I had a series of tastings here from a batch of TieguanYin in the teapot.
hot water Rinse
20 sec
light and a bit flowery
30sec
tastes like a keeper, subtle spring guavas and bamboo
45sec
Additional steeps were not made.
26 Tasting Notes
This bag just came in the mail and I was much anticipating the sensation of warming and hot tea. This doesn’t only make u feel warmer by tasting as a sencha but it speeds ur metabolism!
I would include in a tea swap as it’s flown all the way from Singapore
Ease flows into a cuppa,
& suddenly…
Whammo
Well it’s the kind of day where a little lapsong found it’s way into my celestial seasonings cherry berry. I felt a bit warm and to keep it warm and toasty I brewed the lapsong first, then added only one bag of the cc. lovely little drink
Behold a tea which actually manages to smell like chocolate. I could sip this after a yoga session or at night because the black tea is quite subdued by its small quantity in the teabag. I had it on a cold day after wheatgrass which imparts an effervescence to the maltiness of the leaves and the moist strawberry. Then again I could have imagined all of that…
Many cherry blossoms away from tasting this last, actually it’s been nine years. I would be assuaged by the word nostalgic here, because it’s a tea mostly suited for the in cup steep, and then again it’s the first one I had had in soo long since going to the UK and having my first taste of black tea from the proper vendor. I’m usually a green tea drinker but so long as you don’t oversteep this one it’s great iced or after a casual clothes optional yoga session with someone you’ve hardly known more than two weeks, so yeah I recommend this.
Initial taste test demonstrates this tea be reminiscent of ginger milk tea from the teahouse I used to go to after english classes at the college where I did my technical degree.
Moreover the taste of hot shamomille is like the home remedy I still use for having caught a cold. While this is not an everyday tea, you will be hard pressed to find fault with it as a general restorative.
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言巴相差 in YiXing GaiWan, 1st at 30sec I’m tasting a very vegetal and fresh gua, little bit of green tea taste showing up already. 2nd 1:00 my favorite steep so far lots of freshness and extreme melon even melon seeds taste, freshly roasted cha ye dan.
3rd 50 secs it’s lively I think I have both the pan fried and the melon in perfect harmony, i’d save some room for desert by drinking this leaf and I might just have one more desert, namely this liu an melon slice.
uncle lee and this lightly hued amber liquor sit well on the palate made only sweeter by my inlaw leaving for the day. That woman does not know the meaning of the word conversation, even to say pass the Uncle Lee’s cause your perfume is choking my throat. TY
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It’s tongue dancing flavor changing little green leafs were so great I had to brew up a large pot in the timolino gravity pot. It’s like a real fancy grade jasmine with all this great stuff in it not in the least too flowery, but then again jasmine from fujian is my all time favorite and staple tea. Were I to be brief I would call it intoxicating, see other notes, I’ll get many drinks per day out of this
First of all thanks to David at Verdant Teas for this batch of Dancong Oolong,
I made several infusions of my first sampling of this luxurious tasting nice little drink. My first impression is of something just a little vegetal like avocado milk, and it stays very milky the first few sips.
I look at the windowsil and behold my odontglossum orchid just sitting there as am I, rather I acquired a darker liquor from brewing the tea for a full two minutes this time in the Gaiwan after rinsing it in the YiXing Chawan. I can taste the ease of the tea, certain of itself and sweet it flows into a cuppa.
Back to reality,
GungFu in YiXing Gaiwan, 1st its a buoyant flavor mostly tastes of milk and jams, perhaps guava chutney.
2nd really enjoy the amber hue and milky overtones of the infusion.
3rd it’s still bold if only in the aftertaste and the smell of succulent guava flowers.
Adding steeps here unprecedented but would be a waste not too, with the leftover jamminess still there, and it’s a nice qi even after considerable steepage and scalding hotness.
Back to the orchid, it’s variegated leaves and long pleasing eye, just the way I feel after the tea drunk, and quietly pondering life. Where you go get the leaves from little orchid, I think you grew them overnight, lovely green plants, I can only imagine what the sampler from these folks is going to look like, super exciting.
So much for horsdeouvres, thus the spearmint in this tea is like a minty ice cream. I regulated the concentration of this tea by using some water less than boiling and by adding some splenda to bring out the date sugar taste of mint around the fifth minute of the steep.
Imagine date flavors wrapped around an ice cream cone of pure mint and chip. I stopped drinking to eat some actual brie on a biscuit dipped in basra date molasses so probably where this taste is coming from but you have got to love how it is like finding an oasis in the desert and being completely refreshed. I am definitely getting a second round of this one for my next snack attack.
First the golden leaved yunnan goes into a teapot and pour some hot water on it. There is almost black walnut aroma coming from the leafs and the strong liquor brewed is a palatable taste and good aroma. These leaves are really imported and then I found them conveniently packaged at a quaint teahouse in Washington. I tend to reserve a little of the last cup and then get a nice cup which is a mixture of the three steeps I’ve made and drunk to the last drop. I wasn’t going to rate it because I really on tried Yunnan’s just this once. :P
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Much ado about nothing, I ate, I dunked, I didn’t drink it, this tea even after sitting in the hot water at Logan Roadhouse after fifteen minutes managed to present an aromatic signature reminiscent of salted haddock, thats right fish. And I should know I kept a beta alive for four months straight. No doubt I had this experience because the woman brought me iced tea bag and hot water by mistake. I take this one chance to thank all of the waitors out there for doing the hardest task, serving to tea snobs
This delicious teas flows into a cuppa and suddenly my oh my. I sampled the Golden Dragon in a small batch with a thick walled teapot. It’s unclear tasting at first sort of malty. On second steep I did the timing right around a minute like the previous and then straight into a choicest gaiwan. The extract is mightily fermented with a twinge of mango. I’m doing additional steeps and just keeps it hot in the thermos because it has just a little insecticide maybe the stainless steel tumbler will mask. fingers crossed. Further more the Tie Guan Yin from this seller is an all around pick me up fine on any day hot or cold. And I maintain that the two of them tastes all right on additional steeps(presses) Further still there is one of Choicest Tea called Golden Dragon Yunnan Black Tea which I am reminded of every time drinking peets oolong.
Hey I made a GungFu in Gravity Gaiwan. the first infusion being 3 minutes at 85C. Therein the tastes are remarkable and only slight hibiscus oil present, a plus. The pomegranate starts out mild and then goes away almost completely. The second press through the GGW yields a golden color liquor where the tea is very much like a gunpowder I might have ordered at dim sum. Fabulous and intensely tart.
Don’t ask me how the leafs of lapsong are bestowed with that souchong smokiness, but I will attest to indulging my senses fully through drink this tea by Lupicha. There you sit by the teapot and easy wafting smoke appears to be made present by this loose leaf brew. And while you are there the further floodgates open this rich intoxicating smelly tea to your taste buds and it’s not really drinkable three times back to back. It’s still my absolute go to tea during the winter however, so I rate it in high 80s
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Gong Fu in Yi Xing Gai Wan Adagio citron
1st 6 secs bright and confined to be quite green
2nd 15 secs mild yet biting and citrus
3rd satisfyingly lemon with mild orange peel in amongst the gyokuro
additional steeps tastes more of fresh lemon with hints of celophane more on that later
