2013 spring.
This is a fermented purple, but no description of the fermentation process. It tastes to me a bit like Hei cha. Ive gongfu’d this a few different ways & I much prefer it with kid gloves, slight less heat & flash steeps, if I brew hotter & longer a malty taste comes out & it tastes more like a normal black tea & a bit mushed together.
The bag & leaf smell of a sweet/candy I cant place, really lovely aroma. The taste has a thickness like dense water, with the ever-present sour note of purple leaf there.
All the flavours & aromas are hard to place really! Id love a course where you smell every aroma, im not good at this part. It is plant-y like a sheng but has other flavour-colours going on.
I do really prefer my purples with a roast, from my experience with them. I think the char compliments the sour very nicely (zi hong pao for example – I havent tried the light roast version) But this is still nice. Its a bit like the sourness of plum but softer. cool stuff
Flavors: Plants, Pleasantly Sour, Plum
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They have kits you can buy for wine that come with oils bearing the different aromas you can smell in wine :P They’re kind of stupid expensive though lol
I’ll bet they are. The flowers, I know rose & orchid & floral. :flol:
Thinking about it more, sometimes not knowing is better. I make electronic music, & sometimes pick apart a track into its parts instead of just enjoying it. It might be the same with tea, some tea I dont know what it is but it evokes colours, places, emotions. It might be more boring if I knew that it was just ‘gardenia’ or somesuch
Yea I can’t really distinguish many floral flavors myself. Lavender sometimes…probably rose too.
I do agree, sometimes it can be weird picking things apart so much like that. Like watching a movie with somebody who critiques every little aspect like “can’t you just enjoy the movie!?” Though I’ll admit I’m sometimes guilty of that lol.
This is a black/red tea made from purple puerh varietal. It is oxidized and not fermented. Having said that, it is one of the best red teas I’ve ever had. I currently have two bags on hand myself. I get a rose scent from the cup which I actually can taste. A beautiful tea.
‘This is a expertly fermented black tea’ on teh websites. Whos right, you or scott?
Actually, more importantly, in a all-you-can-drink-tea-fight, who would win, you or scott? :)
I didnt get rose, do you remember how you brew for this? I would love to get that
Okay mine is an older version of the tea, perhaps he’s changed it from two years ago. The one I have is definitely not fermented. That might explain the difference in flavor profile. I do gong fu brew the tea, however.
mines the 2013, and I checked on the website & 2013 says fermented.
& I gongfu it, and never got a rose scent. i want my rose scent, damnit!
Im not trying to be argumentative, mine doesnt seem fermented either. But I dont know much about different black tea processing :)
I think Scott might just mean “fermented” in the colloquial sense like people often call black tea fermented
I’ll drink them both under the table…..
They have kits you can buy for wine that come with oils bearing the different aromas you can smell in wine :P They’re kind of stupid expensive though lol
I’ll bet they are. The flowers, I know rose & orchid & floral. :flol:
Thinking about it more, sometimes not knowing is better. I make electronic music, & sometimes pick apart a track into its parts instead of just enjoying it. It might be the same with tea, some tea I dont know what it is but it evokes colours, places, emotions. It might be more boring if I knew that it was just ‘gardenia’ or somesuch
Yea I can’t really distinguish many floral flavors myself. Lavender sometimes…probably rose too.
I do agree, sometimes it can be weird picking things apart so much like that. Like watching a movie with somebody who critiques every little aspect like “can’t you just enjoy the movie!?” Though I’ll admit I’m sometimes guilty of that lol.
This is a black/red tea made from purple puerh varietal. It is oxidized and not fermented. Having said that, it is one of the best red teas I’ve ever had. I currently have two bags on hand myself. I get a rose scent from the cup which I actually can taste. A beautiful tea.
‘This is a expertly fermented black tea’ on teh websites. Whos right, you or scott?
Actually, more importantly, in a all-you-can-drink-tea-fight, who would win, you or scott? :)
I didnt get rose, do you remember how you brew for this? I would love to get that
Okay mine is an older version of the tea, perhaps he’s changed it from two years ago. The one I have is definitely not fermented. That might explain the difference in flavor profile. I do gong fu brew the tea, however.
mines the 2013, and I checked on the website & 2013 says fermented.
& I gongfu it, and never got a rose scent. i want my rose scent, damnit!
Im not trying to be argumentative, mine doesnt seem fermented either. But I dont know much about different black tea processing :)
I think Scott might just mean “fermented” in the colloquial sense like people often call black tea fermented
I’ll drink them both under the table…..