Dry leaf: It smells quite sweet and light. it gives me the image of a pile of freshly cut clover hay fluffed together with straw. A little whiff of something fruity? Peach? Mm! I just want to drive right in!
First steep: 5 Oz. Trader Joe’s Artisian water at 180 F for two and a half minutes
Smells sweet and a very much like the leaf! It takes like it too, sweet and light, just as anticiapted. Very woody wth some caramel notes as it cools. No grassiness at all but it was such a low temperature. it reminds me very much of a Chinese oolong like this. Probably the peach notes. Ye-ap. Smells peachy tastes peachy too!
It’s surprisingly astringant for such a light steep! I’m not even done and I feel alert and thirsty!
Ooh, I’ve got to try this at a higher temperature!
