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Anlina drank Nepal 1st Flush 2014 Emerald Green Tea by What-Cha

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With so many What-cha tasting notes popping up on my dashboard, I’ve been feeling inspired to gt through more of my untrieds from my last order.

I haven’t often felt in the mood for a green tea lately, but my water temperature was pretty much just right when I went to make a cup, and this was at the top of my bin. I’m glad it was.

The steeping directions recommend 1-2tsp, but the leaf is very fluffy and hard to measure with a spoon, so I pulled 2.2g out of the bag, which worked out to a bit over a teaspoon if the leaves were made to fit into the spoon. Steeped in 80C water for 3 minutes.

This is a delicious green tea, with notes of honey, corn, umami, peas, and lots of sweetness. Good medium body and smooth mouthfeel. The soup was rather rich at 3 minutes and might have been getting into bitter or astringent territory with any more time.

Delicious. That cup disappeared rather quickly.

Flavors: Garden Peas, Honey, Kettle Corn, Sweet, Umami

Preparation

175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 g 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Greens are my main standby tea so I’m adding this to my wish list. It sounds great!

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Greens are my main standby tea so I’m adding this to my wish list. It sounds great!

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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