880 Tasting Notes
Brew style: Gongfu in gaiwan
Temperature: 200 degrees F
Dry aroma: Roasted wood, honey, raisins, cherry, milk chocolate, very sweet chamomile flowers
Throat: Nutty, caramel, cream, milk chocolate, a hint of fruit
Wet leaf aroma: Roasted nuts, pure cacao, vanilla, cream, caramel
Brew aroma: Immediate plum, then caramel, nuts, vanilla, cream, milk chocolate.. a more subdued sweetness than the dry aroma
Brew color: Light to medium tawny brown, very clear
Taste: Honey hits first and then is followed by notes of milk chocolate and plum. Some notes of orchid in the middle. Honey and some faint notes of nuts and caramel linger. Long length. No astringency. Very smooth and quite mellow.
Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C
14 bowls?? are u serious? i love matcha btw. Red Leaf is awesome! did u have it plain or flavored?
Yeah… fourteen… It was incredibly stupid and I do not recommend anyone doing that! Haha! The company needed reviewers for a fourteen different matchas and I volunteered to be one of the reviewers. I decided to just take a morning and review them all. All of them were plain matcha. It was probably one of the stupidest tea related things I have ever done. I should have spaced them out over a series of days… but no… All the matcha!!
hahah! that’s hilarious….but i can’t say it isn’t awesome ;)
14 at once, that’s some serious matcha dedication! The last time I reviewed different sample matchas for Red Leaf I had to split my session into 3 days and even then I had trouble getting to sleep at night.