme de tes posts reflètent ton regard se posant sur la diversité de ce qu'offre ce breuvage et c'est bien là, pour moi, le coeur de la richesse de ton blog, à la fois didactique, enthousiasmant, poétique, se faisant le témoin de moments de dégustations particuliers, partagés ... convoquant tout le spectre de notre sensorialité ...
Puisque c'est le jeu, en voici tout de même une, la première car elle résume pour moi l'univers du thé et mon cheminement, tout en ondulations de saveurs, décuplées par la quête de la familiarisation renouvelée d'une fluidité gestuelle, servant alors au mieux la dégustation :http://teamasters.blogspot.fr/2014/04/un-printemps-nouveau-et-plein-despoir.html
Hélène