Siver Needle Bai Hao Yin Zhen Fuding

Many thanks to Thistea.com for sending me this sample.

Dry lead aroma notes: sweet, savoury molasses, chocolate, hint of floral jasmine, red pepper, melon
Steamed leaf aroma: sweet bread, dates, leather, chestnut
Brewing leaf aroma: cucumber, melon

Brewed tea aroma: sugary, melon, sweet floral

Tea tasting notes: sweet melon, thick mouthfeel, sweet cucumber notes into the aftertaste.

Scent of Dry leaf: dry and sligt tabacco(what you would expect from a silver needle) Appearance and scent of wet leaf: this has me confused, it smells sweet but i cant identify similarities with another thing, closes to cane sugar i will say Brewing method/time/temp: 1 st infusion i did 195 35 seconds. But second infusion i did 212 35 seconds. Taste- slightly sweet for first i fusion. More sweet the second infusion

After this, altough it was a good tea, i decided to put in a tall glass and see how it does grampa style(which is how i have been doing white needles in the past) Once you do this you can see all the little tea hairs separate and swim around, which is really relly relaxing. Taste- whith this it will vary since its less precise, my first cup was a lot more alive than the teapot generated, it is still sweet, but it also has slightly black peper spicy notes. Silver needles really is something special, i love it.

Overall, i recomemd this tea, is great

I kept drinking after writing the review and the longer it is in the water the creamier it gets, this is actually amazing.