Lhotse Black

I had three steeps of this through the afternoon and early evening. I can’t get over how much it reminds me of Verdant’s Laoshan Black. It’s got a maltiness but also a lightness to it, and the third steep tasted nearly identical to the first.

1st steep 2 minutes
2nd steep 3 minutes
3rd steep 4 minutes

Thanks VariaTEA for sharing!

this is SUCH a boring tea. It’s not good…it’s not bad..it’s just boring, and flat.

Roswell Strange had an awful experience with the sample that I sent her with this tea. She got sudsy and chemical and “fresh linen” deodorizer. Needless to say, that did not have me particularly excited to try this.

With that said, that is not my experience at all. To me, this doesn’t really taste a whole lot like anything. I got a slight hint of milk chocolate. Maybe a touch of malt. A little metallic/copper at the tail-end of some sips. It’s sort of run of the mill and meh but I am definitely not getting suds and fresh linen. So is that a win? I don’t know.

Just finished a mug of this for my first cup of the morning – thank you VariaTEA for sharing it! I think I’m going to have to go and look it up on the TeaRunners website to see if they list any tasting notes/information on the tea because I found it really weird…

The aroma coming from the dry leaf and off the steep aroma was like a nice sweet honeycomb and red fruit, but the taste is sort of sudsy and chemical. It reminded me a bit of the “Fresh Linen” scented laundry detergent that I use. Not as full blown as that, of course, and with an undertone of something pleasant but just not wonderful. Though there’s still hints of malt, honey, and red fruit. They’re just drowned out by that off note.