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Tea enthusiasts who take the time to appreciate and respect their experience with old tea will find the experience can be deeply spiritual and profound. By paying our respect to the memories and meaning that the tea represents we open ourselves to another dimension of appreciation and enjoyment. Old tea is a representation of their respective era, the state of society from olden times shaped by key historical events and ideology. Furthermore an old tea can also represent something deeply personal and in the instance below a beautiful reflection of a life.
I greatly enjoyed the following podcast/article and wanted to share it with my fellow tea enthusiasts. The account reminisces beautiful memories of a unique life lived by Francis Lam’s grandfather through drinking an old puerh tea that was left to him as an inheritance. Tim Hsu kindly prepares the tea and provides guidance during the course of the tea session.
Podcast (from 15.30 - 30.30min)
Article