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“Picked up some of the Spring 2018 version of this tea in my recent order. The description suggests it is a marriage of two different cultivars, one contributing creaminess and the other florals –...” Read full tasting note
This 2018 spring harvest of Jin Guanyin is an unique varietal made by grafting Huang Jin Gui onto Tieguanyin root stock, combining the fruit and floral aromatics of Huang Jin Gui with the creamy and grassy flavor of Tieguanyin for a rich and well balanced oolong. Master Zhang loves working with teas like Jin Guanyin that give him room to affect flavor and aftertaste through not just finishing craft but also the actual craft involved in agriculture and cultivation itself.
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Yunnan SourcingPicked up some of the Spring 2018 version of this tea in my recent order. The description suggests it is a marriage of two different cultivars, one contributing creaminess and the other florals – and that does more or less describe the flavour. It’s floral-dominant (which makes sense to me, given that the floral cultivar is the one from which the leaves are actually harvested – the tieguanyin is just the rootstock) with some creaminess. I haven’t tried straight Huang Jin Gui before to know if it’s markedly different from that, though, and it doesn’t look like I picked up any for comparison. Probably because florals aren’t really my thing. This one is heavily lilac, to my mostly-uneduated tastebuds, and that’s a floral that I can appreciate in oolongs, so I’ll enjoy it for what it is, at the very least, but it wouldn’t be a repurchase. I was hoping for a bit more creaminess!
