First time trying Robert’s Coffee’s Huang Hua Yun Jian, which apparently translates as Yellow Flower Cloud Needle, an appropriate name for the tea. It cost €8,90/100 g.
Robert’s Coffee’s teas don’t come with brewing instructions, so I followed Le Palais des Thés’ instructions for brewing Chinese green teas. They recommend a water temperature of 70-75°C, so I tried to approximate that. (I can emphatically say that my new meat thermometer is unsuited to measuring water temperature. It reacts far too slowly.) I steeped 3 grams of tea for 4 minutes (the recommendation was 3-5 minutes) in a 30cl teapot.
The dry leaves of the tea are fairly large and needle-like. They smell very slightly vegetal, like after a spring rain. The liqueur was very pale yellow colour. The taste was mild, soft and smooth with no astringency. It had only light body, but the taste lingered long in the mouth.
The second infusion I let steep for 5 minutes. The taste was stronger than the first infusion’s, though still smooth. The third infusion I steeped in a slightly hotter water, approximately 80°C, for 6 minutes. It was still good, but mostly unremarkable.
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