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April Sipdown Prompt – a grassy tea

This is another gift from derk! Thank you!

The company offers a really long description on this tea – all about the tea garden and their methods and worth a read if you like that sort of thing.

I steeped this in my smallest porcelain pot and the little spears went ping like pellets of TGY do as they fell in. So cute! I picked them up and dropped them in again just for fun.

The dry leaves smelled like warm peas in buttery juice. This was not at all like the description. I searched for the scent of marigold which is quite distinctive but I didn’t find it. Steeped, the aroma changes completely. I went with their longer style recommendation. Now the broth is savory, like a light Japanese soup broth, as well as sharp grassy. Although I do not smell marigold, I do get that this mouthfeel which is very brisk could remind me of such. The savoriness brings in the pepper note, but not like the heat of peppercorns in chai.

Those hard little spears are now soft and cuddly in texture and color. Second steep went the shorter way, just one minute. Now we have more of the buttered peas aroma and less of the savory soup aroma, but surprisingly this is still quite brisk.

I think lovers of Japanese green teas would like this one. Thanks for the opportunity to try something new out on the patio on a crisp spring morning, derk!