After a rinse, the wet leaves smell smokey and savoury, like vegetable soup. 3g/50mL.
The first steep, 10s, is subtle and borderline sweet. Second and third steeps were much stronger, brothy, smokey. I let this one get away from me while playing videogames, but didn’t really find it as distinct as the other two samples. Mostly got vegetables and a minerally note.
Disclaimer: I work for Murchie’s Tea and Coffee as a taster and blender. I will avoid putting any ratings on teas from them from here on out.
A tea-drinking transgendered Canadian, university graduate, majored in geology (yes, “rocks and things”). I take most of my tea at home by gaiwan, and at work by mug.
My notes are pretty disjointed because I’m absent-minded, and I also keep a teatra.de blog for reviewing and rambling about tea books/publications, and an instagram for photos. Expect nerding about tea production and history on both.
I’m a Doctor Who fanatic (Jon Pertwee, if you were wondering).
“But you should never turn down tea, when it’s offered. It’s impolite, and impoliteness is how wars start.” ~Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann
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