Surprise review from someone in hiding for months…
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Why is Pretty Girls a motherfucker? Is it just because of the wrapper (https://www.instagram.com/p/BBAQWzIl_lQ/?taken-by=paxl13)? Let me tell you why.
Take a chunk off of your cake. Don’t even measure it, just eyeball it to about 10g or whatever suits you. Okay, yeah, it’s pricier than your “average” shou, but what is average when you’re only spending $2 for a session of tea? Anyway. it’s not too compressed, so just a quick rinse – or even drink it if you don’t like wasting tea.
Here we go, steeps 1-6 come on strong like a pretty girl. Taste all the rich depth of flavor from the gongting and highest grade leaves. So smooth and creamy at first – notes of earthy wood and hints of chocolate tips. Keep going to later steeps, transitioning to sweetness for the long haul. You think this relationship is meant to last forever, the taste lingering on your tongue.
And then it hits you.
The lower grade leaves try to carry the flavor for a little bit longer. Reminiscent of what once was.. you find yourself on steep 15, struggling to feel the same warmth of your first few steeps of exciting energy. It’s gone. Time to move on to another tea.
And that is why Pretty Girls is a motherfucker.
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I truly love your write-up of this tea :-D
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uggggh This has been sitting in the doomcart since its release…
I was quite enamored of this tea when I first had it, and today I took it out for a spin again, this time paying closer attention to the flavor of each steep. I have to say, your review is pretty much spot on. That tea is absolutely gorgeous in the middle steeps, then she pretty much dumps you without so much as a “I’ll call you….”
If Paul offered (as a cake or as loose) whichever part of this blend that makes this cake so incredible, I would buy that in a heartbeat, and I’d happily pay a premium for it.
So are the ~6 good steeps from this Pretty Girl before she dumps you worth the price of admission?
I truly love your write-up of this tea :-D
Want!
uggggh This has been sitting in the doomcart since its release…
I was quite enamored of this tea when I first had it, and today I took it out for a spin again, this time paying closer attention to the flavor of each steep. I have to say, your review is pretty much spot on. That tea is absolutely gorgeous in the middle steeps, then she pretty much dumps you without so much as a “I’ll call you….”
If Paul offered (as a cake or as loose) whichever part of this blend that makes this cake so incredible, I would buy that in a heartbeat, and I’d happily pay a premium for it.
So are the ~6 good steeps from this Pretty Girl before she dumps you worth the price of admission?