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“Pagoda Tree flower buds. Very interesting! The brew smells savory like marinated then grilled skirt steak and a dash of cocoa with soft cinnamon? The tea is a golden color, sweet and thick and...” Read full tasting note
Tiny Wild-Picked Sophora Blossoms
The Lu Family picks these tiny huai hua blossoms in early spring, carefully drying this caffeine-free herbal to bring out notes of cherry, honey and sesame.
While the He Family produces a beautiful Huai Flower tea of their own, they personally recommended the Lu Family’s stunningly tiny huai blossoms as showing off another side of Laoshan’s unique flavor. The Lu family works with the He Family in the same cooperative, so they collaborate on exciting projects like this one. The Huai Flower is a member of the Sophora family and has sweet rich notes of honey, cherry, licorice and sesame.
Tasting Profile
spice – cola, licorice fruit – muscat grape, cherry floral – honey savory – sesame texture – creamy, tinglingCompany description not available.
Pagoda Tree flower buds. Very interesting! The brew smells savory like marinated then grilled skirt steak and a dash of cocoa with soft cinnamon? The tea is a golden color, sweet and thick and creamy with some background complementary astringency. Very floral perfumey and nectarous — they are flower buds after all. Nutty like sesame-honey candies. Then a flash of that cola flavor. It feels very warm going in but then this most excellent cooling feeling emerges and lingers long with the perfume and natural nutty sweetness.
I never prepare Verdant’s teas according to their parameters because they’re so generic but this time I did. 5g to 8oz, 175F for 20s. This turned out very well in a glass mug with glass infuser. Steeping the second cup now for 30s.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Cocoa, Cola, Cooling, Creamy, Floral, Honey, Nectar, Nutty, Perfume, Sesame, Sweet, Thick
5g of flower buds is a lot. Made 3 cups last night and still going this morning. I will switch up the brewing parameters to see how little material I can use to make a brew that tastes as good as this first attempt. It tastes so much like something that I can’t quite figure out. Honey-nut-cinnamon-cocoa-floral something.
Interesting! I need to look up pagoda tree. I had not heard of it.