This is a very, very strange experience.
Liquid sticky rice!
Reading the other tasting notes, I decided to cut my steep time WAY down, and start off by dipping the rinsed nest in the tea for only thirty seconds before giving it a try. I did return it to the hot water for another 15 or so when the water was so colorless (which is a weird state of being for a pu’erh in my mind, since I’ve only had the dark pu’erh before).
The flavor is pretty markedly ‘rice’ from beginning to end. There’s definitely a ‘green’ flavor here, but not bitter or astringent, so I think Auggy’s right — 30 and 45 seconds are the sweet spot; the longer steep times in a few other tasting notes recorded that the tea was bitter, and I don’t have any bitterness in my cup at all.
Interestingly, the more the tea cooled, the more I was able to detect cousin flavors between this tea and a darker pu’erh. I could be making that up in my head, but…I don’t think so. It’s a flavor at the back of the tongue more than anything, but it’s pleasant and goes quite well with the rice.
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Mmm, I love this one! It’s the first thing I’m going to order when my tea buying embargo is over!
I have a feeling it’s one of those teas you have to keep in your cupboard if you like it because, if you get a craving for it, there probably won’t be anything else out there that’ll scratch the itch!
Mmm, I love this one! It’s the first thing I’m going to order when my tea buying embargo is over!
I have a feeling it’s one of those teas you have to keep in your cupboard if you like it because, if you get a craving for it, there probably won’t be anything else out there that’ll scratch the itch!