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“Gongfu! Back home and starting my morning with a tea session of this Chinese green tea from the rather unknown origin of Guizhou! Maybe it’s the weather, but I’ve just really been drinking a lot...” Read full tasting note
Imagine a tea origin that nobody has heard about, yet somehow produces more tea than all of Japan.
Guizhou is world-famous as the origin of ‘Maotai’, one of China’s most treasured distilled spirits; it sells for hundreds of dollars (thousands, for older vintages) in liquor stores worldwide. Yet Guizhou is barely recognized beyond China’s borders for another treasure: tea! Located at the edge of the Tibetan plateau, bordering some of China’s most famous tea origins (Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hunan), Guizhou’s mineral-rich soils produce some stunning tea.
Credit to our good friend Mimi Chiu (a Hongkonger who spent many of her school years in Vancouver) for introducing us to Guizhou teas
O stands for our obsession with Origin. We travel the world building strong bonds with farmers and sourcing rare tea from remote villages. We want your cup to tell the story of the earth on which the tea grew and the hands that lovingly harvested each leaf. FIVE represents Natureʼs elements: Earth, Water, Wind, Fire and Void. In harmony, these elements express tea leaves into an outstanding cup. Welcome to our tea bar! We see it as a space to host friends, share and experiment.
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Back home and starting my morning with a tea session of this Chinese green tea from the rather unknown origin of Guizhou! Maybe it’s the weather, but I’ve just really been drinking a lot more green tea than I usually do. This one was so fresh and aromatic, with a smoother medium-body and a lot of really bean-like vegetal notes and nuttiness. Edamame, Brazil nuts, roasted chestnuts, brown butter, and turnips all sprung to mind at various points in the session. There was also this very hard to nail down slightly pithy and bitter fruity top note – like the rind of a lime, but more dried and less zesty and lively!?
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKQJbaKStaH/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhhHXlC85xA&ab_channel=JaceCameron
