Gongfu!
I found this a little more medium bodied with a more syrupy feeling liquor. It took a couple steeps for me to really start getting into this mini, but I eventually bought in for the more herbal and medicinal aftertaste alone. It was an interesting combination of very lightly cooling mint, pine-y juniper berry, and fresh dill, in particular on the exhale when it came to those more resinous tree sap notes. It’s been a while since I last had the original 2018 pressing of W2T’s Arbor Red, but for some reason my brain kept making a connection with that tea as I sipped on this one – but maybe a little less punchy and intense. I would be curious if they use material from the same regions…
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFD-yqpSq2_/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezmu0fQGclg&ab_channel=MajakDoor