Tea: Green Shoumei + Tea Flower Type: White Tea Harvest: May 2023 + December 2023 Region: Guanyang, Fuding + Hefeng, Enshi Producer: Wu Family + Loushuiyuan Tasting Notes: Orchid, Apricot, Cork, Jujube.
One of the most requested products over the last year, this one-of-a-kind cracker brings together a solid white tea and an obscure tea byproduct: flowers. Tea flowers, when used at all, are sometimes an ormanental addition to green tea, but are almost never pressed with white tea. Their mild aroma cannot compete with osmanthus, jasmine, or chrysanthemum; When brewed in quantity, they likewise offer more bitterness than sweetness.
Pressed together with shoumei, however, they balance the white tea's base sweetness and add a vegetal florality that has bloomed into a complex mix of fruity and savory notes with aging. This is an experiment that proved to taste much better than experimental. It is a white tea that is a welcome antidote to a winter sniffle or heavy yule time meal.
Remarkably sweet, pleasing herbal aromatics, indeed it does evoke chewing fresh sugar cane. This was happily a blind-cake purchase, so it will be fun to check in a few times over a year and enjoy. Highly recommend this to all sheng enjoyers.
I *really* like this oolong. It has a slightly bitter honey taste and absolutely extraordinary aroma. I drink this gongfu style and by making big cups—both work great, and it's a little tricky to overbrew this. Just a fantastic tea.
