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Equusfell drank Yunnan White Jasmine by Verdant Tea

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Incredible.
I just want to breathe air rarified by the scent this tea gives off in the cup. Amazingly sweet and delicate jasmine. Not big and sharp California jasmine, but the tiny fleshy white flowers on the great big waxy-leaved bushes that bloomed for the week I was in Paris. Sweet and lovely, I just want to smell like this all day… Fitting- I’m named after the flower, after all!
The white tea base is some of the best I’ve tried, smooth, without a hint of bitterness. It made my next sample of white tea (Wedding Tea- Harney & Sons) that much less appealing.
What a treat after my horrible presentation yesterday! I shared my cup with a couple ladies in the office, and we all enjoyed it, even the lab mate who’s no fan of tea! I was dreaming of the cup all night, especially once my SO lit our honeysuckle scented candle. The vague smell of the honeysuckle around the house made me pine for another cup of this tea! If that’s not the sign of a keeper, I don’t know what is!

Flavors: Floral, Jasmine, Sweet

Preparation

195 °F / 90 °C 2 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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I started drinking something other than Sleepytime in my first year of grad school, 2011. Enabled by a few decent local tea shops in a big city, I amassed a small cupboard of teas that I now find harsh and bad (haha, I’m getting in too deep!). With my move back to the US and subsequent geographic isolation from tea shops, I recently discovered the world of online tea vendors.
My cupboard is slowly growing but still small. Regardless I am interested in swaps, if you find something in my collection that you would like to try, ask away! I just can’t guarantee yet that I have a lot of it!
I’m very into Jade oolongs and anything that has a floral character (especially jasmine, rose, violet, and lychee scented things!). Most green teas, excepting the extremely bitter, are good in my book, and again I seek sweeter, fresher, greener types, though nutty/savory teas have their place (as long as they don’t tip over into salty!). I then to shy away from smokey or overly roasted teas and for this reason and the fact that I am not a fan of chocolate, everyone’s favorite blacks and wuyi oolongs tend to fall flat for me. White teas are alright but I don’t tend to reach for them unless they are floral scented. I rarely drink herbals, chamomile and I do not get along, but a basic vanilla rooibos, or some flavored green rooibos’ can be interesting.
In general, it could be said that I tend toward floral and sweet oolong, sheng (as well as moonlight whites and yabaos), matcha, and green teas.

As of now my rating system follows the school grading scale in terms of how well the tea performs and how well I like it (100-90 A, 89-80 B, etc.). Anything above 90 will eventually end up in my cupboard, though it’s fine to keep a B student around for daily drinkers!

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Athens, Ohio

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