A deep and abiding love of Oriental Beauty

A deep and abiding love of Oriental Beauty

Golden Fleece

Great color, wonderful aroma coming out of the bag. A generous sample, more than the 5 grams noted on the sample bag, which I put into my glass gaiwan. Both came from Verdant and what a fine treat it is to get to use a glass gaiwan for the first time(glass gets hot, ouch!) as well as try a brand new sort of tea at the same time.
The tea is fun, rapidly changing from one brew to the next, first three steeps at 205f, and the fourth steep lowered down to 190 as that third steep had a little too much 'tang' to it. Steeps four through six were really lovely, this tea has a profusion of flavors, none of them anything other than easy to enjoy. Fruits, citrus maybe, vegetal a wee bit, a full mouth-feel, very warming with no astringency at all, though as I said a bit 'tart' with the hotter steeps.
Visually this tea is a total winner and I am enjoying looking at my own photographs here more than I usually do! Delicious and worth ordering more of for certain! A nice break from my usual daily drinkers, I can see this one being a tea I enjoy in the evenings over games of backgammon making cup after cup in my sweet little glass gaiwan, happily burning my fingers all night long...