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Da Hong Pao from Harney & Sons
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So on Sunday I went to the Harney & Sons store, and they had this in their tasting room and I just had to get it.

First steep, 8oz, little less than a minute. Ah this tea is so good. The smell is very similiar to a barley tea , and the taste is just so subtle but still has so body and doesn’t taste very watery at all. There is a definite nutty flavor to it, but it’s not overpowering or anything. I didn’t even steep this with rock sugar and it doesn’t need sweetening at all.

Second Steep. Lower temp water, longer steep, 8oz. The nutty-ness comes out a lot more in this steep, and the color is a tad more dark as well. Still, same flavor but a little more intense. And I’m loving every sip of it. I hope I can get a lot of steeps out of this !

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~lauren.
~lauren. 2010-03-30 16:31:15 -0400

This is one of my favorite “always will have on hand” tea! I haven’t been too successful in second infusions, so will try your tea parameters next time I have this (probably soon, now that this tea idea is planted in my head!).

Kathryn Ann
Kathryn Ann 2010-03-30 17:20:54 -0400

It tasted fine the first two steeps, but the third and fourth were a little bad. I think because I steeped 16oz for the third and fourth time. Dunno, I always do random sort of steeping times with new teas to figure out how to get the most out of it!

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Daily tea drinker.

I love white tea — flavored or not.
Also oolongs.

I like to find a tea and drink it till i get bored of it, so there’s not much variety in what I drink.
Right now I drink Ti Quan Yin from H&S daily.

Mechanical Engineer with a love for Korean and Japanese pop culture.

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