2022 年 9 月茶俱乐部

First time doing a session in many many months as I caught COVID at work in January and have been dealing with long-COVID heart issues. Got a chance to share gongfu for the first time with my parents and sister as they’re visiting. What a wonderful way to enjoy a visit!

Lovely. Still one of my absolute favorites. Forgot I sill had some of this. Definitely one of my favorite teas of all time still. Gardenia flavor is strong but not overwhelming. A lovely start to my Sunday.

What a lovely way to spend a day off!!! And thank you to the TeaPals who, with their beautiful artistic posts, inspired me to do the pic collages. I’m hoping Vincent can make or procure more of this tea. It’s amazing! 😍

We used a coffee clever dripper because we only have one clean strainer and wanted to do Western style brewing together. Lots of experimenting in this apartment! The tea is very dark. The gardenia really comes through in the aroma. The taste is very peppery with a bit of floral peaking through. It's a little sweet, but not nearly what I expected from what Christian told me!

The leaves are very dark. The liquid starts off dark amber and shifts golden. There's a lot of debris lining the cup. This is also a good tea! The taste is primarily like star anise and very peppery. There's some floral and leather. Then it becomes something I can't place. Thank you Vincent!

Beautiful balance of gardenia with the tea. The gardenia persisted through at least the six steeping for me. Undertones of clove, mushroom and sweet tabacco. Minerality started to emerge around the 5th steeping. Also at 5th steeping, I felt a menthol sensation on the tongue. Wonderful tea experience!

This tea is delightful and well balanced. The gardenia flowers give it a hint of a sweet and buttery flavor and it smells amazing. A fantastic and informative tea session today! It was fun to learn about how teas are scented. This gardenia scented tea was very well balanced. It tasted and smelled delightful. I think I would be interested to see how some other teas would taste with gardenia scenting.

I just got my package from Vincent of 50gm of this tea and was so excited to do a session. What a difference several months of steeping and more knowledge makes. I’m very grateful to Vincent and the other TeaPals for sharing information so freely. This was a wonderful session! 🥳🙏🏻

I finally was able to get half this tea to Elisa, so we're having it together (over Zoom) today! As always, the berry aroma is strong and immediate. The taste is a mixture of berries and sweet bread, including vanilla and hints of some kind of spice. Floral notes are also sometimes present, though usually not dominant. It remains a very pleasant tea! I only have one serving left after this, which is very sad! Elisa is already talking about getting Christian to order more for her if it's still in stock.

This tea remains delicious. It's always interesting to me how different qualities can be prominent in different sessions. This time, the berry notes were very subtle, and the floral sweetness was strongest.

As a fairly new experiencer of white teas, this has been my favorite so far. I am also impressed that although I am caffeine sensitive, this tea didn’t give me any jitters despite having the bud. Overall this was a really pleasant tasting experience and perfect for a rainy cold day.

I love the osmanthus aroma. This tea really holds up well; I had to increase the time consistently across steeps to keep the flavor strong, but it never becomes mineral or bitter. I did this with my mom, and she really enjoyed it too. My paternal grandmother stopped by unexpectedly and enjoyed trying it, although she's "not a tea person."

Overnight cold brew! The color is golden. The aroma is floral and slightly sweet. The taste is very floral, with some fresh-leaf vegetal, and it lingers. There's also some faint earthiness. It's surprisingly not sweet despite that being prominent last time. I wonder if it's due to differences in what I put the leaves through before fridging them. I have a lot to experiment with now!

It’s a cloudy day and I just felt like drinking this tea. First time brewing in this DuanNi teapot that I bought in Yixing. It’s such a good tea and no wonder many club members enjoyed it and wanted more. I feel very grateful for having found this tea and picking it for our September tea club 😄

The leaves are big! They're withered green and brown. The aroma is sweet and floral. The liquor is golden. The taste is really good! It's sweet and floral. At points, it has notes of berry, especially in the finish. This is a really good tea. I told a friend about it, and she wants a sample!

So far my favorite white tea that I bought extra m…and then was given even more! Lol! Berries, cream/milky, slight mineral, gentle Qi. Enjoying this berries and cream Gong Mei on a quiet Sunday morning while the weather is still nice enough to sit outside. Hope you all are being well ♥️

Delightful Osmanthus tea. Stronger floral notes in earlier steeps give way to honey notes from the tea. Took advantage of the fact that I had leftover Osmanthus cake from yesterday to finish up this Osmanthus Jiu Qu Hong Mei. A wonderful tea. Strong Osmanthus notes at the beginning leading to honey in later infusions.

A lovely osmanthus tea. Spending today’s session drinking a lovely osmanthus black. Flowery, sweet and nutty. A very interesting session because my mother was buying a door in the other room.

I enjoyed this tea much more this session than the last time. I think using my new gongfu set made a big difference, not just in the tasting experience but in the mindfulness of it as well thus leading to more enjoyment. 🎊🙏🏻🎊

Brewed a 2022 version of this tea for two guests. It was scented in late October, and it’s pretty good. Fewer osmanthus flowers in the dry leaves, yet still fragrant. The aroma is infused with the tea leaves. I used the group buy 100ml Zhuni teapot for black teas, and it worked well. Some folks have received their teapot and I’m glad to hear some good feedback!

