I couldn't agree more, Lew. I smell my empty cup and gaiwan lid
regardless of tea type.
What "they" say is just a generalized idea...just to drive the point
home on why the aroma cups are generally used for oolong and not with
pu'er.

Lewis Perin wrote:
"Phyll" writes:

[...aroma cups and drinking cups...]

As they say, oolong's aroma resides on the bottom of your cup; Pu'er is
in the liquor.

Not necessarily. One of my favorite aromas is what you get from the
empty cup in the early steeps of a nice young Pu'er: sweet, musty,
almost shockingly intense.

/Lew
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amen! though i usually sniff from the faircup cuz it's bigger surface
area = more evaporation of liquor into aroma.

I think young pu leaves an intoxicating fertile scent, like ripening
fruit. kinda sexy

~j

Phyll wrote:
I couldn't agree more, Lew. I smell my empty cup and gaiwan lid
regardless of tea type.
What "they" say is just a generalized idea...just to drive the point
home on why the aroma cups are generally used for oolong and not with
pu'er.

Lewis Perin wrote:
"Phyll" writes:

[...aroma cups and drinking cups...]

As they say, oolong's aroma resides on the bottom of your cup; Pu'er is
in the liquor.

Not necessarily. One of my favorite aromas is what you get from the
empty cup in the early steeps of a nice young Pu'er: sweet, musty,
almost shockingly intense.

/Lew
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Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

"Jason F in Los Angeles" writes:

amen! though i usually sniff from the faircup cuz it's bigger surface
area = more evaporation of liquor into aroma.

At work, I usually drink from a bit Bodum Pavina double-walled cup for
the full brandy snifter aroma amplification.

I think young pu leaves an intoxicating fertile scent, like ripening
fruit. kinda sexy

Much sexier than the perfumes that tend to drift past me these days.
I get fruit from it, but animal, too.

/Lew
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Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

definitely fertile animal
....
/me stops conversation here...

~j
Lewis Perin wrote:
"Jason F in Los Angeles" writes:

amen! though i usually sniff from the faircup cuz it's bigger surface
area = more evaporation of liquor into aroma.

At work, I usually drink from a bit Bodum Pavina double-walled cup for
the full brandy snifter aroma amplification.

I think young pu leaves an intoxicating fertile scent, like ripening
fruit. kinda sexy

Much sexier than the perfumes that tend to drift past me these days.
I get fruit from it, but animal, too.

/Lew
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Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html