Chinese Yunnan Golden tips (black tea) with Japanese Sencha and Hojicha below (green tea). I’ve been sorting teas with certain visual qualities and experimenting in creating patterns.
Tag: green
An Ji Bai Cha
All of the tea I’ve consumed in the past month.
White, green, oolong, black, puerh.
China, Japan, Korea, India, Ceylon.
Anji Bai Cha. Very green, very light, plucked from bushes usually reserved for white teas. Very luxurious.
Green teas from China, Japan, Korea
Korea is an often forgotten tea producing country. Their teas are quite good and a curious mix of style and flavors of Chinese and Japanese greens.
Top left, Chinese Green: Show Bud (Xue Ya) from Silk Road Teas. A very nice Chinese green with the usual properties: A pale green leaf, mixed sizes, and light, savory flavors and aroma.
Top right, Japanese Green: Sakura-no from Paper & Tea. Darker, smaller green leaf. Savory grassy flavors with a thickness to the brew.
Bottom, Korean Green: Daejak from Paper & Tea. Leaves are the size of a Chinese green, yet the darker color of a Japanese green. The flavors are a mix of the lighter Chinese green with a grassyness of the Japanese green. But unlike the other two there’s a noticeable additional flavor and aroma of roasted leaves.
Chinese tea plants and tea culture spread to Japan and Korea over hundreds of years. Both countries developed their own from cultivation to production to ceremony. Korea has a tea ceremony linked to the well-known Japanese tea ceremony.
Tasting three Oolongs from Taiwan, courtesy of Matthew’s recent trip.
Typical weekend on Flickr.