I’m starting to worry I’m the only one still drinking Verdant tea I’ve had to add so many of their teas to the database.
Oh God the difference a decade makes. Anything older than 2006 is always so fundamentally different from anything younger.
The leaf is like nothing I’ve seen. It is big, soft, largely intact.
The dry leaf has almost no aroma at all except a deep, base note earthiness.
The wet leaf is ancient forest soil after a steady autumn rain. But there’s no “storage humidity” here, amazingly enough.
The cup is sweet, dusty, thick, lingering and soft.
This.
This is tea.
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Yes. I have noticed you are the only one writing about them.
I find that sad. The teas they’ve offered for years are wonderful and the new teas they’re bringing online are even better — including some newly sourced pu-erh which will be much more solid in terms of provenance compared to what a lot of people are drinking and without resorting to Westerners stepping in to produce the tea themselves (which bothers me as a business model).
The sheng Olympics will have some of their new ones in it.
Yes. I have noticed you are the only one writing about them.
I find that sad. The teas they’ve offered for years are wonderful and the new teas they’re bringing online are even better — including some newly sourced pu-erh which will be much more solid in terms of provenance compared to what a lot of people are drinking and without resorting to Westerners stepping in to produce the tea themselves (which bothers me as a business model).
The sheng Olympics will have some of their new ones in it.