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Spring 2018 harvest shouldn’t be stale, but it is. The rinse gave me a clue when sour milk hit my nose, grape nuts cereal, vegetal. No liquor aroma. Drying. All steeps tasted like spoiled salted butter and tropical fruit that moved between passionfruit and guava. Shame it’s stale because I’m always surprised by those elusive tropical fruit notes in Taiwanese oolong. Rare that I throw away a tea but the last 5g met their fate with the compost instead of boiling water.