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This is another quite old tea in my cupboard, and as a white tea it’s probably one that should be drank up sooner than later. Fortunately it has aged very well; this tea is still as creamy, sweet, and deliciously floral as it was when I first got it. I would probably restock this one as my straight jasmine tea (as opposed to a jasmine pearl) just because I love the white base so much.

In that mythical time when my cupboard has been pared down to a small number of essential teas (plus a few rotating samples), this will likely have a home. I have a few more servings of it that I will enjoy before it’s gone!

I brought this tea home yesterday so that I could work it into my pre-work tea rotation and focus on a sipdown; it’s quite old. I do love this tea, but I don’t think I will end up restocking it because it is true that I have discovered so many teas that naturally taste like chocolate that I don’t really need a tea that is flavored with chocolate, no matter how good the base is.

So I made a cup this morning and it was odd. Kind of flavorless, but also bitter. Really the best when you are look for a tea, no? I was worried it might be my water since my after-work green teas have been a little lackluster since I changed the filter on our tap, though my morning Dammann teas have been delicious as always. So I brought this tea back in and am having it now.

I think age has killed this one. Same brewing parameters as I always have done, but it is defintiely a hint bitter (possibly helped by tea crumbles in the bottom of the bag?). It’s also not a sweet and complex as it should be. I do think it tastes a little better here than this morning, but that could just be a difference of drinking it while doing and eating stuff vs. drinking it on it’s own.

Nevertheless, I had a serving or two left but I tossed it. It’s definitely faded from its previous glory, and it’s not really worth drinking the rest of it.

Another green tea sipdown from this spring’s harvest. It feels nice to get through these in a reasonable amount of time!

Today I went back to my large gaiwan for this dragonwell and it certainly worked out well for me. Buttery, sweet, and fresh. A nice, re-hydrating cup of tea after a loooong day of teaching. Thanks Teavivre!

Hmmmm. I just made some of this in my gaiwan, but it didn’t come out like I expected. I did switch to a smaller gaiwan than I have been using for the other greens mostly because it seemed like a little less leaf in this pack, and besides it was the Teavivre gaiwan that they sent me, so I figured I should try one out in the smaller volume.

The reason for the hmmm is that I actually prefer this one steeped western style. Maybe it was the small gaiwan, or some other factor, but mostly this cup was just kind of boring and lackluster. I got lovely flavors from the western steep, so something clearly went wrong here. Too bad! It wasn’t a bad cup of tea, it just wasn’t very interesting. Thanks again to Teavivre for the sample!

Waaaaaahhhh. This is a sipdown. Not sure if I’ve ever drank through 50g faster than I did this 50 g, which is kind of sad because I bought this a year ago. I am a slow tea drinker. That said, this will not remain out of my cupboard for too long, because it is definitely getting restocked in my September order. Besides sipdowns, I really need to work on getting some large tins freed up for 100g amounts. Unfortunately those two goals are not really compatible!

Having this tea this afternoon, brewed in my gaiwan in short steeps and combined into one cup.

I have to say, this cup smelled really really melon-y. Almost cantaloupe, but moresoe honeydew. It’s nice and sweet as well as fresh and green. I am really digging the spring harvest of this Bi Luo Chun! It is so interesting how the harvests can make such a difference.

I have been drinking a lot of green tea lately, mostly because I have small amounts of them and it’s easier to sipdown. I am getting a little bored with it, since straight green tea isn’t my favoritest of teas anyway, but they have at least all been pleasant.

Of green teas, Bi Luo Chuns are not my faves, but I have been pleasantly surprised by this one today. It is sweet, with definite sugar snap pea flavors, but also a hint of melon. Quite nice! Thanks to Angel and Teavivre for the sample!

Turns out I had one more gaiwan full of this tea, so happily I had a sipdown today!

This is an old harvest of this tea; maybe 2 years ago? So it’s good to finally finish it up. Even though it is old it still had great flavor. Nice and buttery, slightly floral, somewhat nutty. This one is super smooth and never had any rough edges at any temperature. Just nice and smooth, tasty dragonwell to have with some cheese and crackers after a long day of work.

After teaching talking nonstop for 7hrs straight I have a sore throat and almost no voice. I hope I’m not getting sick. But I decided to have a nice cup of tea to sooth my throat after work anyway, and maybe give me enough energy not to pass out immediately.

I brewed this one gongfu style in a gaiwan but combined all the steeps into one cup. Too tired to futz with tasting individual steeps, but I wanted to varying my brewing and see how it changed the tea. I like it better this way; it is butterier, with almost lightly fruity notes, and as long as I drank it very warm or stone cold, it was much smoother and less harshly vegetal. For some reason the lukewarm was not pleasant, but once it got actually cold it was tasty again. Definitely a pleasant dragonwell.

Thanks again to Teavivre for the sample of this tea!

Morning pre-work (pre-toothbrushing! :D) tea. This worked a bit better because I used my single walled DavidsTea Perfect Mug, so the tea cooled faster and I could pick it up earlier with the handle. Still had to gulp it a bit at the end, but so it goes. It is worth it for the energy boost I get pre-class.

It’s kind of awesome having the “burden” of sipping down some of your favorite teas. If I sipdown this tea, it comes off my cupboard number, but it’s not too sad because once I get down to 100 I am restocking it immediately. This morning’s cup was particularly delicious. If I have to have this horrible schedule at least I will have my fave teas every morning.