Erik EllestadEmerald Buds (2023) from White2Tea is an early spring bud only Chinese green tea from Guizhou. A pan fired green tea, it is generally in the vicinity of Longjing/Dragonwell green tea, light, slightly nutty.
Mao Jian No. 2 from White2Tea's spring green tea drop is always one of my favorites. The 2023 release was no exception.
I usually try to get through green teas within a couple years, but a few 2023 White2Tea green teas are still left, including this mao feng. Perhaps less impactful than it would have been when it was fresher, it is still very enjoyable.
Eric R. ScottFinishing up the last of a cake of Hot Brandy—a white/black tea blend from #white2tea. #tea #gongfucha
Final experiment in cross cultural blending: 5g White2Tea Tale Chaser (roasted ripe puerh) and 2g Yunomi Naturalitea Superior Hojicha. Weird, I like the blends that are unevenly divided between the teas more than evenly divided blend.
I really enjoy Tale Chaser, a charcoal roasted ripe puerh from White2Tea, but my wife is not a fan. "Tastes like seaweed," she says, (she says that about all ripe puerh). I can detect no wet pile or off taste and don't exactly find seaweed unappealing. Different strokes...
Scarlet Floret from White2Tea is a Fujian black tea, and a pretty classic example of the style of black tea made in Fujian at that. High scent, like plum or cherry blossom, low astringency, little bitterness.
Great Blue Heron is pine smoked raw puerh, (semi-aged maocha blend). Interestingly, I get more character of the base tea and less pure smoke from the smoked raw puerh than I did from Camphire (ripe puerh) yesterday.
Camphire from White2Tea is a pine smoked Shou puerh (similar to smoked lapsang black tea). If you like smoked teas, smokey Scotch Whisky, and Mezcal, this is a shou puerh for you.
It's only taken me 5 years to drink through this pound of shou puerh minis. Why am I still buying more tea?
