Lightweight, floral blend with gentle vegetal body.
floral, sweet, honey, forest, honeysuckle, musk, slightly vegetal
The first steep is light and floral-sweet, with a delicate vegetal note reminiscent of moss. In later steeps, a comfortable vegetal bitterness emerges, adding body to the floral lightness. The mossy character persists, accompanied by a returning licorice/sugarcane sweetness. Hints of maturing complexity appear, though the overall taste remains more simply layered compared to other blends. A fruity, herbal sweetness lingers throughout, maintaining the tea’s original brightness and light impression.
Calming and grown up.
3 comfy and not overpowering. Feels like grown up trees
Overall, it shares a similar light and sweet profile with other YYT teas I’ve noticed, such as YYT Lao Dingjiazhai and YYT Ban Po Lao Zhai as well as some of Tea Urchin’s similarly aged Yiwu contemporaries. This characteristic is goes well with my tastebuds, but I feel it could be thicker/heavier. What I like in this tea, however, is its added complexity and the (non aggressive)bitter notes.
I only have a small sample, but I can see this growing on me with deeper exploration.