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“ADVENT DAY 5, tea 3/3 Oh dear, this one sounds fancy! Used all 5 grams in one western session; using only 80 °C water. The dry scent and liquor scent is the same. Puffed rice / corn cakes, rice...” Read full tasting note
Bolaven Silver Cloud Sticky Rice White Tea is a white silver needle tea scented with the Southeast Asian “sticky rice” herb. The basis tea grows in the fertile volcanic soil of a semi-wild, biodiverse tea garden in Paksong, Bolaven Plateau, south Laos. The sticky rice herb, “Nuo Mi Xiang Nen Ye”, is for example also used to scent tea leaves in Yunnan and north Thailand. The combination of the white tea buds’s taste and the aroma donor’s flavor, characterized by spicy notes, is about just as pleasant as it is unique.
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ADVENT DAY 5, tea 3/3
Oh dear, this one sounds fancy! Used all 5 grams in one western session; using only 80 °C water.
The dry scent and liquor scent is the same. Puffed rice / corn cakes, rice krispies, and so on. Naturally it reminds me the sticky rice oolong I had this year. It was very light in flavour as well as in the colour. Less vegetal than that oolong; more of the rice aroma here.
Delightful and probably a tea that I would buy for further experimenting.
Ooh sounds delightful! Interesting that they chose silver needle for a sticky rice tea?
There is much more detailed information on the tea page: https://www.siam-teas.com/product/bolaven-silver-cloud-sticky-rice-white-tea/
Maybe there is a hidden answer for your question :)
It’s interesting that this tea comes from Laos! Does it taste like a Yunnan silver needle? (The few I’ve had have tasted like oats, bananas, and hay, or maybe the rice aroma covers that up.) It sounds like this vendor has some interesting offerings in their advent calendar.
Leafhopper: Sadly I can’t compare, because it was so strongly scented and maybe I wasn’t as well as so focused. If I buy a pouch one day, I would gladly share a bit with you; but well it’s not the cheapest tea.
This one does sound nice!
Martin, I agree it’s quite pricy for a scented tea. We might have to do another swap sometime in the future when my tea museum is a bit more manageable. I have so many swap teas I still need to write notes on.