Thanks, Kawaii433, for letting me try this! It’s a tea I wouldn’t have ordered on my own volition because sometimes rose frightens me.
I prepared 5g with longer gongfu steep times, maybe 6 steeps starting at 40s following a short rinse.
This tea turned out to be incredibly light in flavor and aroma. In the dry leaf, I picked up on toasted rice, scalded milk and faint rose. Warming the leaf had additions of cucumber and grass with the rose getting a little stronger. The rinse brought a very pronounced lychee fruit note, followed by grass, grains, rose, light cherry blossom, some kind of yellow flower, milk and light brown sugar.
In the mouth the tea was very oily and viscous for the first few steeps. The tastes were light and refined with milk, jasmine?, minerals, grass, lychee, peach, and scalded milk with a quick finish of butter almost rancid…? Hm. To be honest, I wasn’t picking up on rose. Hm. Light brown sugar returning sweetness. A tad drying but nothing distracting and my mouth was quite tingly. Refreshing and light. After those first two steeps, the flavors became almost imperceptible and the tea lost my attention but I kept going, hoping to pull something else out of it.
Not sure what’s up here since this tea has some good reviews.
Every once in a while I get an itch to order a rose-scented tea and I would like to get more of this in the future to see if there is a difference between harvests. I’d be interested in trying this tea western style for hopefully a few full flavor steeps.
Flavors: Brown Sugar, Butter, Cherry Blossom, Cucumber, Flowers, Grain, Grass, Jasmine, Lychee, Milk, Mineral, Peach, Rose, Toasted Rice
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I will say that I liked that one better when I first had it.
The next few brews were flat.
Rose scented teas, I’d highly recommend the Rose Dragonballs from Teavivre
Appalachian Tea: Thanks for the recommendation. I happened to recently receive, as part of a swap with another Steepster member, a Teavivre rose dragon ball. I’ll be trying it soon since the days are sunny in CA again.
I will say that I liked that one better when I first had it.
The next few brews were flat.
Rose scented teas, I’d highly recommend the Rose Dragonballs from Teavivre
Appalachian Tea: Thanks for the recommendation. I happened to recently receive, as part of a swap with another Steepster member, a Teavivre rose dragon ball. I’ll be trying it soon since the days are sunny in CA again.