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drank Yunnan by Cornelia Bean
894 tasting notes

Adulting is hard sometimes, so today I decided I’m just not going to do it. I got up early to do responsible stuff, then went back to bed till noon. This will be my second cup of tea for the day, and for breakfast I ate half a box of chocolate truffles. I should probably get some real food into me sooner or later, but I dunno. Maybe I’ll just sit around in my robe and have tea and chocolate until I start to regret it.

This dry leaf is much darker and less golden than a lot of the Yunnans I’ve been drinking as of late. It smells less sweet and bready, and more intense. I don’t want to use the word harsh, but there’s a certain rough quality to the fragrance.

Steeping, the cup smells faintly smokey. Under the smokey note there’s molasses. That gets me excited.

This is a nice tasting cup. Definitely a bit smokey, with some sweetness and a nice, full mouth flavour. Slightly meaty, rich, notes of fruit and malt into the finish. Mildly astringent. The smokiness of this reminds me of lapsang souchong.

Not my usual kind of yunnan but I’m really enjoying this.

Flavors: Astringent, Fruity, Malt, Meat, Molasses, Smoke

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
OMGsrsly

My vote is for robe, tea and chocolate.

Fjellrev

I’m with OMG on this one.

OMGsrsly

I went back to bed, and now I’m making pasta in my PJs. :)

Nicole

“tea and chocolate till I start to regret it”

This is a perfect statement. I love it!

carol who I absolutely agree. :D And I love the concept of “adulting”. I’ll have to remember to use that with my friends! Oh and you forgot to mention a good book with the tea and chocolates.
Lindsay

I agree so, SO much with both “Adulting is hard” and “Maybe I’ll just sit around in my robe and have tea and chocolate until I start to regret it”. hugs (if you like ’em)

Anlina

OMGsrsly – Go you!

I did hang out for a while longer in my robe, but eventually went out for physio and then came back to my sweetie’s place and made dinner and ate like half a pie.

OMGsrsly

Yum! :D

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OMGsrsly

My vote is for robe, tea and chocolate.

Fjellrev

I’m with OMG on this one.

OMGsrsly

I went back to bed, and now I’m making pasta in my PJs. :)

Nicole

“tea and chocolate till I start to regret it”

This is a perfect statement. I love it!

carol who I absolutely agree. :D And I love the concept of “adulting”. I’ll have to remember to use that with my friends! Oh and you forgot to mention a good book with the tea and chocolates.
Lindsay

I agree so, SO much with both “Adulting is hard” and “Maybe I’ll just sit around in my robe and have tea and chocolate until I start to regret it”. hugs (if you like ’em)

Anlina

OMGsrsly – Go you!

I did hang out for a while longer in my robe, but eventually went out for physio and then came back to my sweetie’s place and made dinner and ate like half a pie.

OMGsrsly

Yum! :D

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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