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“This tea is listed as white but it appears from the YS description to really be a green. I was curious how a white bi luo chun is compared to a green bi luo chun. Well, there’s really not much...” Read full tasting note
“This is a slightly sweet, slightly floral white tea. As it is pure bud it is probably high in caffeine so I will want to drink it only in the morning. A year ago I suspect I would not have liked...” Read full tasting note
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Yunnan SourcingThis tea is listed as white but it appears from the YS description to really be a green. I was curious how a white bi luo chun is compared to a green bi luo chun. Well, there’s really not much difference which is another reason why I believe this is just really a green tea. The description at YS website says it’s a cross between the classic Jiangsu Bi Luo Chun and the Yunnan large leaf varietal yielding a delicate Bi Luo Chun that can grow in cooler altitude conditions.
I brewed this tea Western style this morning. Nothing fancy and it’s delicious. It has a chestnut sweetness along with mossy flavour . There’s also a bit of fruit I’m tasting. It is quite delicate, not a strong green tea but still lots of flavour. This is a very good tea. I am now tempted to order the 2015 Spring version of this.
Thanks Allan for the sample.
Flavors: Chestnut, Fruity, Moss, Sweet
This is a slightly sweet, slightly floral white tea. As it is pure bud it is probably high in caffeine so I will want to drink it only in the morning. A year ago I suspect I would not have liked this tea but my tastes are changing. I now like a lot of floral teas. The flavor used to bother me. This is an excellent tea. I got it at the Yunnan Sourcing 20% off sale a couple of weeks ago. At that point I had been going under the prevailing theory that white and green tea have less caffeine. Articles recently posted on Steepster suggest this may be false, ah well.
I brewed this once in a 16oz Teavana Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and 185 degree water for 2 min.
Flavors: Floral
All things the same the cooler the water the less caffeine(and other compounds you extract). Unfortunately two teas are never the same due to geographic differences in soil, sunshine, also differences in cultivar, age of bush/tree (caffeine is a natural pesticide for plants), season it is plucked, how often the bush/tree is plucked and finally the processing. Saying a certain category of tea has a certain caffeine is too much of a blanket statement. The only time such a statement can be used is with plantation tea of big box retailers because by definition retail are looking for a standardized consistency
This book is the only one I am aware of that did proper scientific experimentation to get exact mgs of caffeine and theanine but once again they referenced very specific teas from a agriculture product that is no long available for purchase but at the very least you can have a better understanding or reference point.
Best rule of thumb
Higher bud to leaf ratio, higher caffeine
Caffeine example eg; all buds > 1 bud to 1 leaf > 2 leaves to 1 bud, etc
also summer generally has most caffeine where as spring has most theanine VERY generally speaking
Neat, I did not know this Jiang Luo.
