No other tasting notes for a Whispering Pines tea?!?! This is from Daylon R Thomas! Thanks so much! I have been drinking so many Nepal teas lately — all of them different tasting, yet so elusive in describing, that I’m skipping writing tasting notes for many of them… for now. This one is very good. Twisty black leaves with only a hint A HINT of auburn. (But it also looks like my sample has a stray sickle of white tea in there.) The flavor was surprisingly smoky in that first cup! I didn’t expect smoke at all. The brew is crisp, clear, sweet. A medium strength black. The next morning, finishing the dregs when the cup has cooled, the smoke is gone. The flavor is so different this morning that I forgot I didn’t steep a second cup yet. The second steep is much less smoky. I can appreciate the clearness of this tea, the crisp cleanness, which seems the opposite of what otherwise, is mostly a tea with a smoky note. Not bitter or murky at all, though usually I would prefer a murky tea, this one is just a gem.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons for a mug // 18 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 4 min
Flavors: Smoke
