Birthday Gift

Tomorrow is my birthday, and it just so happens that I received my gift one day early: Tea !!!!!!!:)
My significant other brought me to my absolute favourite Tea Shop in Paris, le Palais des Thés, and basically gave me green card to choose. And choose I did!! Visualize children in candy shops and you'll get the picture. i must have had the broadest smile you've ever seen.
Not to mention that I was served my the most kind and knowledgeable tea person ever who explained thoroughly every single thing I asked (and I asked quite a lot of things)and who might just become a good friend.

So, here they are:

JAPAN
Genmaicha - a classic, one of my lasting favourites even though it's not one of THOSE teas..
Kukicha - I hadn't tries this one before (I may be a tea fanatic, but there's a limit to my budget! unfortunately.. but the good part is I always get to discover new things :) ), it's a green tea made exclusively from tea stems.

THAILAND
Milky Wu Long - an Oolong on which milk is used to treat the leaves!

NEPAL
Jun Chiyabari Himalayan Oolong - an oolong as the name says, but it is not to be treated like a classic oolong (not for gong fu cha)! It's a Nepalese oolong made from tea trees used especially to create black teas.

CHINA
Long Zhu - a round, non-astringent green tea;
Bai Lin Gong Fu - This is a special tea. It resembles the Keemun but it is a lot softer. Actually, the manufacturers used the plants from which they make White Jade tea but they processed it as if it were a blak tea! And apparently they were so happy that they managed to create them thet they called it Gong fu (= to control, master) Bai Lin ( which is the name of that particular tea tree).

TAIWAN
These teas are actually the stars of my purchase. They are high quality Oolong teas cultivated in this side of the world in which there exist tea contests: Who manages to produce the most excuisite Oolong. the one who won, got to sell the tea at a really wild price on the stock market.
Wen Shan Bao Zhong "Premium green" - Amazing Oolong with long leaves, not rolled up like the usual ones. It's got a fruity and vanilla aroma about it.
Li shan Gao Shan Cha - another very special high altitude oolong, with rolled leaves which kept the stem, light green colour and a bit more oxidated than the previous one (30% as opposed to 15%). it's got a vegetal and fruity aroma.

But these teas must be prepared in gong fu cha, otherwise one cannot enjoy the whole poetry they carry. So I also bought a Gong fu cha tea pot!

I can't wait to try them all! I think I'm going to organize some tea parties and invite friends over so that we can share this together. What's the point of a great tea if it is not shared anyway?