Vous n'avez sans doute pas manquer de lire le nouveau post ce matin de Serge sur son site Whiskyfun:
The Whiskyfun madness is OVER, please welcome Teafun.com !
Friends, I’m deeply sorry, but this is it. After +/- 7,000 different tasting notes, I’m fed up with whisky. I knew this was going to happen one day. Again, I’m sorry.
In fact, it all happened yesterday. I was going to taste an official Clynelish 8yo spring cap that had been bottled around 1930. Quite appropriately, I had put Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson on the stereo. My glasses were ready, as were a water jug and a pipette. All of a sudden, I felt a longing for tea instead of whisky. Believe me, it was a strange feeling. Like a robot, I cleared my table, poured the Clynelish into the sink and went down to my cellar, where I had started to put old pu-erh tea cakes (Bingchá) into storage a while back. A premonition? I came back up with a 65yo Jing Chang Hao that I had bought in China and a young Wao Zing Pao from 2005. Then I took my brand new gungfu chá set that I had bought at Beijing airport and had never used since then, including a genuine fake 12cl YiXing teapot, and I was on.
Tasting tea and buying Pu-erh
in China for Teafun.com
Believe me or not, it’s been the most wonderful tasting session I’ve ever done and that’s why I’ve decided, not only to drop whisky altogether, but also to turn Whiskyfun.com into Teafun.com starting right today. You may expect loads of new tea tasting notes in the coming weeks as well as quite some cosmetic changes to the cavern-age layout of this lousy website. It was about time! I’ll also become much more ‘social’, pounding Twitter, harassing YouTube and shelling Facebook. Not too sure I’ll keep all my old notes for whisky online, at least not for very long, as I’ll need storage space for my tea notes. As for the Malt Maniacs, I’ll try to win them all over to tea as well and if they ever refuse to do so, I think I’ll simply launch the Tea Maniacs very soon.
Anyway, time to publish these first notes that I took yesterday night, I hope you’ll enjoy them! Some of these teas can take 15 or even 20 steepings but we’ll do just six so that it doesn’t all get even more boring than with malt whisky.
Magnifique ce poisson d'avril!!!
