What's the most fragrant tea that you have tasted?
In my spare time, I like to have a drink for myself. Sometimes I make a cup of coffee, most of the time is to make tea for myself. I particularly like to drink green tea, especially jasmine green tea, it smells fresh and persistent. What kind of fragrant tea do you like best? Welcome to share that with me.
I hardly drink green tea. I like the taste of black tea. Dianhong, which I drank yesterday is very good. Its so fragrant!!
If we’re talking straight teas, nothing beats the heady floral aroma of Taiwanese oolongs and Tie Guan Yin.
In regards to scented tea, my favorites are white jasmine, cherry blossom sencha, and pomelo flower teas
Speaking of oolong, I personally prefer the hairy crabs oolong tea(some people call it Maoxie oolong),and ginseng oolong tea, both of them are very well taste.
I might just ramble a little on a related tangent instead, but I will mention some teas (maybe Dan Cong have been most “fragrant,” to cut to that part). It seems in descriptions by Chinese producers they separate tea aspects into either taste or aroma categories (and of course go on about feel aspects, aftertaste, and qi, effects of tea). Aroma is pretty close to “fragrance,” it’s just that they seem to use the terms in specific ways. It takes tasting examples of teas and discussing it with them to sort out exactly what the sense means.
As an example, Ya Shi or Duck Shit Dan Cong tends to be aromatic, and Mi Lan Xiang or Honey Orchid Fragrance seems to be more flavor oriented. That’s just my take, and I really have more experience with Wuyi Yancha than those oolongs, it just works better to cite the separation in those based on types I’ve tried. I’ve compared Jin Jun Mei versions (a different type of buds-only Fujian black tea) that accentuated either flavor or aroma, so it seems possible for one tea type to emphasize completely different ranges, presumably based on processing variations. Among Wuyi Yancha a Bei Dou I tried was particularly aromatic (a cultivar type tied to Da Hong Pao, but that story gets complicated), and a Qi Lan. That may have just been those versions but general descriptions of Bei Dou have cited that as a typical aspect. Taiwanese oolongs and Tie Guan Yin, typically prepared as lighter oolongs, are a different story, but they can also be aromatic / fragrant.
Really all the parts of flavors but basic tastes (sweet, salty, etc.) that are picked up by the tongue are carried by aromatic components to be sensed in the rear-lower nasal passages, so the split between flavor and aroma (fragrance, assuming the two are the same) is a bit unusual, but it does mean something. It’s hard to describe what that is though. Some flavor range is more like aspects in flowers or liquor, more subtle, and that’s part of it.
Oh,,,Jasmine green tea! It must be Jasmine green tea which matching with fresh jasmine!! I’ve been drinking this kind of green tea. I fell in love with its fresh and persistent fragrance.
My friend gave me some longjing tea last month. The tea leaves smells fragrant. I don’t care if longjing tea is green tea or not. Any way, I like to drink it so much.
Jasmine green tea is the mixture of scenting tea leaves with fresh jasmine flowers, offering a special taste of the mixed fragrance of tea and flowers. It tastes soft and fresh. I really like the one i got it here: http://www.colorfultea.com/jasmine-green-tea.html
Hope you will like it.
The taste of Biluochun tea is also delicious. Is it belong to green tea? The tea looks almost all the same,it is too difficult for me to distinguish them…
no offense intended, but are you guys bots?
Other than LuckyMe I think so… It’s kind of scary that the bots are starting to have (almost) realistic conversations :O
how do I know for sure you and LuckyMe aren’t bots? that would be cool if the first example of AI that passes the Turing test turns out to be bots talking about tea on Steepster.
I doubt they are bots, just trying to market their colorfultea website I would guess.
Bots definitely can’t smell things, but I’ve been researching for a post related to that. Machines can duplicate a lot of what we do when we smell now. How that works out, and how it can be analyzed is a long story. They’re a lot closer than you might imagine to doing very similar things, even the judgement part, just quite far from putting it all together.
A well known haiku:
“There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can’t bridge”
I could use a subroutine to do something about all the repetition, or to flag the blatant plagiarism
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