505 Tasting Notes

84

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

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90

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

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94

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

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85

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

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83

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

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80

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

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drank Cookie by Lupicia
505 tasting notes

I like this tea less now that I’m not sick. Somehow the first time I had this, I missed the very buttery? mouth coating effect I get while drinking the tea. I don’t like it. Taste is still pretty good. Not a fan of CTC cut leaves either.

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75

6Apr-2tsp, 208F, 2min
Fruity, strong enough to cut through spicy spaghetti sauce and still be able to taste the tea. 3 min- strong and malty

Flavors: Fruity, Malt

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89

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

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Daylon R Thomas 9 years ago

Its awesome Gong Fu and Western. I’ve been savoring mine and it’s almost gone…

Rasseru 9 years ago

this one is on my list to try

White Antlers 9 years ago

Sometimes I just want to send a few paychecks to Alistair and say “fill ’er up!”

Rasseru 9 years ago

‘what-cha: one good reason to live in the UK’

White Antlers 9 years ago

@Rasseru-I would like to see that as a slogan on a t-shirt! :-D

hawkband1 9 years ago

:)

Rasseru 9 years ago

haha they should make some

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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

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I started my tea journey with Stash/Celestial Seasonings tea bags years ago. All loose leaf, unless I’m sick or traveling.

I like black, oolong, white, herbals, and raw/ripe pu’erh. I don’t drink green tea often.

I play video games, read, and do pottery. My current favorite tea mug is one I threw and glazed.

I generally review teas twice – initial and final steeps.

My cupboard is mostly up to date.

Ratings
85-100 are teas that I loved and want to keep in stock.
71-84 are teas that are good. I may or may not get them again. Source for daily drinkers/work teas.
60-70 are teas that I didn’t like. I’ll finish what I bought.
Anything less than 60…nope.

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