This is something that a coworker who attended the Toronto Tea Festival this year brought back for me to try – she got it for free from a vendor, along with a different Nepalese black tea, but she didn’t catch the name of the vendor and the vendor’s name isn’t on the tea packaging either. In fact, there’s NOTHING on the packaging – just a green zip seal bag with a clear peek-a-boo style window…
It’s not a bad tasting green, as far as green teas go, but as I’m sure most of you may have gleaned it’s just not my thing. I really appreciate her thinking of me and bringing it in for me to try, though!
It’s pretty mellow, and the steeped tea smells quite smokey and of uncooked green beans, though steeped up the smoke taste is very, very light and the vegetal quality reminds me a little bit more of iceberg lettuce and shelled, raw peas. The finish is a touch mineral. I prefer this profile over a more grassy/marine tasting green tea but it’s still a little too vegetal for me.