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This was my first tea of the day. I brewed my first cup per the instructions, but since then I’ve been adding more boiling water to the cup when the glass becomes between 1/2 and 1/3 full. The aroma is very mild, the flavor is sweet, and the aftertaste is lingering. Not that I have tried too many, but this is probably the best Dragon Well I’ve tried yet.

Today is the first day of my “diet”. I really hate that word. I’m not looking to lose weight for vanity reasons. I just am not in the market to replace my clothing and I haven’t been eating the healthiest foods recently, and I’d like to get back to eating more fruits, vegetables, nuts and fewer potato chips and soy ice cream. I mention all of this because after drinking 2 cups of this today, I felt like I had just had a double espresso. I’m not sure if it was this tea in particular or it was the caffeine combined the fact that I’d eaten very little today. Who knows.

I was surprised by the savoriness of this tea’s aroma and flavor. I expected it to be much sweeter (based on nothing because I hadn’t read anything about this one since I ordered it). I enjoyed this very much, but I drank it out of Lifefactory bottle, so I couldn’t get a lot of the aroma. Rating may be changed after I enjoy a proper cup or gong fu session with this.

Yum. This tea tastes like sweet, juicy apples, but without the bite I am used to experiencing with this flavor. I was more in the mood for a darker oolong tonight (why I thought this would fit the bill, I don’t know) but this was a really enjoyable tea!

So, this isn’t the freshest tea ever. My mother had this in her cupboard for probably about 2 years before she passed it on to me. I wasn’t too thrilled by the smell of the dry leaf (it still smelled like it would be very strongly flavored), but I figured I’d give it a try. When the hot water first hit the leaves I could smell a fresh box of Crayola crayons. I smelled it as it brewed it again, and it still smelled like crayons. It’s not the most unpleasant smell, though, the smell of the wax and the dyes and the pulp paper is rather sweet. Anyhow…I actually liked this pretty well after it was brewed. The flavorings were still nice- cream, perhaps a bit of vanilla, raspberries, cherries, and dry wood or construction paper (maybe this last taste was from the fact that this is an “aged” tea). All around it was enjoyable and the aftertaste was pleasantly mild (I don’t like flavorings that linger).

This tea is my first of the day. There’s not much I have to say about it. It was a decent cup of tea. I found the predominant flavor to be that of mild smoke. I tried to brew a strong-ish cup without over-leafing, but it still turned out to be pretty weak in flavor, but it did dry out my throat…

I’m drinking the end of this tonight for a double sipdown. I’m doing a gong fu session alongside the original Laoshan Black. Feeling grateful for all of the good tea I have been able to drink. :-)

This is a sipdown. I’m doing a gong fu session alongside the 1st Picking Laoshan Black. Feeling grateful for all of the good tea I have been able to drink. :-)

This was the second pot of tea I brewed for Casey and I today. He really liked the Laoshan Black and requested a similar tea. Casey strongly prefers this to the original. I’m still not sure. It is certainly sweeter and smoother, but the aftertaste is somehow a little vegetal to me. I have enough for one more pot of this, and I do hope that Verdant produces special versions of Laoshan Black again.

Casey and I went out for coffee this morning (in my case, soy milk flavored with pumpkin syrup) and when we returned we both got back into our pajamas and got on the couch for a Game of Thrones marathon. We’re both new to the show, so we’re attempting to catch up before the new season.

I made us a pot of Laoshan Black first. This is still one of my favorites even though it was also one of the first loose leaf teas I tried when I got “into” tea.

I brewed a pot of this last night. It was very good. Pretty much what you expect a good Dian Hong to be. I’ll have to get to know this one better with a gong fu session…