Origin: Fujian, China
Year: ?
Vendor: Rishi Tea
Price: $64/lb.
(Organic)
I do not enjoy flavored teas, and in the past I was not fond of chrysanthemum tea (ju hua cha). If you asked me, I would have told you that this tea was a waste of some perfectly good bai hao yinzhen. However, it was one of the new teas that came into our bulk dept., and I like Rishi, so I took some home.
Brewing parameters: 2 g/150 ml/185 F/4 min, 5.5 min, 7 min.
There was no discernible fluctuation in taste from the first three infusions. I imagine you could get a lot of mileage out of the tea, possibly six, perhaps even seven infusions before it paid out, although I tend to get bored with any tea before I get that far. This isn't any every day tea for me, but I'm tempted to give it a 5 out of 5.
Chuao Earl Grey Chocolate Bar

Chuao, pronounced chew-WOW, is a Chocolatier in Southern California named after a cacao producing region in Central Venezuela. This is good chocolate (41% cacao), you don't taste tea per se, but the bergamot clearly stands out, giving the chocolate a pleasant citrus, umm, citrusy? citrusness? I would like to see a version of this bar using darker chocolate, something in 60-70%. That would be good, too.
1 comment:
Hm. Very good to hear this one wasn't a waste of perfectly good yinzhen. I don't really have anything against flavors, but I did against flavored whites. I might give the florals a shot.
In the meantime, your review made me want to grab my copy of D.H. Lawrence short stories, so I'm going to indulge that impulse! :)
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