On bringing up to nose the smell of mixed berries, raspberries and blackberries mixed, hits hard. Is strong delightful sweetness of scent before the much harder taste of the tea.
The tea is a light standard black but with no charcoal or cinder to the taste, none of that acrid burnt of often black tea tastes. It has the darkness, but a yellow to the lightness that exists. And a sense of citrus at the very back top of throat.
The sides of the tongue are yellow, too, but with hints of green further you go on them. The yellow is much more burgundy in its depth and shape, as hard as that is to describe or see to others with them being such different colors… But it’s there inside the yellow.
Sweet malt blues under the front of the tongue in the pit behind the front teeth and about 1/2 way backward to base underneath.
As the tea cools those berries come out clearly onto the center tongue where they didn’t show before in the taste itself. They roll over and as the tea comes into the mouth and other favors stay much the same everywhere else. A bit of astringency creeps in as the berries quickly disappear and the rest of the tea mellows into its lower-temp’s finish.
I love the golden, yellow, citrus, dark, red, and berries in full of this yunnan. I’m a fan of yunnans and having that lighter and yellow tones compared to the rich thick darkness I like in assams.
Loving this one.
2.25g/6oz, 205 degrees, 4 minutes
Flavors: Astringent, Berries, Blackberry, Citrus, Malt, Raspberry, Round
Someone else who sometimes can only describe things in colour. Neat! :)
Groovy! Don’t run into others often, that’s for sure. I’m taste/color and pain/color synesthensia person. Are you the same or a personal habit?
In either case, very cool!!