17°C, phone weather app? Really? I highly doubt it as that must surely be the warmest 17°C ever measured. It was definitely more like somewhere between 20 and 25! I absolutely refuse to believe otherwise.
Anyway, this warm, summery weather has put me in the mood of something green, and therefore I turn towards a tea that Autumn Hearth shared with me an embarrassingly long time ago. She sent me a whole little green tea education that time, but I never managed to make it through all of the things she sent me, as I must have misplaced this and two others. Obviously my old system for storing samples doesn’t work, and my newer system of keeping everything untried in a box on my desk seems to be working much better.
This one smells very fruity. I’m thinking something along a sweet apple sort or possible some sort of stone fruit. Yeah, mostly the latter, actually.
It tastes very sweet too, and it has that fruity note in the flavour as well as the aroma. There’s also a fairly strong mineral note and something that reminds me of some kind of green vegetable. A leafy sort of flavour. I’m not sure what it is. I’m getting thoughts of spinach here, but it doesn’t really taste like spinach at all. That’s just because whenever someone says ‘leafy greens’ to me, spinach is the first thing that comes to mind.
This is quite pleasant. I’m not one to drink an awful lot of green tea. It’s something that I have to be in a very specific mood for these days, but when I do, I’ve noticed that I tend to favour Japanese over Chinese. They generally strike me as having a clearer, crisper flavour profile, where Chinese green tea often strikes me as more sort of thick and murky.
Huh! Looks like I’m the odd duck. I quite enjoyed this and mine is ancient.
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Uh oh! Are you liking Japanese greens now? Cause if you are, there’s something I totally need to stick in your next tea package!
Yeah, but… when in the right mood. I’ve always preferred them over Chinese greens. It’s not a type I ever go out and buy unless it’s some kind of flavoured thing. I generally prefer green tea fruit-flavoured in some way.
Ah yes, I remember now – we only have twin tastes in black tea! :D
Uh oh! Are you liking Japanese greens now? Cause if you are, there’s something I totally need to stick in your next tea package!
Yeah, but… when in the right mood. I’ve always preferred them over Chinese greens. It’s not a type I ever go out and buy unless it’s some kind of flavoured thing. I generally prefer green tea fruit-flavoured in some way.
Ah yes, I remember now – we only have twin tastes in black tea! :D