Autumn Laoshan Green

Has an every day type of tea taste. Its not bad but its not super special. Its just a nice everyday type of day. Balanced, not grassy but not sweet. I’m sure the spring offering would be a lot better, I prefer the laoshan black.

This tea has a soybean aroma . It tastes of soybeans with a little bit of nuttiness and a pleasing aftertaste.

tastes like a sunny fall afternoon

This is the first of my teas from my 5 for 5 samples that I have gotten around to drinking. This is a fairly tasty green tea. It is just a little too vegetal for my tastes. That being said I agree with most of the notes on the Steepster writeup for this tea. The one I wonder about is the person who found a cookie note in this tea. Perhaps they brewed it asian style and found that in a later infusion, who knows. I can’t taste anything that sweet although there are some sweet notes here. I added sugar to this and I still don’t get anything that sweet.

I brewed this once, western style in an 18oz teapot with about 3 tsp leaf and 175 degree water for 2 min.

I have no idea how or why, but this tea both smells and tastes like sugar cookies to me. I didn’t add a speck of sweetener to this. Delicious.

A fairly pure green. Nice aftertaste, especially on first couple of brews. After third, it was done.

My 5 for 5 sampler from Verdant Tea just arrived yesterday! This is the first of their teas that I tried. And wow… It’s delicious. This tea is cozy and creamy and smooth, with lots of flavor. I steeped it according to the directions on Verdant’s website, including the short steeping time (30 seconds). It has a wonderful aroma, green and savory— the “soybean” description on the site seems very accurate. And the taste is sweet and creamy. I’ve had greens that tasted buttery to me before, but they were more vegetal in a leafy way, with less of a sweet bean taste like this.

I usually think of green tea as more of a spring/summer kind of drink (at least compared to more oxidized teas). But this one is very autumnal. I had several steepings, and they were excellent. I didn’t notice a vanilla taste like the site described—but I think that’s because I was tasting more cream than vanilla. And I loved the cream note, so I’m not complaining!

I haven’t been drinking much green tea lately, partly because I haven’t found one that I would like to keep as a staple in my cupboard. Well, I think this tea has changed that. I’ll definitely be ordering more. Thank you to Verdant Tea for the sampler—and for the chance to try this delicious tea.

This tea rounded out a lovely meal at The Harriet Brasserie. They provide a good amount of tea in a single use filter, a cup and a pot of hot water, so you can steep it however you like.

I did three short infusions of roughly 30 seconds each. My first impression on the nose and palette was a lot of sweet corn, followed by a bit of vegetal, grain and hay. There was a small amount of bitterness and astringency but not unpleasant.

The second steep was more mellow, but with the same notes. The third steep was a little long and more of the bitterness and astringency came out.

This is a beautiful green. I’m glad to have tried it and I would love to get my hands on some for my cupboard.

I think I originally bought this from Shadowfall? But I sent a lot of it to Mandy in a swap. I made sure to leave one serving for myself, though! I wanted to compare it to the Spring Harvest that I tried before.

This reminds me a lot of genmaicha! It has a toasted grain flavor about it, and the taste of autumn leaves. I also get a rather mellow spinach and squash flavor that reminds me of sencha a bit. The texture is super creamy and it ends up reminding me a bit of soy milk, which I remember from the Spring version as well.

Overall, green tea is not my favorite, but this is a lovely example of a mellow, relaxing green tea. I love the similarity to genmaicha, which is one of my favorite teas. There’s no grassiness or harshness here. Yum!

This is one of the teas from the Verdant sampler pack I ordered last summer (I think?). Although I tried Laoshan Black ASAP to see what all the fuss was about, I’ve been avoiding the rest of the set ever since. It’s not because I wasn’t eager to try the remaining teas, but because I’ve given up on gongfu-style steeping—I just don’t enjoy it—yet sometimes feel like I’m wasting good tea with my lazy Western-style ways. Anyway, today I decided to get over it and jump back in with a (single, large) cup of Autumn Harvest Laoshan Green. And I’m very glad I did. It’s rich and creamy, redolent with flavors of spinach, green beans, asparagus, and even edamame. This is definitely one I’d consider picking up more of at some point.