kavadude
❦ॐ tanuki tamer
"not a daily drinker," I like that. I will use it to describe Koniak in the future.Let's instead separate Koniak from "daily drinking kavas", not "noble", which I'm agreeable to. For me personally. unless it is very small amounts, Koniak is too strong to enjoy daily. My problem with calling any kava that is not "tudei" "noble" is two-fold. First, it implies that there are only two classifications, which is absolutely untrue, even in Vanuatu. Second, the only kava that will ever be described by the people who grow it is as "noble" are a handful of strains from Vanuatu. As the kava expert Ed Johnston wrote on another post on this site: "As for the "Noble-Kava/Flavokawain Debates" I am not convinced that there is anything what-so-ever problematic about Flavokawains
(Unless they have gone through solvent extraction!) ;
There is plenty of research showing flavokawains are good blood thinners and may even be what is helping suppress cancer tumors.
The label- Noble Kavas can be misleading and I agree with Vincent when he says-- other areas of the Pacific have traditionally consumed kavas which are equal to Nobles, just not called Nobles.
I just don't want people to think that the only good kavas have to be legally, Noble Kavas from Vanuatu.
That would be very disrespectful to the multitude of indigenous peoples who (outside of Vanuatu) have their own cultivars they have consumed for a thousand years or more.
--Ed"
I agree wholeheartedly with the Johnston quote, I don't think anyone has said that we should only drink noble Vanuatu kavas. It is unfortunate that we don't have objective terminology here, hopefully further research will be done.