2022 年 7 月茶俱乐部

Delicious and smoky black tea. Great with sweets. Nice session to start the workday. I love basically any smoked tea, ao this was also delightful and it worked really well with my cinnamon sugar donuts. Started to taste more woody in the third infusion, but still smoky and it lingered on the tongue.

I will order more of this tea. It’s got a real savory creamy salty smoke and sweet tomato vine. Overall just very rich thick and warming tea I’ve come back to this tea again for its savory creamy and warming flavors. Salt, butter, smoke, tomato vine. It’s really perfect for a cold winter morning. Paired it with a persimmon today but it would go really well with hot oatmeal in the morning too.

Smoky and sweet. Interesting blend of flavors. Enjoyed this smokey tea with the teapals (and my sister) today. I always love smokey teas so this was a real treat.

Eyes - Dry Leaf: brown and red twisted leaves with a greenish hue Nose - Dry Leaf: charred pinewood and dried cherrywood Nose - Wet Leaf: charred pinewood and grilled asparagus/squash Eyes - Liquor: medium-thick, light orange liquor Mouth - Texture: thin-to-medium and silky, with a vaporous quality Mouth - Taste: charred woods and steamed sweet potatoes Mouth - Finish: vaporous and juicy in the cheeks, with a slight dryness and a distinctly woody flavor Nose - Empty Cup: charred wood Eyes - Wet Leaf: Body - Sensation: heating and alert Not shockingly complex (as to be expected from this style of tea), but a very high quality smoked ZSXZ

Another JJM! I love comparing these teas, and I love JJM in general! The leaves are a lovely dark brown. The liquid is golden and amber from the first steep. Rose and rose hips come through the strongest, but there are also fruity, mineral, and spiced notes that peak and ebb across steeps. It's incredibly long lasting.

Fruity sweet, licorice, menthol, chocolate, nutty, grains. Love this one Revisiting this tongmu Zhang Shan xiao zhong. Super yumm! Perfect tea for early spring before my body is ready for the greens. Warming, sweet, relaxing, but hopeful like experiencing the buds coming on the trees.

This is a very pretty tea! It's a dark golden. The aroma is fruity and sweet potato. The taste is sweet potato, hints of tropical fruit, and mineral. It's a good tea, I just expected it to taste a little stronger.

Nutty & fruity. Mouth sensations dry to oily & juicey. an amber liquor with a fruity tea liquor aroma. The taste has fruity: melon & citrus notes and a very long savory finish & mineral tannins. The leaves are a beautiful long & twisted. Infusions have a lovely textural complexity and minerality. Leaves the mouth with sensation it will be dry but then quickly goes honey sweet, juicy and oily. An incredibly long finish on this black tea & it has me wondering why I tend not to gong fu brew black/reds! Absolutely delightful & I can’t wait to taste the others from this July ‘22 Club. It has opened my eyes (and taste buds) to the joy of black teas other than my customary southern roots of pouring over ice and adding lots of sugar to the cup.

I didn't not like it, but I may need to add more leaves next time. I'm thinking there's a trick to tasting what I smell, and I haven't quite gotten it yet, because the other tasting notes I've seen seem to indicate that.

A very pleasant tea. Nice large leaves and lovely floral flavor with a hint of salt. A kind of calming tea. A very calming tea, which is interesting for black tea. Lovely session again with the tea pals.

Eyes - Dry Leaf: black, thin, slightly twisted leaves with brown detailings Nose - Dry Leaf: charred bourbon barrels, cocoa husk, cocoa butter, and rambutan Nose - Wet Leaf: pinewood, rambutan, and rose Eyes - Liquor: golden orange Mouth - Texture: soft and honeyed Mouth - Taste: honey grahams and rambutan/mangosteen/raisin moving to a gentle rose water/orchid cleanse Mouth - Finish: potent rose and orchid juicy florality Nose - Empty Cup: honey and a floral bouquet Eyes - Wet Leaf: dark olive leaves with reddish pigmentation Body - Sensation: alert yet calm A truly excellent showing of a ZSXZ, with lots of floral notes which last through the infusions and a constantly caramelizing honey sweetness. Impressive!! Another excellent find from Vincent! A lovely late night session.

A tad too "heady" for my liking Not enough body or houyun Too "sexy" Meaty flavor I'm not quite used to in zsxz Short lives qi A tad too "green"?? Very comfortable and well pronounced qi Lovey texture, thick w/o roughness Salivating Lasting huigan Lasting and comfortable warmth

We were going through Christian's old tea stash and realized I never did this one with him! Hopefully it's not stale by this point. I love the aftertaste of this tea. It's very fruity with some nice honey sweetness. The main flavor is sweet potato, which I'm never the biggest fan of. The flavor had nice shifts in balance between steeps to keep things interesting.

Very interesting tea. Getting fruity and nutty notes on top of the tea flavor. The tea leaves look beautiful. Immediate impact of caffeine in the head, chest and arms. Lovely session with the club again. Interesting conversation about clay pots and cups while we drank this lovely Guan Yin Red. One thing I noticed about this tea was that the caffeine affected me almost immediately, settling in my face, chest, and shoulders. I had to have more food even though I had just finished breakfast. That is something to note for me—always make sure to have a snack nearby when drinking this tea!

Nice black soft and sweet for the cooler mornings. Light mineral and lots of fruit. Nice gentle black with loads of sweet and apricot and peach honey tones. Still not sure about my tastebuds since everything seems to have a cream taste, but regardless, I enjoyed this as the weather is getting cooler.

A nice solid black with sweet cream/milk, tomato and a vegetal vine. (Still have c*vid mouth). Doesn’t go bitter at all or wet leaves either. Calming, warming With the metallic taste left from C*vid (stll!), black and puErs seems to be what I can taste. This one, to my off palette, was enjoyable: warming, sweet, milk/butter, a little tomato vine too. Calming.

Very lovely tea. Not too overwhelming. Quite mellow in flavor but with a little something there. Quick session before work today! Enjoyed this Tongmu Xiao Chi Gan with a chocolate waffle as a mid morning snack.

The leaves are a gorgeous deep brown, and the liquid is an amber gold. This tea has less scruff than some of the others. The aroma and flavor are almost pure sweet potato. It's shockingly consistent! Hints of other flavors emerge over time, but only the eventual minerality is clear.