Ancient Emerald Lily

Loose

Appearance: large, bicolored curled leaf, green tones
Aroma when Dry: sweet, creamy nutty, herby, fuzzy, hints of floral notes
After water is first poured: nutty, buttery, sweet, floral, cream
At end of steep: buttered seaweed
Tea liquor:
At end of steep: light spring green
Staple? Yes
Preferred time of day: Any
Taste:
At first?: bodied buttery grass notes with salt close
As it cools?: salt notes mellow,chestnut and other nutty notes surface
Additives used (milk, honey, sugar etc)? No
Lingers? Yes, buttery, vegital notes, sprinkled in sea salt. slight grass astringency on close as it cools

Second Steep (5 min)
Taste: sea veggie broth

Day 3: Riding the mountain hills til my body’s sore, and enjoying the peaces and quite before my crazy cousins and little nephew show up :)

Came down to the coffee shop and decided to try this tea, definitely not my brightest idea… :P This might have been a good tea at some point, but I think the leaves have been sitting around in this coffee shop for way too long.

There’s a bit of plum and seaweed notes, but the overriding flavor I get is raw oyster. It’s drinkable, but pretty bad. I almost never add sweetener to green tea, but adding little honey to this made it taste alright.

I found this at Whole Foods the other weekend, and remembered it was on my shopping list. It’s a little more tannic than I expected – and I even steeped it a shorter amount of time than they reccomended. I think I will pick more up and play with the parameters because I’m not really liking this cuppa as much as I hoped to.

I received this from Mel in a swap, thanks!
This is very very good; honey-sweet and has a nice flowery taste. It left a strong aftertaste and made you want to just keep taking sips. It was gone before I knew it!

The 2nd and 3rd steeps were still somewhat flowery, but lost a noticeable amount of flavor compared to the first, so I couldn’t give it a 90 or more. I would consider buying this one at some point.

On the first steeping I didn’t detect any real flower-like taste. However, on the second steeping there is most definitely a flower note, probably because the more nutty/savory taste is much more muted.

I ran out of green tea (gasp) and grabbed this at Whole Foods to hold me over. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. It was floral and nutty at the same time. I drank a whole testubin full :)

I just placed an order with Rishi (last day for 20% off with their mother’s day code!) So I’m trying to finish off some of my last round from them. I was looking forward to this one, but tragically didn’t rinse my filter well enough after washing it, so lost a whole mug to soap :(

More rinsing and a fresh batch of leaves makes a better cup, but now I’m paranoid and keep thinking I taste soap. Arg! It is being a little bitter, but I probably just used too much leaf…

I finally opened my tin of this this week. I bought this on a whim at Whole Foods.

I love the flavor when it cools down for 5 minutes, that’s perfection. I love the aftertaste. It’s an interesting taste, can’t really compare it to another green tea though it fits the genre. I get a roasted corn aftertaste, too. Interesting and lovely. Worth a try, for sure.

An excellent light, nutty and mellow green tea that has more aroma and nuance than outright flavor. Do not drink at work or when otherwise occupied; you’ll need to focus to really appreciate this one’s lightness.

I haven’t developed the palate or vocabulary to describe green teas, so I’ll defer to others’ descriptions here. The leaves definitely smell like hay (in a nice nature way, not in a way that conjures up images of horses and petting zoos). I keep wondering if I’ve under steeped because the color is so light, almost like white tea, and the flavor is slightly stronger than water. But I steeped for the recommended 6 minutes and I think I even used more leaves than recommended. So…hmmm…I’m undecided on this. I think I like it, but its not anything I’m going to crave in the future.