| | My tea closet is full of little bags, not so little bags, and big bags. Many of them, especially the little ones, are unlabeled. That's because they are samples from one place or another, and they always come in faster than I can drink them. More often than not, they're from tea shops, or from people I meet, or whatever, and they just shove you a sample and you take it home. You throw it in the box where all the other samples are smouldering.... and there it lies, waiting for you like a little puppy at an animal rescue center, until you pick it up and give it a new name....
Today's lucky tea:
I have no idea what it is. There are no indications of any kind as to where this came from. I know this is a Wuyi tea by its looks and smell, but that's about it. Probably not a shuixian -- maybe a dahongpao? But I don't remember getting a dahongpao sample. Maybe one from my friend L in Shanghai? I have no clue.
There wasn't much, so I threw it into my Wuyi pot and brewed.
Sour in the first infusion, but the sourness went away after the second cup. Good. Solid rosated Wuyi taste, probably something inferior, not quite good dahongpao quality. Maybe a low grade one, or one of the other varietals. I don't know... but it is aged, somewhat. It's not new, as it has that aged taste coming on in the later infusions. Not very old, because it's not very prominent, but it's there. Lasts many, many infusions, as a Wuyi should.
Broken leaves, but that's partly the product of it having traveled around the world with me. Maybe I'll call this tea Max. |
| | Posted 2/15/2008 12:41 AM - 240 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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