13 Tasting Notes
Kid stuff. This was a mild green, faintly sweet and grassy in balance, and inadequate weight for my tastes. I prefer more viscosity, which this tea just didn’t provide, at both 2 minute and 4 minute first-steeps. This tea tasted like the tail-end of a strawberry aqua fresca, after the ice has long melted into the last traces of crushed fruit. This could be nice chilled, with honey and a touch of lemon.
Preparation
The tea that redeemed LA for me, and I am from the forest. First thing I did in LA was circumnavigate 90210 on foot. No, not star-searching. I was lost, and Dr. Tea found me. I was parched, and Special Green quenched: assertive, grassy sencha taste, with a comfy afterglow of extras: toasted rice and green cardamom, dried fruit and pepper. The ginger is subtle, just enough to round out the astringency. It all works together surprisingly well, with no suggestion of potpourri (I don’t like busy-flavoured teas), though harshly tannic if at all over-steeped. A go-to cuppa; a green to wake you up.