Really nice tea. Bang Dong, it seems, is one of my preferred areas, and this one didn’t disappoint. Really nice herbal notes that are restrained by a mushroom savoriness and fruit and chocolate sweetness.
Great complexity and variety of flavor, and super easy to drink, especially for such a young tea.
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Leaf – peach, rock candy, fresh autumn leaves, honeysuckle, date, lemongrass. In preheated vessel – stronger fruit notes – grape, raisin, date
Smell – sweet herbal (parsley, cilantro, fresh grass), char-grilled zucchini, crab apple, mushroom, carob
Taste – mushroom, zucchini, fresh grass, slight bitter herbal / aftertaste of fresh grass, light mint, milk chocolate and carob, lemongrass, light citrus and peach notes, date, hints of fruit leather. Lingering floral note in aftertaste.
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I like this one as well.
I remember some chocolate milk and citrusy notes in the 2014 YS Bangdong too — now, that’s a dense, pungent tea that’s severely gone up in price. It tastes completely different from more recent BD pressings which are much more generically vegetal.
I like this one as well.
I remember some chocolate milk and citrusy notes in the 2014 YS Bangdong too — now, that’s a dense, pungent tea that’s severely gone up in price. It tastes completely different from more recent BD pressings which are much more generically vegetal.