Wild Green Tea

Yay, it finally feels like spring!

Brewed in a glass gaiwan with lid off and modest with the leaf. Light and clean, silky brisk-sweet. Transparent blue-green taste like buffalo grass in spring water, hint of earth. Gently sweet finish with vibrant mineral-salty lingering tingle like the Wild White Tea.

Brewed western in a mason jar with longer infusion, the green sweetness of buffalo grass become more concentrated. Does it remind me of tarragon? I think I also get a short ripe apricot aftertaste. Can get bitter in a grassy way.

Ambient brewed with 7g in 32oz gives a cloudy spring green liquor that’s pretty different in taste compared to a hot steep. Mild green taste and refreshing sweetness with hints of light vanilla; no brisk, earthy tannins or mineral saltiness to be found, nor any apricot.

Pleasure in simplicity.

First tea from the Georgian tea group buy.

Dark green strands resembling Huangshan Mao Feng. Dry leaf is fairly odorless until dropped in a heated vessel where it emits a faint green bean aroma.

This one tastes more like sheng puerh than a green tea to me. Golden yellow liquor with hay and straw flavors and a light fruitiness. Has that earthy-woodsy sheng type flavor going on. Ordinarily not a flavor profile I’m fond of – I prefer fresh tasting green tea – but here it’s fairly enjoyable because the earthiness is soft and doesn’t have the bitterness and smokey flavor often found in puerh.

Hey guys! Don’t be afraid to write notes of those teas! Even bad ones.

I am very surprised that noone wrote a single line and a few of you got them already. Hopefully this note can change it a bit.

Because I have tried it today, two or three pinches (I haven’t weighted it) and used quite hot water (it was boiling, but resting on the stove-top for a few minutes). So, sadly I don’t know the temperature either. Prepared western in large basket-strainer.

Anyway, after a short steeping time — it was 2 minutes at maximum, I got bright green liquid which had aroma of sweet grass. Buffalo grass? I don’t know names of grasses.

The brew is silky smooth with light mineral/again sweet grass notes. Aftertaste is very sweet and very enjoyable. As I had 50 grams, I have a plenty to try this more, with many different steeping parameters, methods etc.