Nonpareil Te Gong Huang Shan Mao Feng Green Tea

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea Leaves
Flavors
Chestnut, Cream, Sweet, Vegetal, Beany, Fruity, Nutty, Bamboo, Butter, Fennel, Grass, Hay, Hazelnut, Honey, Lettuce, Mineral, Peas, Pine, Seaweed, Spinach, Straw, Sugarcane, Umami, Broth, Creamy, Smooth, Thick, Green, Floral, Green Beans, Dry Grass, Oats, Sweet, Warm Grass, Coconut, Sugar, Vegetable Broth
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
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Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 15 sec 5 g 9 oz / 258 ml

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  • “Another short tasting note for this sipdown, which people may or may not see with Steepster being so wacky! As I have said many times before, this is one of my favorite green teas. I’m not a big...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I feel like such a newbie today. This is the last of the spring samples from Teavivre to review. I think this is the third year I have sampled this. I should know what I am doing. Apparently that...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Smells very fresh, nutty, a little sweet and somewhat floral. When steeped the leaves become so green! This is the best green tea I have had the pleasure of sampling thus far. It was lighter than...” Read full tasting note
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Origin: Shexian(歙县) County, Huanshan City, Anhui Province

Ingredients: Tea buds with pure leaves

Taste: High mountain tea has distinct fruity flavor with chestnut fragrance, tastes soft and smooth

Health Benefits: As the major component part, catechinic acid occupies 70% in tea polyphenol. It also takes an important role in effecting the tea’s quality. Catechinic acid provides benefits for immunity system in our bodies, as well as radiation resistance.

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Tea provided by Teavivre for review

I’ve been having a lot of good result’s with Teavivre’s steep guidelines. So I prepared this in my gaiwan at first, and tea mug later on.

My first through third steeps were very light and subtle. It had a refreshing, sweet, vegetal and slightly fruity aroma. (Unfortunately it was a type of vegetal flavour I don’t enjoy.)

And just to experiment, I also used my second sample to try it out western style. But really, I didn’t notice too much of a difference.

Overall, I couldn’t get into this tea. I tried, but there’s something about the vegetal aroma that displeases my palate. But aside from that, the other subtle flavours were pretty good. So I’m not a fan, but if you enjoy this sort of green tea it might be worth a try.

100ml gaiwan, 4g sample, 3 steeps (rinse,30s,1m,1m30s)

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 0 min, 30 sec

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Thank you Angel for the sample!
So when I opened this and was inspecting the cute little leaves, my husband asked to smell them and remarked that the smell reminded him of licorice. I hadn’t picked up on it at first, but I think I might smell it just a tiny bit as well. Mostly this smells nutty and toasted to me.
The liquor looks extremely light to me. Almost like white wine. It kind of smells like dragonwell to me (forgive my limited green tea knowledge!). I also almost messed up the temp. on this one (165 instead of 185).
I am reeling. This is so amazing. No, really. I mentioned in one of my recent posts that my taste/smell has been off and I’m trying to recover, so these aren’t my most perfect posts, but this is dang good. I’m having trouble describing it, but it is light, roasty, and nutty. I think I’m in love with the nut notes that are coming through on the back end of the sip. Very excellent tea that I will continue to steep and enjoy the rest of tonight.

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Woo! One of the stragglers from my birthday order since the others ship so quickly. I’m gonna try to cut down my reviews a bit from now on too.

I really enjoy this tea so I’m glad I purchased a good amount of it. It’s usually difficult for me to find green teas that are really strong, but the only reason I don’t like more delicate ones is because they don’t taste like this! Usually for me, lighter green teas just taste bland and grassy, and literally my least favorite flavor I can find in a straght tea is anything reminiscent of my lawn.

This however is really delicious because though it’s very delicate and not strong at all, it’s SUPER nutty and sweet and has no grassy flavor that I can taste. Definitely getting vegetables, but more like vegetables pan fried with butter than steamed or raw. It just has a very smooth and warm flavor and I absolutely adore nutty green teas so I’m in love. Really delicious and bound to become a staple!

