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"Green Snail Spring"
Origin: China, Yunnan
Tea colour: green tea
Dry leaves:
Aspect: lovely rolled leaves with plenty of large downy buds.
Scents: very intense notes: mineral, metallic, animal, planty, a touch of sweet vanilla, honey, straw.
Brewed leaves:
Colour: a beautiful green.
Scents: mineral, metallic, animal, planty, fruity (stewed fruit, quince).
Liquor:
Colour: a clear, pale yellow liquor with green glints.
Texture: thick and smooth in the mouth to start, followed by a delicate astringency that develops on the back of the palate, giving it a really good length.
Flavour: smooth and sweet, slightly acidic and a touch of bitterness.
Aromas: a very planty start (raw vegetable) with mineral, metallic notes, animal hints and a very fruity bouquet (black fruit, blackcurrant, blueberry) and citrus (lemon, grapefruit).
Aromatic profile and length in the mouth: lovely long fruity, planty (mint, aniseed) flavours with metallic and animal notes. Intense and well balanced.
Our verdict:
A green tea from Er Shan mountain (1,800-2,200 metres altitude) in Yunnan province, harvested in a subtropical climate in March 2011.
This is a delicious tea: thick and smooth yet astringent. The pronounced mineral, planty and fruity notes are long, with a good presence in the mouth.
This tea was originally known as “Xia Si Ren Xiang”, which translates as “appalling smell”. Ancient legend has it that the workers had filled their baskets but wanted to continue with the plucking, so they stuffed large quantities of leaves beneath their tunics. Heated by the warmth of their bodies, the leaves developed an “appalling smell”. This description was associated with this tea for a long time, until Emperor Kangxi, who loved the tea but not its name, decided to rename the imperial drink “Bi Luo Chun” (“Spring Jade Spiral”).
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