Green Tea - Teavivre.com

      The flower, an iris, just because it is beautiful.  

We do need some eye candy in our lives; so this is for you.

When asked to sample and evaluate green tea recently, I wasn't so sure.

I am not a huge green tea fan, but after sampling the following 5 greens from Teavivre.com

I realized it was because I really had not tasted good green tea.

Throwing caution to the wind I said 'yes' and here are the results:

For all of them I found they were less grassy/vegetable than I had tasted before.

I think that is why I haven't liked greens.
 I did like them all and found just small nuances between them.
Some had long, flat needles of tea and others were a little shorter and crinkled,
but all the needles were beautiful and opened into lovely leaves when steeped.
They were all steeped at 185 degrees, which worked very well for these beautiful leaves.

Nonpareil Te Gong - Huang Shen Mao Feng: not as much complexity as the others, smooth like bamboo.

Premium Grade Dragonwell - Long Jing: a light sweetness to the back throat.

Organic Superfine Dragonwell - Long Jing: reminded me of a taste of summer's sweetness.

Xin Yang Mao Jian: was my favorite with a slight smokiness to the back upper mouth.

Bi Luo Chun - Pi Lo Chun: straight forward, simple green tea with a nice after taste of sweetness.

I would highly recommend these green teas from Teavivre.com.
I am learning to like a good cup of green tea with these samples.

Happy Weekend, dear friends!
Take time for a delightful cup of green tea.