Winter 2023, Lot 1289
I still don’t have internet at my new place, so tapping and swiping tea notes has been a chore on a phone. This will be pretty short.
5g, short steeps in 100mL porcelain pot: Delicious and fragrant, though fragrance not as pronounced as a spring tea. Balanced sweetness with tannins (used very hot water). Floral sweet pea overtone, fruity and nutty mid, and gently cooked spinach/fresh pea undertone. I wanna say the umami that ties in with the green notes is egg yolk and the colloidal nature is like water spinach. Rather strong cooling/warming sensation in chest .
This morning’s 3g:300mL bowl tea with 190F water is a soothing and nutritive broth. The green undertone is more pronounced and like stewed green beans. None of the tannins found with short steeps and very hot water. Still a bouquet of sweet pea flowers. Fruity-nutty mid has turned more nutty but it’s more of a suggestion than day the nutty notes of a song ding. I do get some peach and mineral notes in a clean finish.
If this is truly organic, I am very surprised as many organic teas don’t have this kind of complexity or umami.
I said this would be short but the tea seems to have coerced me into writing more than intended. I hope to come back with another note before the sample is gone.
Flavors: Almond, Apricot, Balanced, Broth, Floral, Flowers, Garden Peas, Green Beans, Lilac, Marzipan, Mint, Nutty, Peach, Soft, Spinach, Sugarcane, Tannin, Umami, Vanilla, Viscous