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A customer review from a scientific perspective
vs a Cantonese one from an old tea aficionado
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A Phoenix oolong that we rolled out around last Christmas, Floral Pomelo — Yòu Huāxiāng Dancong 柚花香單欉 — has just received an unusual customer review. One that is from the perspective of a plant biochemist. It is very refreshing for us to read, perhaps because its plain account in scientific terms of some of the key elements in the dried leaves that contributes to its unique taste profile explains well the reason behind what you would feel when you sip the tea.
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“…the 2025 harvest contains volatile sulfur compounds – often referred to as “polyfunctional thiols” in the literature – which seem to be present here in unusually high concentrations.
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Volatile sulfur compounds are kaleidoscopic chameleons of flavor, and double-edged swords at the same time: they contribute significantly to the complex fruity notes found in mango, lychee, passionfruit, as well as pomelo, grapefruit, kumquat, and more…”
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This same customer, NN, is the same VIP customer whose comment on the pre-release sample of this Floral Pomelo that I previously quoted in an earlier newsletter.
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All VIP customers receive from time to time pre-release samples in addition to a life time discount coupon.
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How to become a VIP customer?
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Any customer whose total product purchase exceeds US$1,022 within a year will be automatically issued the status.
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An old school style tea review
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One of our oldest VIPs, an old tea aficionado, once posted a product review that is completely opposite in style and tone as that of NN:
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“True to the description, the 2014 Song Cultivar is indeed more enjoyable than those from the preceding years and is also more resilient across multiple infusions. By the sixth or seventh steep, its powerful aftertaste emerges with striking intensity, while its lingering fragrance remains present.”
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the above is a translation from his original Hong Kong Cantonese:
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果如所言，2014的宋種，確較往上幾年好飲、且更耐沖泡，沖至六七泡，後勁淩厲，餘香猶在。
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Unfortunately, the English translation can hardly convey the poetic and simple, straightforward language of the original Cantonese, such as the ending couplet 後勁淩厲，餘香猶在。
( couplet is a writing style in the Chinese languages of two lines, which is structurally coherent of each corresponding word in the neighbouring line in part of speech, meaning and phonetics)
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I was as happy to read this short and old school style tea review many years ago as I have read the scientific one from NN a while ago.
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To us, whatever your style of writing, it is important to understand from you what your experience with our teas is. It means a lot to us. I think it means a lot to other users as well.
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