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drank Tippy Yunnan by Nothing But Tea
1353 tasting notes

I have a rather ambivalent relationship with Yunnan. I think it’s because they have such a very distinctive flavour profile. Sometimes they’re the bee’s knees and the cat’s pajamas, and other times they’re simply ‘meh’. Or even worse, like drinking hay. Makes me feel rather like a cow, really.

When I first had this one it was obviously a bee’s knees phase, and during those times I like it so much that I feel it’s unfair to fiddle with the rating now that I’ve been in meh phase, if not an actual cow phase, for so long.

Today, though, I decided to have it based on the fact that it’s been so long since I’ve had any. I have a couple of different brands to choose from and it’s only now, after I’ve made my cup, that I realise that had I chosen a different brand I could have crossed off one more sample. Oh well. Ten samples, three tins to go before I am allowed to make a new order. I’ll get through that quickly enough anyway.

I think actually right now I’m not quite in a bee’s knees phase, but it’s not quite a meh phase either. We’re in-betweening here. I think I’ll take this cup with me and watch some tv, maybe. After having checked a few things and places and all, of course.

(Work. It ought to be illegal!)

Infusin_Susan

Sometimes I think my own enthusiasm for Yunnans is artificially inflated by the caffeine content :)

Kashyap

Yunnan is one of my favorite regions and the ‘Dayeh’ one of my favorite varietals, with its golden edges, soft citrus and malt notes, sweet forgiving extractions…its ability to be an intensely floral white tea, a crisp, deep bodied black, or an elusive and earthy pu erh. Having seen how the region looks as well makes me look for elements of it in the cup, with its magnificent biodiversity and rugged terrain, amazing wild life and preserved micro-cultures and ethnicities. Yet I will admit, I do find that my love affair with Yunnan teas is also in my palate, seasonal and it seems awkward to drink it in the summer and the spring, but rather it seems to gain depth to my changing metabolism, as it adapts to season shifts, in the autumn and winter months. In those darker, colder seasons its richness and depth are comforting and I can sink into them, they drink well with roasted vegetables and poultry, and form a blanket around the slumbering senses.

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Infusin_Susan

Sometimes I think my own enthusiasm for Yunnans is artificially inflated by the caffeine content :)

Kashyap

Yunnan is one of my favorite regions and the ‘Dayeh’ one of my favorite varietals, with its golden edges, soft citrus and malt notes, sweet forgiving extractions…its ability to be an intensely floral white tea, a crisp, deep bodied black, or an elusive and earthy pu erh. Having seen how the region looks as well makes me look for elements of it in the cup, with its magnificent biodiversity and rugged terrain, amazing wild life and preserved micro-cultures and ethnicities. Yet I will admit, I do find that my love affair with Yunnan teas is also in my palate, seasonal and it seems awkward to drink it in the summer and the spring, but rather it seems to gain depth to my changing metabolism, as it adapts to season shifts, in the autumn and winter months. In those darker, colder seasons its richness and depth are comforting and I can sink into them, they drink well with roasted vegetables and poultry, and form a blanket around the slumbering senses.

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