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This is Baozhong #2 from my Mountain Stream Teas order. It’s a flower scented tea and a very good one at that. The osmanthus mingles with the floral baozhong for an intensely fruity brew. The tea smells and tastes like stonefruits, apricot to be precise. You don’t really taste the osmanthus until later after it’s been steeping for a while. Thick mouthfeel with a lingering, sweet finish.

I steeped this grandpa style in my tumbler, ~1.5g leaf in 10oz of 200 F water. I also like adding a pinch of this tea to spent green tea leaves. Not only does it get me a few more infusions at the end of the session, but the osmanthus flavor perfectly complements green tea’s grassiness.

Flavors: Apricot, Osmanthus, Stonefruit

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 1 g 7 OZ / 197 ML
Ubacat

I’ve been waiting forever for Taiwan Tea Crafts to get some of their 2019 teas in. I see you are enjoying Mountain Stream Teas. Maybe I’ll try them out too.

LuckyMe

Their baozhong has been very good. Haven’t gotten around to trying the high mountain teas from my order yet. I haven’t sat down for many gongfu sessions recently…blame the scorching summer weather for that

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Ubacat

I’ve been waiting forever for Taiwan Tea Crafts to get some of their 2019 teas in. I see you are enjoying Mountain Stream Teas. Maybe I’ll try them out too.

LuckyMe

Their baozhong has been very good. Haven’t gotten around to trying the high mountain teas from my order yet. I haven’t sat down for many gongfu sessions recently…blame the scorching summer weather for that

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My Rating Criteria:

95 to 100: Top shelf stuff. Loved this tea and highly recommend it

90 to 94: Excellent. Enjoyed this tea and would likely repurchase

80 to 89: Good but not great. I liked it though it may be lacking in some aspects. I’ll finish it but probably won’t buy again

70 to 79: Average at best. Not terrible but wouldn’t willingly drink again

60 to 69: Sub-par. Low quality tea, barely palatable

59 and below: Bleh

Fell into tea many years ago and for a long time my experience was limited to Japanese greens and flavored Teavana teas. My tea epiphany happened when I discovered jade oolongs. That was my gateway drug to the world of high quality tea and teaware.

For the most part, I drink straight tea but do appreciate a good flavored tea on occasion. I love fresh green and floral flavors and as such, green tea and Taiwanese oolongs will always have a place in my cupboard. After avoiding black tea forever, Chinese blacks have started to grow on me. I’m less enthusiastic about puerh though. I also enjoy white tea and tisanes but reach for them less frequently.

Other non-tea interests include: cooking, reading, nature, philosophy, MMA, traveling when I can, and of course putzing around on the interwebs.

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