Xin Yang Mao Jian Green Tea from Teasenz

xin_yan_mao_jianTea Information:

Leaf Type:  Green

Where to Buy:  Teasenz

Tea Description:

The most flavorful and fragrant of all Chinese green teas. Xin Yang Mao Jian’s small, roundish leaves with fine, white hairs develop into an intense green color when brewed, producing a refreshing liquor that transports you to a relaxing, calming world after a long day. Robust flavor, lingering fragrance and an invigorating taste.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

I think I fell in love with this Xin Yang Mao Jian Green Tea from Teasenz at first sight.  The leaves are gorgeous!  Long, slender, elegant looking leaves that are beautifully deep, forest-y green with tiny white fuzz.  I could tell by looking at these leaves that I was in for a top notch Chinese green tea.

Of course, I’ve come to expect nothing less from Teasenz.  They seem to always deliver some of the very best teas I’ve tasted!

And this is a remarkable Mao Jian!

The dry leaf aroma is somewhere between steamed spinach and kelp, leaning more toward the steamed spinach.  The brewed tea also has a strong vegetal note, but, I find that the flavor is less vegetative than the fragrance would suggest.

Oh, sure, it still has a vegetative taste to it, but it’s not as strong as I expected it to be.  Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I expected more of a “spinach-y” or a “grassy” or even a “kelpy” sort of flavor but this is more like a sweet vegetable, like maybe a steamed artichoke heart.

This is sweet!  It has a strong sweetness to it that seems to develop on the palate, starting off rather light, and then by the time I reached mid-cup, the flavor is intense and it lingers long into the aftertaste.  Just after the sweetness washes over the palate, I start to notice the nutty flavors develop.  It finishes with a delicate astringency.  The aftertaste remains sweet long after the sip.

A really lovely Mao Jian.  This one gets high marks!

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