I found a lot more to love in this tea a couple weeks later… new note added!
This review is for the spring 2021 harvest/roast. I have tried this tea, both gong fu and in a brewer, and I am just not getting much more than a rather ascerbic charcoal in any steep. It tastes, to me, like there is a hole in the middle of the flavor profile, where I should be finding fruits or vegetables or earth… but I just keep getting sharp charcoal around the edges and nothing much in the middle, through every steep. If it weren’t labeled “light roasted,” I’d wonder if this batch was burnt and too far gone. I do trust what “tea palate” I have, though this one is making me doubt myself! I’ll finish out my 25g bag and see if there’s anything more to find, but I don’t think I’ll re-order.
Flavors: Burnt, Charcoal
