I am finding it really hard to describe this tea, which is both due to its uniqueness and its somewhat underdeveloped identity. At first, I wasn’t very fond of it, but I am starting to warm up to its weird character. There are a lot of unusual fruity and flowery notes, a relatively strong bitterness and a surprisingly long and pungent aftertaste.
In dry form, I can smell something like a mix of sawdust, cookies and sticky rice, while in the empty cha hai there are hints of shisha and coconut milk.
As I mentioned, the tea is bitter, but also sweet, mineral and cooling with a sticky mouthfeel. There are some fleeting flavours like guava, stonefruit pits, dragon fruit, peach, and nectar.
Flavors: Bitter, Coconut, Cookie, Fruity, Guava, Mineral, Nectar, Peach, Rice Pudding, Sawdust, Stonefruit, Sweet, Tobacco, Tropical
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To be honest, I would expect some roasted notes instead of fruity and flowery.
The roast is fairly mild on this one, any roasted notes must have dissipated by now, even though it’s still a young tea. As you can see from the pictures on the website as well, the leaves are indeed mostly dark green here. Thus the oxidation must have been very low too.
To be honest, I would expect some roasted notes instead of fruity and flowery.
The roast is fairly mild on this one, any roasted notes must have dissipated by now, even though it’s still a young tea. As you can see from the pictures on the website as well, the leaves are indeed mostly dark green here. Thus the oxidation must have been very low too.