This bi luo chun is tightly rolled with about 50% of the visible leaf being silver green downy buds and the other visible portions being a spruce grey green. Once exhausted and unrolled the leaves, the buds and the attached stem are visible and seem to be of good quality.
This is a nice tea with the brightness and sweetness of an early spring tea combined with the nuttiness and density you often get in this tea type.
I steeped 1 TSP of leaf in a 150 ml Gaiwan and using my regular progression of 45 s + 15... I made 6 steeps of this tea.
This tea like the Yunnan white bi luo chun I had ( also from *boychik*, thanks by the way!), had nice spicy gardenia like floral notes, which in this case were tempered by a lemony note. It also had deepening over time chestnut and plum notes, snap pea, spinach, alfalfa, cream and orange rind. It was slightly astringent while brewed in the low to mid 80's but had a nice thick and creamy density.
Altogether a really nice tea and a good change from the lighter and very sweet greens I tend to drink most often!
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