A while back I supported a Kickstarter campaign for Dachi Tea. I kind of forgot about it to be honest. I’m not an Oolong lover. But I figure I want to support new tea ventures, because TEA, right? Well, today i received a package of four 10 gram samples from Dachi, sent all the way from Taipei City in Taiwan to Fargo in North Dakota. I received this one, Iron Goddess, Frozen Summit, and Honeysuckle, and this one won.
My description might be awkward and amateur-ish, because 1) I have no sense of smell and thus don’t taste much and 2) I am still pretty new at drinking high quality teas. So, please bear with me as I try to tell you what this tea is like:
The dry tea is greenish, black, and golden brown leaves rolled into irregularly shaped pellets. I think these are called pearls? I put 6 pellets into a T-Sac and steeped in almost boiling water for 2 minutes. The resulting tea is very pale and delicate in color. The tea tastes (and again, please remember I can’t taste much because of no sense of smell) smooth. There is no sourness or bitterness in this tea. It is not cloying or sweet. It seems to have light body to me and a pleasant mouthfeel. I really can’t bear bitterness, sourness or astringency, so this tea passes my personal test for a good tea. I am really interested in hearing what a smelling person thinks of this tea.
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i had to read this twice…because i hadn’t read your bio yet about sense of smell. I was like smelling person? :) That must make for a really interesting tea time!
Anosmia is a pain. I have memories of what tea smells like. I specifically remember the scent of the apricot ginger tea from Mrs. Kelly’s. It was marvelous. I really miss that, and I go through periods of feeling intensely sorry for myself. But there’s no cure for nasal polyps so the best I can do is try to enjoy what I can and not think about the rest. :)
I’m so sorry you have to go through that, Maddy. :(
Thanks! I always hope they’ll have come up with some new treatment for nasal polyps, but there doesn’t seem to be. It’s estimated that 2 to 5 million Americans are anosmic, and possibly as many as 16 million have some loss of smell. Why doesn’t the medical community come up with a treatment for nasal polyps? Oh, yeah, because they’re too busy finding dozens of treatments for the 5% of American men with erectile dysfunction. Silly me. (Not that I’m bitter about that, of course. I love eating stuff that tastes like salted cardboard while watching attractive older couples waiting for the “right moment.”)
oh man i’m really sorry you have to go through that, to echo my dear swedish chef. I can’t even imagine..
I lost my sense of taste for a few months about four years ago(I’m not sure what caused it, and it wasn’t loss of smell). It was awful. Not the same but I know a tiny bit of what you’re going through. I hope they find a cure!!
Thanks, everyone! Look at the bright side: cleaning the cat box doesn’t bother me a bit. :D
i had to read this twice…because i hadn’t read your bio yet about sense of smell. I was like smelling person? :) That must make for a really interesting tea time!
Anosmia is a pain. I have memories of what tea smells like. I specifically remember the scent of the apricot ginger tea from Mrs. Kelly’s. It was marvelous. I really miss that, and I go through periods of feeling intensely sorry for myself. But there’s no cure for nasal polyps so the best I can do is try to enjoy what I can and not think about the rest. :)
I’m so sorry you have to go through that, Maddy. :(
Thanks! I always hope they’ll have come up with some new treatment for nasal polyps, but there doesn’t seem to be. It’s estimated that 2 to 5 million Americans are anosmic, and possibly as many as 16 million have some loss of smell. Why doesn’t the medical community come up with a treatment for nasal polyps? Oh, yeah, because they’re too busy finding dozens of treatments for the 5% of American men with erectile dysfunction. Silly me. (Not that I’m bitter about that, of course. I love eating stuff that tastes like salted cardboard while watching attractive older couples waiting for the “right moment.”)
oh man i’m really sorry you have to go through that, to echo my dear swedish chef. I can’t even imagine..
I lost my sense of taste for a few months about four years ago(I’m not sure what caused it, and it wasn’t loss of smell). It was awful. Not the same but I know a tiny bit of what you’re going through. I hope they find a cure!!
Thanks, everyone! Look at the bright side: cleaning the cat box doesn’t bother me a bit. :D