Am running a little tea demo course and ordered teas from YS due to a very limited budget and bc I didn’t want to gamble with Verdant again lol. Anyway, have 6 teas, which I ran through today with a friend (more beginner to tea) over the course of 4 hours, and so these are quick impressions and transcribed from notes, and are somewhat haphazardly done.
August 2021. 2.2g, 60 mL gaiwan (actuality is less practical volume), 212f brita filtered water.
Dry: umami, green, seaweed, tree leaves
Did a couple steeps together combined before pouring. Wet leaves smell coalesced with the taste in the most bizarre taste that I’ve ever gotten from a TGY. Outside of the brothy aspect and vegetal sweetness to the tea, slight umami aftertaste, not much sweetness to that. The lasting impression was the smell, something uncannily reminiscent of the spring pollinated and summer blooming flowers (weeds? they’ve got little light purple blossoms, grow in clumps, and have been around forever and seem always surrounded by all sorts of bees and wasps and other scary bugs that can sting) behind my parents’ business combined with cut grass. This may sound nice, but to taste it in tea was bizarre, unpleasant, and unsettling. Borderline nauseating for the friend who apparently suffers from allergies lol. Poor way to cap off the session.
0.50c/g. Neither of us finished our cup, and yet will retain memories of this one for all the wrong reasons. Pass.
Again, wish I could post pictures, but our leaves were shockingly green, like kale or spinach, but even greener, nothing pale green like the ones in the picture on YS US site.
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You should be able to upload a photo by editing the tea entry.
I always thought it was more reserved for direct vendor supplied marketing pics? Since there can only be one shown.
If there was a way to add it to review directly, it’d be best, but I guess I could upload a pic elsewhere and link to that. If people aren’t scared off enough by this review already, the photos won’t help, hahah! For anyone reading, take my word for this one: tuition.
I added a few “official” ones from Yunnan Sourcing’s website to the tea entry (most companies don’t add images on here themselves). However, I totally support you also uploading your own photo if you feel inclined – either to the tea entry page’s “image reel” or as a link on your review. It would make a good reference, especially considering the company’s disclaimer: “Actual colors of the tea may vary somewhat from pictured.”
You should be able to upload a photo by editing the tea entry.
I always thought it was more reserved for direct vendor supplied marketing pics? Since there can only be one shown.
If there was a way to add it to review directly, it’d be best, but I guess I could upload a pic elsewhere and link to that. If people aren’t scared off enough by this review already, the photos won’t help, hahah! For anyone reading, take my word for this one: tuition.
I added a few “official” ones from Yunnan Sourcing’s website to the tea entry (most companies don’t add images on here themselves). However, I totally support you also uploading your own photo if you feel inclined – either to the tea entry page’s “image reel” or as a link on your review. It would make a good reference, especially considering the company’s disclaimer: “Actual colors of the tea may vary somewhat from pictured.”