310 Tasting Notes
This smells Very sweet and a bit dark.
The taste is very round and full on the tongue, a rich dark Assam taste without bitterness or burnt flavor at all. It is very sweet/malty around the back of the throat and a bit fruity in the nose. A pleasing taste! There’s also something there with the zinginess of mint without the flavor.
Preparation
I made this gongfu style so take that into account. I wanted to try it this way as I was trying other teas today like so.
It’s good. I like it. The taste is hard to describe. It’s pleasantly sweet and reminds me of barley. It’s light but with a lingering finish, mostly on the front of the tongue.
While I am trading most of my ITFA teas (not that they’re bad, they have all been great quality! Just not favorites for me), I think I’m going to keep this one. Thankfully the sample is huge in this tea club and it’ll last me near forever :D
I definitely suggest trying it if you get the chance!
Preparation
The unsteeped tea smells green and sweet. A very nice sniff lol.
As to flavor, it is good. This is very much a sencha that I would suggest to others, but is not a love for me. I like it, it’s grassy and crisp and sweet and just generally pleasing, but I’m too limited on space to keep anything other than an all-out have-to-have at this point. I look forward to giving it away so that someone else can love it.
Preparation
This is quite a pleasant tea. Not too strong, but flavorful. It’s an interesting blend without any one part standing out from the others. It doesn’t require milk or tea, but I can see how a little agave nectar would do well in it.
Preparation
First steeping: What the others said about smelling like corn is right. It smells like freshly shucked sweet corn or buttered popcorn. Plus a pleasant earthy tone.
The tea is indeed very, very light. Lighter than I tend to like, really. The flavor is less corn and more tastes the way the shucks smell. That plus a light pu-erh earthiness (no fishy or musty taste to this, just earthy). So far it’s indeed a good tea, but not so much for me, personally.
This has a Very Long finish and is very corn-y. It fills up the nose and back of throat strongly.
Second steeping: This brew is Very dark. Surprisingly so, compared to other pu-erhs I’ve had. Still strong corn and Very strong finish.
I recommend it to others, but not for me.
Preparation
Hi,
Always seems I pick on your description. I like what you said about “corn-y. It fills up the nose…etc.” I find it fills up the nose too much. It does brew very dark and yes the corn smell is from beginning to end. You know of the wording ruminating with the scent; or smell of the corn.
Growing in the fields, the little Touchas absorbed what-ever was nearest and in this instant it was corn.
I think of the flower Carnation and how we get food coloring and mix it with water and then placing a carnation in the cup and to have it absorb the liquid and in time, one comes to have a lovely Carnation depicting what-ever color that was to have been in the cup…green, pink, or red food dyes. On St. Patrick’s day we tend to this with green food coloring…making for a lovely green carnation.
Ok. to the graveyard with me then. Good review, but you have not win me over. Not that you were trying to.
I find your judgement odd. I don’t like it should not be why you give a low rating. The tea would have to be deffective and rancid. Bad quality and gross! So is that what you are saying?! This is bad Pu’er? Or you don’t like this kind? If the latter is true than the Pu’er should have more respect. As for personal taste ….because I don’t mark a tea down because of likability. Don’t rate it or be fair and discribe what is there with others in mind.
This one you can get a smell from a couple feet away. Not strong, but there.
This doesn’t have a lot of flavor, to me. It’s a bit sweet in the back of the throat, with a generic “tea taste” on the tongue… but mostly is just seems weak and watery. It tastes like I’d have to use a huge amount more tea for water amount to get a decent flavor going.
Not impressed, not a buyer.
