Sipdown prompt: A tea sample you put off trying. It is a few months since I have ordered last time from Siam Tee Shop, but honestly it’s maybe just two or three. Okay, invoice says January 25. And as it is “single serving”, it’s not an actual sipdown for me. I need to find out if I counted those to the prompts or not.
It is probably only one sample I have around, all others are shares by others; or just tea I bought. My cupboard deserves a big reduction and I am telling myself I definitely do not need any more tea yet.
So, a sample of yancha, Wuyi yancha, an oolong I never had before. I used all 5 grams for my gongfu steeping and almost a boiling water. Short steeps, starting with 10 seconds (no rinse) and increments were 3-5 seconds, to avoid quick end of session because of long steeps.
After smelling dry leaves in preheated gaiwan, I became tea-drunk fast. It smelled so good, so roasty, fruity and as well lots of minreals and stones there.
Steeps were amazing, with great flavour, long taste and aftertaste, not such minerality to be found, rather I think I notice soy sauce, dried flowers and hay, honey, spices, milled poppy seed; all together very smooth, though a bit harsh for my tummy. First steeps were also very roasty, almost too much for my tooth, but later ones were much better.
