GCTTB DAY 4
Been eyeing this one for a few days and finally mustered up the courage to give it a shot. Not because I’m afraid of the flavour, but because I’ve read that silver needle tea is notoriously finicky and fragile in terms of brewing parameters, and since I normally just eyeball and guesstimate things I was a little apprehensive about messing it up. However, it actually turned out okay. I don’t have a variable kettle so I baby sat the water as it heated with the top open and my face pretty much stuck in there in place of a thermometer. I turned it off as it was just getting hot, which is assume is around the right temperature. Steeped a teaspoon for about two minutes.
Not too sure what I think of this one. On the one hand it’s my first time tasting silver needle white tea (albeit flavoured), but in all honesty it just tastes like a rather weaker green tea to me. It has a slightly fishy/seaweedy taste to it that is offputting, but the familiar jasmine note is there. I wasn’t very impressed with this one. Maybe I went in with too high expectations? Silver needle tea was also one of those “expensive rare teas” that I always dreamt about trying but never had the chance to. Never meet your heroes, eh?
Just kidding, it just wasn’t my type of tea. I much rather just prefer my Jasmine Gold Dragon tea from Tea Time which has the most similar flavour profile to this one.
Random note: the wet leaf reminded me of edemame.
