2023 Spring Harvest
This was included as a sample! I’ve tried this one before, way back in 2020… That’s so many tea-years ago that it’s essentially brand new again (also, this tea type is right up my ally). The aroma alone is divine: creamy, buttery, vegetal-floral goodness with a honeyed-sweet, fruity jam note.
The flavour profile is an entire spectrum of the most verdant green: umami seaweed, calcium-rich spinach, apple, fresh grass… It’s also a bouquet of flowers: honeysuckle, orchid, vanilla, lilac, hyacinth, heliotrope (you know – all the most expressive-smelling flowers that I want to eat but probably shouldn’t in most cases). I even picked up a little pineapple but it’s not as fruity to taste as some similar oolong.
Which notes come forward and which notes mellow out or combine to make new flavours varied greatly over the course of six resteeps. I wish I could say I was paying attention but I inhaled it.
Flavors: Apple, Apple Candy, Butter, Cucumber, Floral, Grass, Lilac, Milky, Mineral, Orchid, Pineapple, Seaweed, Smooth, Spinach, Sugarcane, Sweet, Umami, Vanilla, Vegetal
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Ummm, how long is a tea-year? asking for a friend.
Oh, I’m not sure how I’d define it… I think I meshed together the idea of “dog years” for tea shelf life, harvesting cycles, and my own ability to forget details, or entire teas, over an unmeasured range of time XD
Ummm, how long is a tea-year? asking for a friend.
Oh, I’m not sure how I’d define it… I think I meshed together the idea of “dog years” for tea shelf life, harvesting cycles, and my own ability to forget details, or entire teas, over an unmeasured range of time XD