This is my first DHP, so take this with a grain of salt.
This tea is all right. I ordered a sample of it from a promotion the company was having, and was excited to see the package in my mailbox today. I steeped up the tea with 190 degree water, and sipped.
Roasty.
The first steep was good—intense roast on the front end and then fruitiness on the back. However, steeps 2-6 all just tasted like roasted leaves, without nice fruit flavor. I think this might be a freshly-roasted tea…? It’s just so dominated by this roast flavor, which is surprising because the leaves are pretty green. Ah well.
Later steeps are definitely better. The roast dies down a bit and the fruit and flowers come out a little. Still, I can’t help but think that for $40/100g, this tea is not worth the money. Would probably be better if I left it alone for a couple months and let the roast die down.
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A lot of people do that with traditionally processed yancha. A know people who leave it for up to a year.
Not sure if I’m that patient, but I’m interested to see what it’s like in a few months!
Aging this much more won’t do much, it was actually harvested about a year ago. You may just be thrown off by the roasted profile since this is your first DHP?
Could be, yeah. I’ll give it another shot in a little, I’ve still got 3.5g left. Thanks!
I actually prefer this tea to regular DHP because it’s less roasty. Giving the tea a quick rinse also helps remove some of the “char”.
Cool, I’ll try it an see what happens
A lot of people do that with traditionally processed yancha. A know people who leave it for up to a year.
Not sure if I’m that patient, but I’m interested to see what it’s like in a few months!
Aging this much more won’t do much, it was actually harvested about a year ago. You may just be thrown off by the roasted profile since this is your first DHP?
Could be, yeah. I’ll give it another shot in a little, I’ve still got 3.5g left. Thanks!
I actually prefer this tea to regular DHP because it’s less roasty. Giving the tea a quick rinse also helps remove some of the “char”.
Cool, I’ll try it an see what happens