Overnight cold brew! The color is golden. The aroma is fairly weak, but the taste is strong and clear. It's sweet, floral, and almost yam-like. The aftertaste is very fruity. It's interesting; I compared to my other notes and can still somewhat see the dark chocolate, but it's not really reading that way on its own anymore. I wonder if what I'm tasting now is closer to what I was smelling before.

The dry leaves are very small, thin, and dark green with little spots of yellow from the flowers. The aroma is very bright and fruity, but that doesn't really carry into the taste, which was mostly roasted, dark chocolate, and then mineral. It unfortunately starts getting weaker quickly.

Eyes - Dry Leaf: very small, dark colored leaves with yellow flower petals (vanilla beans and flowers) Nose - Dry Leaf: cocoa and warm nuts Nose - Wet Leaf: overripe cherry tomato, cacao nibs Eyes - Liquor: apple juice Mouth - Texture: round and silky with a certain expansiveness Mouth - Taste: roast nuts, cocoa, and vanilla taste from the tea, high fruity floral note from the osmanthus in the nose Mouth - Finish: aromatic osmathus in the nose, smooth lasting sweetness; some syrupy texture Body - Sensation: awake but mellow and happy An exceptional showing of a tea from our own Vincent, with the base tea being very reminiscent of some of my favorite ZSXZs.

A pretty pleasant tea. Very punchy flavor but more on the tea side than from the flowers. Perhaps doesn’t need a rinse. Will try that next time. Session at work today because I moved tables ans now have enough space for it. It is delightful to be sipping on amall cups of tea as I get my work done. The tea itself was pretty interesting. I expected it to taste more floral because of the flower petals but insteas it was gery punchy and earthy.

Quick infusions are a must. Beautiful floral nectar, bright, umami savory. Mouth vibrancy, thick silky infusions. Baby powder texture. Warming body sensation. Juicy under the tongue, cotton feel ontop. Minty feeling in the breath inward. A sublime Jasmine tea session. A perfect choice for this end of summer weather.

I'm usually not a huge green tea fan, but I actually like this one better than the other jasmine tea. The green tea taste helps keep the jasmine from being too overwhelming while the jasmine does the same for the green tea in turn. It might help that it's a bud tea! They seem to consistently register as much less bitter to me. It's also very pretty! The liquid itself is a pale green, but I really like how the jasmine flowers look mixed in with the long, thin tea leaves. My one compliant is that the tea is so incredibly consistent I felt like I was pouring from the same steep indefinitely. It does accordingly last a long time.

Think that this tea did not have enough Jasmine for me—I’m thinking it will be better after a few months of aging. Always fun to hang out with the club members. Had mixed thoughts about this tea. It smelled delightful but didn’t taste quite the way I like my Jasmine green tea, perhaps because it was too fresh. The last Jasmine Green Needle I had was processed in August but drunk in January and February, so I’m thinking that if I wait until the spring, the flavors will have more time to meld together and I will get that delicious Jasmine and Green tea blend that I love.

Tea was good but tasted just like a basic jasmine tea. Didn't notice anything special about next to an "ordinary" green jasmine. However maybe that's the nature of jasmine teas, it might just overpower the other flavors. Will probably cold brew the rest of this sample

Visiting this jasmine scented yellow tea from my tea pal club March 2022. Even though I love the jasmine scent, jasmine scented any timype of teas have always sent my stomach into fits. This one is lovely and soft and so far so good with my stomach.

I generally do not enjoy floral scented teas. However, this tea has been a delightful experience from the dry leaf throughout to the last sip in my session. Aroma of jasmine & Licorice. Oily mouth feel with a lovely mouth buzz. Long lasting Cooling mouth finish, warming flushed body sensation. Trichomes present. A truly enjoyable session this afternoon with a tea from the Sept 2022 club. I had hesitated to brew because of the floral scented teas but my first tea sip has just blown me away.

Cold brew! The leaves have entirely lost their scent. The tea liquid is very pale. The aroma is faint, but there's still enough to tell it's sweet and floral. The taste is still amazingly floral, although no longer overpowering. It has a long and pleasant aftertaste too. There's none of the straw or bitterness of before, so I like it better this way!

The color is a pale gold. There's a lot of scruff! The taste is overwhelmingly jasmine for a long time. It starts picking up other flavors in the aftertaste. Unfortunately, that includes bitterness. There's also sweetness and hints of fruitiness and straw. Overall, the longevity is impressive, but I don't think I'd drink this again.

Excellent flavor on the first two infusions, but later tasted soapy to me and not exactly sure why. I think this is only my second yellow tea. It was delicious at first, very well balanced between the tea and jasmine flavor, but by my third infusion it began to taste soapy. Perhaps my water temperature or ratio was off. I will try to be more precisse the next time I brew it.

Eyes: Dry Leaf: curled red-brown, white, and yellow leaves Nose: Dry Leaf: lots of fragrant jasmine Nose - Wet Leaf: Jasmine, white chocolate Eyes - Liquor: clear, yellowish, and viscous Mouth - Texture: smooth and slightly thick Mouth - Taste: Jasmine, vanilla, and toasted pumpkin seeds Mouth - Finish: very floral and expansively aromatic finish Nose - Empty Cup: Jasmine Eyes - Wet Leaf: bright green, tender and plump young leaves and buds Body - Sensation: energized at first then relaxed and happy A wonderfully unique tea to start off this month!!