2024 San Xia Organic Bi Luo Chun Green Tea from TheTea

2024 San Xia Organic Bi Luo Chun Green Tea

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Herbal, Lime, Spicy, Vegetable Broth, Apple, Asparagus, Bitter, Burdock, Butter, Creamy, Floral, Grass, Green, Licorice Root, Nutty, Peas, Pungent, Smooth, Soil, Sour, Umami, Vegetal
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Certification
Organic
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Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 0 min, 30 sec 5 g 3 oz / 100 ml

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  • “Distinctly herbal, vegetable broth, a little spicy, some lime, some oolongish florality. I’m not usually a big fan of non-Japanese green teas, but this one is excellent. Very distinctive, very...” Read full tasting note
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  • “One of the earliest teas from this year is this fabulous Taiwanese green tea. It wonderfully blends the profiles of green Baozhong oolongs and Laoshan green teas. The dry leaf aroma is crisp with...” Read full tasting note
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First 2024 green tea comes to us from Taiwan! Taste the freshness.

San Xia, northern Taiwan, is famous from producing Biluochun green tea, which they are Taiwanese interpretation of famous Biluochun from Jiangsu, mainland China.

This Biluochun comes from natural garden and it was processed using only traditional methods and the amount available is really limited.

Dry leaves smells strongly flowery and “juicy”, little bit herbal – they are strong with fair amount of young leaves and buds.

Taste is fullbodied with notes of orchid, grass and vegetal freshness. When brew in lower temperatures tea shows nice umami.

Bitterness is here but it’s balanced and makes this tea stronger and more interesting.

Origin: San Xia, New Taipei, Taiwan

Harvest: end of February 2024

Tea cultivar: Qing Xin

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Distinctly herbal, vegetable broth, a little spicy, some lime, some oolongish florality. I’m not usually a big fan of non-Japanese green teas, but this one is excellent. Very distinctive, very unlike any mainland Bi Luo Chun I’ve had, that vivid raw herbal edge is something else. I recommend grandpa-style or pushed hard, it really benefits from strong long brews.

Flavors: Herbal, Lime, Spicy, Vegetable Broth

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One of the earliest teas from this year is this fabulous Taiwanese green tea. It wonderfully blends the profiles of green Baozhong oolongs and Laoshan green teas.

The dry leaf aroma is crisp with hints of grass, dry soil, and apples. Later, it gets very vegetal and a little floral. In the gaiwan, I can smell peas, burdock, and fern.

The liquor has a smooth, creamy mouthfel and a pungent, green and buttery taste at first. There is also a decent umami and flavours of asparagus and peas, as well as some sweet wood, almost licorice, in the aftertaste. Later steeps get more, nutty, bitter and sour, which is a nice evolution to observe.

Flavors: Apple, Asparagus, Bitter, Burdock, Butter, Creamy, Floral, Grass, Green, Licorice Root, Nutty, Peas, Pungent, Smooth, Soil, Sour, Umami, Vegetal

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 0 min, 30 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
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