Backlog.
This was a good tea but seemed to suffer from a loss of freshness. Partly a result of Covid related shipping delays and partly due to sitting in cold storage for several months. I feel like delicate greens such as first flushes don’t hold up to refrigeration as well as dragonwells and sencha.
At standard green tea temperature (170 – 175 F) the tea has an odd note of overly ripe pear and banana. Upon bumping up the temperature, it went away and the familiar Laoshan flavors of soybean, fennel, and green lettuce appeared with an underlay of nuttiness.
Not terribly complex and as mentioned had lost some freshness yet still a pleasant drinking experience.
Flavors: Fennel, Lettuce, Pear, Soybean
Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C
0 min, 30 sec
5 g
8 OZ / 230 ML