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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I can really get into a Huangshan Maofeng. The last one sent from Teavivre was quite nice, and this one is even better. It’s very light and crisp, with a simple vegetal and nutty sweetness, a sparkling texture, and fresh aroma. The leaves are consistent and great quality, with fur, not too many blisters from pan-frying, and mainly bud material. They’re quite pretty. While the tea could probably use some depth that the later harvests’ leaves provide, it isn’t lacking much of anything else. It has been a great tea to have this summer for outside sessions, where it really cools me down. It’s simple and it’s good.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C

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128 tasting notes

Water: 8oz at 175 degrees

Leaves: bright green tea leaves

Steep: 1m,2m,3m

Aroma: grassy

Color: almost clear

Taste: I don’t know if it’s just me but so far w/ the green teas they’ve almost all smelled the same regardless of their type. This tea was okay I didn’t get much flavor at all i used started w/2tsp then 3tsp of tea but nothing really changed.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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Funny. I steeped in a flute glass this time, and now it was just wonderful …
Was it porcelain vs glass ?
Was it wide vs tall ?
Was it the amount of leaves ?
Was it the expectation?
Was it the mood?
About 7+ brews, and all just wonderful, balanced, sweet, nutty, fruity…

Flavors: Beany, Chestnut, Fruity, Nutty, Sweet

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Now that I have gotten reviews of two of the remaining teas from September out of the way, allow me to move on to something I consumed much more recently. I finished what I had of this tea earlier in the week. At one point in fairly recent history, I was a huge fan of Huangshan Maofeng, but nowadays I find myself preferring Chinese green teas that display more powerful aromas and flavors. Still, I cannot penalize a tea for being exactly what it is supposed to be and doing exactly what it is supposed to do, so I will go ahead and offer the opinion that this was an excellent Huangshan Maofeng.

I prepared this tea gongfu style. After a quick rinse, I steeped 6 grams of tea buds and leaves in 4 ounces of 176 F water for 5 seconds. This infusion was chased by 15 additional infusions. Steep times for these infusions were as follows: 7 seconds, 9 seconds, 12 seconds, 16 seconds, 20 seconds, 25 seconds, 30 seconds, 40 seconds, 50 seconds, 1 minute, 1 minute 15 seconds, 1 minute 30 seconds, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, and 5 minutes.

Prior to the rinse, the dry bud and leaf mix emitted strong mineral, hay, and straw aromas that were accented by hints of sugarcane and honey. After the rinse, I noted new scents of cream, chestnut, and malt. The first infusion then introduced some subtle scents of pine and lettuce. In the mouth, the tea liquor presented delicate notes of grass, chestnut, malt, straw, cream, and pine that were backed by impressions of seaweed, butter, and spinach before a spicy mineral presence dominated the mouth. The subsequent infusions introduced aromas of butter, cream, grass, hazelnut, and fennel. Stronger and more prominent butter and cream notes emerged in the mouth alongside a stronger and spicier mineral presence and belatedly emerging impressions of lettuce, hay, honey, and sugarcane. New notes of umami, fennel, hazelnut, grass, bamboo, and peas appeared as well. The last couple of infusions offered lingering mineral, cream, butter, lettuce, grass, seaweed, and chestnut notes that were backed by fleeting umami, sugarcane, pea, and hay hints.

In my experience, Huangshan Maofeng is normally a subtler, more textured, and more challenging green tea. This one was certainly no exception. There was a lot going on with it, however, and it produced a sterling example of the sort of wonderfully textured tea liquor for which Huangshan Maofeng seems to be so renowned. Again, this may not be the sort of Chinese green tea I often crave these days, but I am not going to slight a tea that does everything one should expect of it really, really well. Overall, this was an excellent Huangshan Maofeng from a reliable vendor. Fans of this type of tea should give it a shot.

Flavors: Bamboo, Butter, Chestnut, Cream, Fennel, Grass, Hay, Hazelnut, Honey, Lettuce, Mineral, Peas, Pine, Seaweed, Spinach, Straw, Sugarcane, Umami

Preparation
6 g 4 OZ / 118 ML

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I’ve had this sample in my tea drawer for a while now. Mild and sweet flavor, not as grassy as some green teas. Could have probably steeped it longer, but I won’t purchase it again.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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I bumped this up to a tablespoon of leaves and finally tasted something. This is a sweet, smooth tea with a little bit of butteriness. It’s nice, but the flavor is still really on the light side, so I guess it’s just one of those teas that you have to focus on to taste anything.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Just opened my order of this tea, freshly harvested at the end of March. Would have loved to get to this sooner, but there are so many fresh greens I’ve been working my way through!

The dry leaves of this tea has a faintly sweet, vegetal aroma and each steep of this pours almost clear. The flavor is light and sweet, with indistinct fruit notes and a bit of a fresh grassy finish. I love how the color of the leaves brighten over multiple infusions as they hydrate, and I enjoyed a good number of infusions of this lovely spring green. I think I will try my next infusion with more leaf and also try this one cold steeped overnight.

Flavors: Fruity, Grass, Sweet

Preparation
4 g

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