My tea scale broke yesterday, so until I get a replacement, I won’t be drinking anything nice. It’ll be samples and old teas for a few days. I’ll probably dig up some of Derk’s swap samples, which I think are all 6 g, and some of those Nio teas. (Okay, it looks like I’ll be drinking some nice teas after all…)
Unfortunately, I thought this was a sample of the Premium Dragonwell, which I’ve already reviewed, instead of the Superfine, which apparently I have not. I did two bowl sessions of roughly 2.5 g of leaf in 250 ml of 185F water, starting at 2 minutes and refilling when needed.
The dry aroma is of buttery chestnuts, with hints of florals and citrus. The first steep has notes of chestnuts, butter, cream, citrus, grass, orchid, and lettuce. The leaves float near the top of the cup well past the two-minute mark, making drinking kind of a challenge, but it’s worth it. Subsequent rounds emphasize butter, chestnuts, asparagus, spinach, orchids, herbs, and grass. Long steeps create a vegetal tea with no bitterness and surprise hints of citrus and herbs.
This tea is more complex than I remember the Premium Dragonwell being. The best before date is October 2023, so it’s held up pretty well. I should really compare these teas while they’re both fresh.
Flavors: Asparagus, Butter, Chestnut, Citrus, Cream, Floral, Grass, Herbaceous, Lettuce, Nutty, Orchid, Spinach, Vegetal
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Apparently, I did write a note about this tea and got totally different flavours. I feel dumb. Also, isn’t Steepster supposed to list your own notes first?
Steepster is doing different and weird things…
Indeed! :) I didn’t want to go through the 100+ tasting notes on that tea to see if I’d written about it, and assumed my note would be listed first anyway.
There is no logistical ordering to notes on a tea page at all that I’ve found. They don’t list yours first, they don’t even list all the rest in some sort of “oldest to newest” or “newest to oldest”… it is just pure pandemonium. I just write all my notes on an external file and copy/paste into Steepster, so I can always do a Ctrl+F search on that document to find my old tasting note.
I may need to start doing this. I kind of assumed that Steepster was ranking users in some way, though definitely not by number of tasting notes or Roswell would always come first. :P However, for a while, I was seeing my notes on the first page.
Apparently, I did write a note about this tea and got totally different flavours. I feel dumb. Also, isn’t Steepster supposed to list your own notes first?
Steepster is doing different and weird things…
Indeed! :) I didn’t want to go through the 100+ tasting notes on that tea to see if I’d written about it, and assumed my note would be listed first anyway.
There is no logistical ordering to notes on a tea page at all that I’ve found. They don’t list yours first, they don’t even list all the rest in some sort of “oldest to newest” or “newest to oldest”… it is just pure pandemonium. I just write all my notes on an external file and copy/paste into Steepster, so I can always do a Ctrl+F search on that document to find my old tasting note.
I may need to start doing this. I kind of assumed that Steepster was ranking users in some way, though definitely not by number of tasting notes or Roswell would always come first. :P However, for a while, I was seeing my notes on the first page.