30 Tasting Notes
This is like a white tea beefed up with Raw Pu-erh. The liquor is light and tasty. It is full flavoured despite it’s appearance. This is much more of a white tea for me and shall be a repeat purchase. Sorry I can’t be more specific about the flavour- lets just say it leaves me satisfied where standard white teas often lack oomph.
Preparation
Lovely light tea with a clear appearance. The character is a delightful chocolate taste, which you can first detect when smelling the tea- I could tell there was something sweet. It is a subtle effect, but that little sweetness mixed with the clear white tea taste might just make this one of my new favorites. A solid 90 score from me for now.
Flavors: Chocolate
2nd try end of 2018:
Nutty, perhaps chestnut aroma. Smooth taste. Delicious. I saw someone else talk about ageing tea, so perhaps something has happened here in the past 12-18 months. I have thus changed my score from 48 to a solid 80.
First try 2017:
I find this tea very bland and characterless. I tried cold steeping it too in the fridge and it produces a fresh mountain spring type taste, which is OK, but not as good as green teas I cold steep to save them. This will go to the back of my cupboard.
Flavors: Chestnut, Nutty
Poor and bland tea with no pleasurable characteristics. It just smells and tastes like dusty old wood which has been rotting in a damp cellar for years. There is a very good reason why this tea is so cheap, it is no good. That said, I will probably finish the cake off one day, so it is drinkable.
Flavors: Dust, Wet Wood
Update: My second batch of this tea was disappointingly more vegetal in taste. Therefore, I am reducing my score from 93 to 70.
Outstanding tea. Finally I have found a white tea which excites me. There are fruity notes (not in 2nd batch) which make this a superbly delicious tea, especially in warm climates.
Flavors: Vegetal
Not my cup of tea, tasteless even with different brewing styles.
i tend to taste slight spices and grassy notes similar to a green
I left it for a year. It is still not pleasant. For me this is what water that has collected in old wood in a cellar would taste like. It didn’t age well. I wouldn’t rate it at all now, maybe 10/100. It is going straight in the trash.
