Many thanks to Oolong Owl for her recent stash sale – this tea was one of the ones she sent me, and the first new one I tried! (Of the teas she sent me, it turns out I had one in my cupboard already from Teavivre).
I brewed this up western style this morning – 1.5 tsp for 1.5 cups of water, 3 minutes, 70C. The resulting liquor was a nice yellow-orange green colour, somewhat pale, but still with some character in it.
The tea tasted like a pretty straightforward green tea – not quite buttery or green beany, but still somewhat vegetal. Slightly smoky.
In fact, it reminded me quite a bit of the Hunan Cloud and Mist I have from Capital Teas, or like a very light Yunnan green. I don’t know at what elevation this tea was grown, but I do wonder if that’s just what high-elevation teas taste like (assuming that high elevation is the reason behind the name “cloud and mist” in the first place).
