Pathetic: I thought I had mistakenly entered this tea in my cupboard because I searched for it and searched for it and couldn’t find it.
Then today, when I was looking for something else (which I didn’t find), I found it.
Too much tea!!! How is that that I’m hovering at 100 sipdowns for the year, which means 100 containers jettisoned either outright or because I transferred their contents into a tin (the number of which remains static) and I still feel like I can’t find anything? Sigh.
As with the white peony, I am not convinced this is a different tea than the one without the Organic label, but this entry had more notes so I’m parking mine here.
I steeped according to package directions.
The dry leaves definitely smell nutty, like the meat of a Brazil nut with a sharp note.
The steeped tea is barely a color other than clear, which does not bode well. Usually if I can’t get color out of a white tea, I also can’t get aroma or flavor.
The tea does have a smell beyond that of hot water, but it is that diffuse, slightly sweet, fresh water smell. And the taste is about the same.
I am going to turn up the heat on this next time and see what happens. For now, I’m disappointed.
I seem to be nearing the end of the white teas in my cupboard as far as initial tastings go, so I’ll be starting to revisit a lot of those I’ve tasted and moving on to doing an initial taste of all my oolongs.
Flavors: Nutty, Sweet
