White Peony

My last tea before heading home…

First I must say – this looks like the salad I will be eating for dinner tonight! :P

It says on my packaging that there is accents of toasted chestnuts and honey. I can smell the toasted chestnut comparison.

It’s sweet and roasty/toasty and floral and light and flew-fee! Yes, I said Flew-Fee!!!! Flu-Fee…Floooooooo-feeeee…

The more I sip I can also taste the chesnuttiness too!

Fun White Tea! YAY!

Sweetened asparagus and Froot Loops, that’s what this tea makes me think of. Okay, 95% of the time I was sipping, it just made me think of sweet asparagus – not really honeyed or floral asparagus, just asparagus with the natural sugar content turned way up – but every so often, I’d get a like Froot Loops. It wasn’t so much in the taste (though once or twice I ended up with a mild Froot Loop aftertaste) but it was definitely in the smell. It didn’t come out as I intentionally smelled the cup. Only as I was holding the cup in between sips would I get the Froot Loops smell wafting by. For a bit I actually thought it was something on my porch that smelled like that but eventually I figured it out.

As weird as it sounds, sweetened asparagus with super-mild Froot Loops works really well.
^3.9g/8oz

So this was the second Rishi tea I ever had, I always have a tin of it in the cabinet, I always share it with friends, it never lets me down, I wrote a song about it, we’vebeentogetherforseveralyearsnow…

Anyways! What a fine example of the great qualities white tea can offer. I’ve had a few that are better, but Rishi (as usual) sets the bar pretty high.
Yes it’s not Silver Needle, but I’ve actually found that when introducing “real white tea” to my non-tea drinking friends, starting with Bai Mu Dan is sometimes the better way to go. Silver Needle has the potential to be too subtle for some taste-buds (Doesn’t it break your heart when someone claims your tea tastes like hot water?)
I think the White Peony has a little more presence while still retaining the texture and overall taste of what a white tea should be. I think it’s really a personal preference when you get down to it though, Rishi has fine examples of both Silver Needle and White Peony.

My favorite thing about this tea is that after I share it with friends, they can go out and pick it up from the grocery – it’s the gift that keeps on giving!

A lovely white tea – sweet and very mild flavor. A nice vegetative note to it – it’s gentle, it doesn’t taste overtly grassy.

Thanks to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me this one to try!

This is very lovely. Very light and subtle just what I was looking for this afternoon.

I don’t taste the honey accent mentioned on the package, but i do taste the chestnut. nice and nutty with a delicate floral note. also a light vegetal taste. I’m new to white teas, but am really enjoying this one! The leaves have a lovely sweet aroma before steeping, but has a nutty smell after steeping.

backlogging: I had some of this thanks to the traveling tea box. it was a lovely floral cup, more strongly flavored than I expected, but that was probably because I steeped it in less water than I might have otherwise.

Fruity white tea! At first it made me think of peaches, but for the second steeping it just reminded me of generic fruit, if there is such a thing. :) This seems like a fairly indestructible white tea, I used water that was too hot and steeped it too long and it still tasted great. The flavor lingered for a while after I drank it. Not really a tea to go with food, at least the turkey sandwich I had with it. The sweetness counteracts the turkeyness. For some reason this is a really crunchy tea; the leaves just flake apart.

I can’t believe it’s not butter!

Rich, like a snickerdoodle cookie (no lie) and the plant life comes out with subsequent steeps. Really good!

A nice floral and earthy tea. Easy drinking with a light mouthfeel.

I used two teaspoons of dry tea leafs in a 4 oz gaiwan. The tea was very delicate, as most white teas are. It had definite notes of chestnuts; slightly astringent. I timed three minutes for the second steep. The second steep was much more mellow and less astringent. The steeped leafs what I would describe as a “warm” floral aroma to it; something that reminded me of holidays late in the year.

Wow! This white tea has some life to it. Usually I think of white teas as bland and unexciting-you know that kind of tea that is used as a base in fruit blends; not bad, but not interesting. This tea has a nice nutty quality to it. It tastes almost like a lighter version of an oxidized oolong. Good stuff.

Beautiful White Tea, would go well with Pasta….I appreciate all the work Rishi goes thru to provide exquisite teas. (Whoever wrote the description up top hit the nail on the head.)

This tea has a very light flowery scent. It is a very light and pleasant tea.

A light, grassy/nutty flavor.

Always a great compliment to a savoury meal!

Nutty and earthy, just the way I like my white teas.

I’m going to have to play with the steeping temp and time on this one.

Enjoyed my first cup. Surprisingly (and pleasantly) sweet!