Tea Information:

Leaf Type:  Green

Where to Buy:  Shan Valley

Tea Description:

This first flush green tea is from the Kokang region of Myanmar, close to the Yunan region in china. This is considered the highest quality tea that is available to the public in Myanmar.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

This tea is interesting because it really seems like two different teas:  when it is served hot, I get a different set of flavors than as it cools.  Both are really delicious, though!

When served hot, I get a fresh and exhilarating flavor that is rich and brothy without tasting overly vegetal.  In fact, there are very little distinct vegetative flavor to this green tea and I found that quite surprising.

There is a lovely buttery note to this – not so much a creamy, sweet butter flavor but more like a browned butter.  I’m picking up on a slightly smoky note to this as well as distant notes of flower and a nice fruit note that is like a hybrid fruit of melon, sweet green grapes and a hint of citrus that is particularly noticeable toward the finish.

The hot cup is a beautifully sweet tasting tea with notes of savory and smoke.  As the cup cools, I notice the flavors changing a bit.  I still get a pleasantly sweet cuppa, but, the aforementioned buttery note becomes more creamy now and less like a brown butter.

This is sweet and creamy!  Mmm!  I still taste those notes of fruit and flower, and I’m not tasting quite as much of a smoky element as I noticed with the hot tea.  It’s still very subtly there in the distance.  The fruit notes seem more pronounced now, and I’m tasting primarily fruit and cream with the cooled tea.

A really WONDERFUL tea – I’ve been so impressed with the 2014 teas from Shan Valley!