by silverberry wrote:Popping in quick to say that Gryphon's Nymph of the Nile Tea has me swooning.
This is my first taste of baimudan tea, and though I have some idea of what to expect from white teas (tasted just ONE -- they get expensive fast -- surprisingly sweet and almost hay-like, very different from other teas), this was just completely different. I could not believe there was even tea in this. It's so sweet and fruity, similar to the scent of some combination of apple-pear-strawberry (and how much of that is the baimudan or the blend, I don't know). The rose is unlike any rose I've tasted in a tea blend -- and again, I don't know how much of that is from the specific rose used or a result of the particular combination. The tea almost reminds me of a perfume. There's supposedly basil here, but I'm not really detecting it in either scent or taste. If I focus, there's something akin to fresh basil in it, like how my hands would smell like after handling basil plants, but dried basil tastes a touch different from that.
The tea was part of a huge gift that included some books, a tarot deck, and even more tea. I'm putting together a package to reciprocate it, but it feels way too lacking compared to what I received ;___;
Quite a pricey and delicate tea, how do you brew it to bring out the taste? Will hot boiling water suffice, or does it taste better if we cool down the hot water a bit and brew it like green tea?
A gift is a gift. Specifically selected books, fancy tarot cards, AND MORE TEA seems very much fitting as a return gift tbh.
