As opposed to some of my never-fail teas, teas that can be brewed with any level of sleepiness and always turn out beautifully, this tea is capricious and utterly unpredictable. Sometimes it can be everything I ever wanted in a green tea – vegetal and savory, with a wonderful chewy mouth feel – while other times it gives me nothing but off flavors.
Like with any moody thing, it always makes me wonder what I’ve done to deserve my treatment. On off-flavor days, I feel as though I must have offended it by some unknowable bug-squishing or flower-tramping episode. On perfect brewing days, I feel like I’m being rewarded for an unremembered kindness or unnoticed act of grace.
No easy-going tea could ever win my affections as much as this one has.
Flavors: Vegetal
