I got this in the mail yesterday along with the Laoshan Black 2013 (which is becoming a drinkable temperature at this moment.
I tried this with both the western brewing for around 15 seconds or so and the way recommended on the website (tumbler method). I think the tumbler method is what I’ll be using from now on.
Firstly, I will just say that this is the best green tea I’ve ever had. By far.
The leaves are long and flat, almost like they’ve been pressed (maybe they have, I’m not sure). The smell of the dry leaves is actually very fruity, almost like a strawberry tea, but with that vegetal green smell present. Mm.
I didn’t get as much of a fruit flavor in the tea; it was almost negligible at first. It tasted at first very grassy, but not astringent. It was so smooth it was almost like I had put milk in it. Almost. As it went on, the leaves became slightly less grassy and more vegetal in general, with a little bit of spinach or something like that in there. By the end, I could almost barely taste the fruit. But it was so subtle that I could have been imagining it…
Bottom line, fantastic tea.
