Pu’er just may be the love of my tea life but coming in a close second is black tea. Not so much flavored black tea but the unflavored stuff. I have been searching for my favorite but there are so many different varieties. There are the chocolaty ones, the roasty ones, the malty ones, the fruity ones and the ones that just kick you in the butt in the morning. This one is fruity. Very fruity.
When I opened my package of tea, I was hit in the face with the smell of dried apricots. It’s the smell of Sundays for me. My Grandma used to give me dried apricots in church when I was a kid to keep me from starting my own mini-riot. The brewed tea tastes very much the same. Dried apricots with a bit of malt. It was pretty perfect. It was more apricot than any apricot flavored tea I have ever tried and apricot is one of my favorite things on the planet so I’m pretty picky. I resteeped this tea four more times increasing by a minute each time. Each resteep maintained the same level of apricot and towards the end got a bit of a nutty note.
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I just got a Mandala order of mostly blacks a few weeks ago. This is one of the ones I have in mind for my NEXT order. Now I know I really have to get some of this one, it sounds wonderful!
It was amazing. I am kind of curious to see if there will ever be a tea from Mandala that I just hate. It’d probably be a white tea…blech.
As a fan of blacks & puers, I haven’t been much of a fan of white teas. But recently I have actually enjoyed a few, in spite of myself. I have to be in the right mood.
I think I’ve had maybe two white teas. Both were blends. Perhaps if I tried one from Mandala or Verdant.
I’m pretty much the same way. I can have black or shu pu’er anytime but I have to be in a particular mindset for oolongs, whites, greens and shengs.
Hmmm this sounds tasty
I just got a Mandala order of mostly blacks a few weeks ago. This is one of the ones I have in mind for my NEXT order. Now I know I really have to get some of this one, it sounds wonderful!
It was amazing. I am kind of curious to see if there will ever be a tea from Mandala that I just hate. It’d probably be a white tea…blech.
As a fan of blacks & puers, I haven’t been much of a fan of white teas. But recently I have actually enjoyed a few, in spite of myself. I have to be in the right mood.
I think I’ve had maybe two white teas. Both were blends. Perhaps if I tried one from Mandala or Verdant.
I’m pretty much the same way. I can have black or shu pu’er anytime but I have to be in a particular mindset for oolongs, whites, greens and shengs.
Hmmm this sounds tasty