505 Tasting Notes
9Apr: And now for something completely different…
5g ish, 185F, 150 ml gaiwan
Dry leaf smells of hay and citrus. Leaves are brown and green and twisty. Damp leaves smell of papaya?
10s- fruits I can’t distinguish, 20s- pineapple, mango, papaya. Taste comes out more as it cools. Sweet. 30s – pineapple.
I like it, but it’s not a favorite. 84
Flavors: Citrus, Hay, Mango, Pineapple, Sweet, Tropical
9Apr: 205F, 5g-ish, 150 ml gaiwan
Dry leaf smells of malt and chocolate. 10s- surprisingly dark color, sweet and malty. 20, 30 & 40s- dark chocolate, sweet, malt.
Really good. I’m a little fatigued with chocolate and malty tea lately, but it’s still really good. Total dessert tea even. 90
Flavors: Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Malt, Sweet
8Apr: 205F, 5gish, 150ml gaiwan
Dry leaf smells mineral and sharp.
10s- mineral, sweet. 15s- super fruity kind? I don’t know. Sweet and it lingers from sip to sip. 20s- sweet, fruity, tiny hint of roast. Flavors from 20s steep continued as I increased the time. Ended up doing 12 steeps with the tea. Leaves kept giving flavor, good all the way through. Very, very good. 94
Flavors: Fruity, Mineral, Roasted, Sweet
150 ml gaiwan, 205F, 5gish.
This was a very complex tasting tea. I wasn’t sure what to think about the tea at first. Steeps 1-3 were very different from each other. 10s- floral, smooth and minerally sharp. 20s- mineral, roasted, green and sweet. 30 and 40s main note was sweet and mineral.
I continued drinking this tea for a while. I enjoyed drinking it. 85
Only about 10 more teas to go from What-cha. I might have gone overboard on my order, all the teas I’ve tried have been good. Most very good.
Flavors: Floral, Green, Mineral, Roasted, Smooth, Sweet
165F, 5gish, 150ml gaiwan
I think this is the actual sample I was sent as I don’t order green teas for myself. Dry leaf smells nutty and green. 10s- nutty, sweet 20s- nutty, almost roasted, lingering sweetness I stayed with the flash steeps as I usually don’t like green tea brewed for longer. I was surprised by the flavor and how much of it there was. If I were to stock a green tea, this would probably be it. 83
Flavors: Green, Nutty, Roasted, Sweet
7Apr- Still powering through my What-cha teas. I got a lot of samples. 192F 5gish, 150ml gaiwan
Dry leaf smells of malt, fruit, almost cherry. 7 steeps: 10s to 1min30s. Pretty much smooth dark chocolate throughout . It was a little one note for me. A chocolate one note…I just wanted a little something else. 78
Flavors: Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Smooth
4 apr- I really like this tea. Flavors of caramel, honey, and malt. Smooth. Lingering sweet caramel aftertaste.
I steeped this 7 times in 150ml gaiwan at 175F. I probably could have gotten a few more steeps from the leaves, but I ran out of hot water. I did cold steep them and it was good. 92
I started out this day with a caramel tasting tea that was good but not what I was looking for and ended the day with a caramel tasting tea that was the bomb.
Flavors: Caramel, Honey, Malt, Smooth
105F, 5gish, 150 ml gaiwan
Gentle cinnamon smell to dry leaf. Not an overpowering in your face cinnamon.
10s- gentle cinnamon, malt
20,30s- cinnamon, floral, salty, malt, astringent
40s, 1m, 2m
I liked this tea better during the shorter steeps. It did have a lingering cinnamon aftertaste. Like long after. Need to try this westren.
Flavors: Astringent, Cinnamon, Floral, Malt, Salty