Spring 2016 – I’ve tried this tea quite a few times already with a few different brewing parameters. I just can’t figure this out.
From the bag it smells fresh with a slight nuttiness to it. The leaf is a high grade. Full small leaves. This tea should be amazing….but it’s not. Unless it’s supposed to be like that. I’ve had other dragonwell teas and they didn’t taste like this one.
I can’t remember specifics on this. I know it was vegetal but was missing the chestnut, buttery, or green flavour I get from most greens. Most green teas I brew around 2 minutes or less. This one had very little flavour at 2 minutes. So I brewed it longer and it got stronger but not better. I’m not very good at describing exactly what it tasted like. It wasn’t bitter but just was not appealing to me. Perhaps someone else might really like this tea but it just didn’t suit me.
There is a couple of brewing methods I have not tried yet for this tea: grandpa style or iced. It’s getting pretty cold outside to have iced tea so I guess next on my list is to try this grandpa style.
Flavors: Vegetal
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I couldn’t figure this one out either – never got any great flavors out of it. I ended up doing grandpa style most of the time. Good luck!
I tried last season’s harvest and my experience pretty much matched yours. YS has good teas but their green teas have never really appealed to me.
Recently an astute Redditor noted that Yunnan green teas come from the assamica bush while the rest of China produces tea with camellia sinensis. Assamica is a little more aggressive cultivar which may explain why YS green teas taste a bit different than other Chinese greens.
Yes, I have to wonder about some of the greens from YS. Most have been okay but nothing really amazing out of all the greens I got.
I couldn’t figure this one out either – never got any great flavors out of it. I ended up doing grandpa style most of the time. Good luck!
I tried last season’s harvest and my experience pretty much matched yours. YS has good teas but their green teas have never really appealed to me.
Recently an astute Redditor noted that Yunnan green teas come from the assamica bush while the rest of China produces tea with camellia sinensis. Assamica is a little more aggressive cultivar which may explain why YS green teas taste a bit different than other Chinese greens.
Yes, I have to wonder about some of the greens from YS. Most have been okay but nothing really amazing out of all the greens I got.