Goomtee Silver Green 2nd Flush from Darjeeling Tea Lovers

by liberteas

Tea Information: 

Leaf Type:  Green

Where to Buy:  Darjeeling Tea Lovers

Tea Description:

GOOMTEE SILVER GREEN is a visual delight for GREEN TEA LOVERS. This tea comes with a lot of SILVER NEEDLES to add glory to this wonderful and rare tea. Each sip is an instant trip to blissful nirvana.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Oh… this is nice!

I am absolutely loving this Goomtee Silver Green!  It’s not at all what I expected when I first opened the package.  As I usually do when I first open a package of tea, I inhaled deeply to take in the fragrance.  It had a very vegetative and earthy fragrance, reminding me of the forest floor here in the Pacific Northwest – earthy, mossy, and woody.

Once it’s brewed it takes on a stronger vegetative tone, reminding me a bit of the smell that I’d experience while walking through the “green” section of the produce area in a natural foods market.  Very green.  Very fresh.

The taste is not quite as vegetative as I would have expected given the strong vegetative and earthy tones I experienced from smelling the dry leaf.  Sure, it’s still vegetative, but, it is more like mild vegetables, like something between a steamed artichoke and steamed spinach, with a lovely buttery undertone.  It’s remarkably smooth and free of that bitter grassy tone that green teas can sometimes possess.  It has a slight astringency to it … but again, not nearly as much as I would expect from a Darjeeling green.

But it still has much of what I would expect from a Darjeeling green, too.  It has that crisp, vibrant taste that is almost bubbly.  Hints of fruit notes, although with this green variety the fruit notes are not as strongly pronounced as they might be with an oxidized Darjeeling.  Hints of spice as well, but again, a mellower spice note than what I might experience from an oxidized Darjeeling.

A spectacular tea, I just love the sweetness of this cup, as well as the deliciously satisfying broth-y taste.  It is very comforting, a nice cuppa to enjoy with the cooler weather of autumn.

liberteas

Anne (aka the Mad Tea Artist) has celebrated her 29th birthday for many years now. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her hubby and her youngest daughter. Her oldest daughter is married and has bestowed Anne with the proud title of "Gramma" and her grandson is about the cutest boy you ever did see. Anne started her journey with tea as a casual drinker and became more serious about her tea drinking when she realized that she couldn't drink coffee. Shortly thereafter, she started becoming obsessed with the beverage and she started creating small-batch, artisan blends of tea that she sold online as LiberTEAS. After a few years, she realized she wasn't cut out to be the sole proprietor of a business so she closed LiberTEAS and started reviewing teas online. She met Jennifer through another blog that they both reviewed for and they decided to start their own review blog. This review blog! Throughout her journey as a tea reviewer, she discovered 52Teas and became enamored with the idea of creating a new tea every week. When the founder of 52Teas decided he wanted to move on, he offered the business to Anne but knowing that she wasn't cut out to be a sole proprietor, she instead offered the company to her oldest daughter who employs her as the Mad Tea Artist for 52Teas!

This post was posted in Darjeeling, Green Tea

2 thoughts on “Goomtee Silver Green 2nd Flush from Darjeeling Tea Lovers”

  1. Thanks to you I could almost taste this Goomtee Silver Green and I’d admire how you deliver it on your article! Where can you get these? Is these available in a local store?

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