Summer Harvest Laoshan Green

Tea type
Green Tea
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Flavors
Plants, Cream, Green Beans, Spinach, Vegetal, Lima Beans
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180 °F / 82 °C 1 min, 0 sec 8 oz / 236 ml

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From Verdant Tea

Put simply, this brilliant harvest from the He family in Laoshan village tastes like summer- rich and full, cooling and refreshing.

The aroma of the wet leaf makes us nostalgic for China, for a special back-alley restaurant serving up dim sum on folding card tables. Every morning, the lines went down the street to get a bowl of steaming fresh-made soymilk from locally grown Laoshan soybeans, and a handful of crisp-fried bread for dipping in the milk. The sweet, rich and bready quality of that dim sum experience perfectly mirrors the aroma of this tea.

The taste and texture seems whipped or frothed like an ice-cold matcha smoothie, or even a key lime cream pie. If you ever go to China, or an asian grocery, you can get a green bean ice cream bar. It sounds strange, but it is perfectly sweet and refreshing. The taste of this tea in early steeping is like green bean ice cream melting on your tongue.

Later steepings are full bodied and green like fresh leafy spinach, complimented by an herbaceous cooling quality that evokes home garden peppermint leaf. Slowly, a holy basil enveloping sweet tingling begins to build, creating a comforting thick brew. This is one of the most exciting and satisfying harvests from Laoshan that we have had the privilege of trying.

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30 Tasting Notes

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618 tasting notes

I am usually not someone who likes the scent of green tea. In my experience, oolong and black tea are much more appealing to my nose than greens. This tea is something special. It’s buttery, sweet, fruity and toasty. Mmm.. so many different notes and all before sipping!

First Infusion: First sips offer something light and milky. It’s not terribly buttery, but milky instead. The sip finishes with a deeper kind of green flavor. It’s very similar to spinach or Brussels sprouts. What I like about this first cup is that all of the flavors are rather tame. It is very much a smooth, creamy and calming cup. I can’t wait to see what the second cup offers!

Second Infusion: This cup has a lovely mouthfeel. It’s full and creamy. It’s very similar to the first infusion, but the flavors are not as strong. I really do detect something that tastes like soy milk… but it’s natural and unsweetened. Very nice. I could keep sipping on this tea all night!

Third Infusion: I detect more of a chlorophyll taste in this steep, but it’s still sweet and yummy. I love that it isn’t astringent at all… throughout all three infusions!

This tea is my favorite green tea I’ve ever had. It’s so delicious and pleasant on this cold night! We had our first snow today & have more planned for tomorrow! Even though I’m not a fan of the cold, this kind of weather means I’ll be drinking much more tea during the day and night.

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412 tasting notes

Drinking Laoshan-style at the office (green leaves in the bottom of a glass mug draw some attention!) to make way for the new order coming soon :) Drinking the Laoshan Apothecary Green helped me learn to recognize the spicy-sweet notes in the this, as well as the leafy green ones

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 8 min or more

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289 tasting notes

Sipdown! I’m going to miss this one. Looking forward to the new harvests this spring!

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257 tasting notes

Thank u to Terri Harplady for this sample!!!

The dry leaves are little tiny twists of gray-green and look like links in a necklace. So tiny!! Brewed, they unfurl to look like chopped herbs.

The liquor has a very strong butter bean scent!! Its essence is stronger than the flavor; the flavor is light and fresh. It has subtle notes of cream and the butter bean and gives a great creamy mouthfeel which I have never experienced with a green tea.

Lovely drinking this right before lunch, it excites the palette!!

Then, I happen to be having a spicier soup for lunch and sipping this tea is cooling to the palette!

Very interesting and lovely green tea!!

Flavors: Cream, Lima Beans

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Terri HarpLady

Yay! So happy to like it!

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166 tasting notes

I am bumping up the rating on Summer Harvest Laoshan Green. For me, the results were far better brewing it Gongfu style with short steeping times. It was smooth, light, and fresh with no bitterness. I used 3 gm of tea for 4 oz of water at 185, letting it steep 6 seconds and adding a few seconds for each subsequent steep. With Western style brewing and longer steeping times, I found it to be too bitter for my taste, but I don’t think that’s been a problem for others.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 0 min, 15 sec

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79 tasting notes

Well! Colour me surprised. In the pouch I smelt grass and the inexplicable plastic-y note I usually associate with oolongs, steeped it was salted and buttered corn on the cob, but the flavour… it’s quite nice! And that’s a big step for me, I usually pass over green tea. Sweet and creamy, it reminds me of matcha.

Preparation
0 min, 30 sec

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1233 tasting notes

Steeped for about 2 mins and that was perfect. So good in fact that I forgot to pour the rest of it in my cup. It probably steeped a good minute or two more. Wasn’t enough to ruin it but definitely added a bit more bitterness.

As I’ve let it cool down tue bitterness has somewhat lessened oddly enough. A bit more grassy and some what oaty. Is that a word?

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Im not sure what year mine is but its pretty good still, I should have drank this up a long time ago. Dry leafe smells omg so good almost like a black tea even lol. Kinda sweet, kinda savory, buttery, vegetal, Delicious.

Tommy Toadman

My stupid smart phone wont let me slide the rating any higher

Kirkoneill1988

That’s why i do mine on my PC, or at least take notes

Tommy Toadman

ya I usually do too but sometimes Lance uses my computer to watch movies during dialysis and I have to use my phone to go online

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When brewed properly, very refreshing! A little like drinking a plant though (I’m starting to think maybe I don’t like green tea as much as others!).

Flavors: Plants

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 0 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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737 tasting notes

Green. Vegetable. Creamy.
Ehhh sorry, not for me, Albertocanfly! :(

Cameron B.

Green tea hater! ;)

albertocanfly

Can’t win with every green tea with you :] I’m just happy you tried it!^.^

Ost

Worth a shot, right? :P

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