Weishan Mao Feng Tea by Harney & Sons

ashmanra 4 tasting notes

This is a free sample provided by Russel Allyn and Harney and Sons. Many thanks!

What can I say about this tea? It is a green tea but the liquor is paler than most of my white teas.
The aroma is buttered spinach.

I used city water to make this tea, but I swear it tastes like pure snow melt with spinach and a little dab of butter. It tastes as though the tea has cleansed the water to a purity not seen in ages. It has that high mineral note you get when you eat frost. (All you young folks – kids used to scrape and eat the fine frost that formed in freezers before they started making them frost free. Mom always told me it was going to kill me one day. LOL! I think food poisoning or something.)

I steeped it for the full three minutes in 170F water, and there is no trace or bitterness or astringency.

This cup is an escape. No more writing. Time to turn inward. Thank you, Russel and Harney and Sons!

2012-07-19 13:00:02 -0400

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My bestie texted me this morning to ask if we could have tea today. I said, “Yes, please!” our computer got a virus and now my daughter’s high school transcript has to be redone completely from scratch. Oy vey! Transcripts are the very least favorite part of homeschooling to me!

Bestie has been wanting to learn to like green and white teas, so I chose this for our first. Since I have reviewed it a couple of times recently, I won’t restate a whole lot of what I said before, but it was a little different today and that is what I wanted to focus on.

The recommended steeping time is two to three minutes, and I was cautious before and kept it on the low side. Since it is such a light tea, I decided to increase my steep time today.

Drinking the first steep, I found myself running my tongue over my teeth repeatedly. I realized that the tea had left a creamy, almost buttery feeling. Yum! From now on, I will steep this one for three minutes.

2012-07-23 16:11:30 -0400

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Back logging from last night: I decided to revisit this sample from Russel Allyn of Harney and Sons. This was our late night yoga tea for hubby and me! :)

As I said before, this tastes likes snowmelt in which one has cooked veggies, something like artichoke, asparagus, some smooth and mild and lightly buttered. Hubby, who still adds milk and sugar to his black tea, likes green and oolong tea plain. I watched as he poured cup after cup and drank it down. I think I got about seven of the twenty two ounces I made!

I didn’t want to finish my sample so I had steeped the same leaves three times in a tiny glass pot. I am glad I have enough leaves to drink this one more time – probably soon!

Thank you, Russel and Harney and Sons!

2012-11-19 15:43:53 -0500

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I am drinking this again today, this time with hubby.

It smells lightly of butter to me, maybe lightly buttered squash, but the vegetal part is mild. There is still a sense to me that the tea has somehow cleansed the water of all impurities, restoring it to its pristine, newly created state. I think of this as a light mineral flavor, like melted frost.

Hubby says it is good, and he doesn’t know what it tastes like, and that he is a Philistine so I will quit asking what he tastes. All done, sweetie! Enjoy your tea in peace! LOL!

2012-07-22 11:39:11 -0400