Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Mark T. Wendell
Product Review:
This rich, green tea is grown in the mountains of China’s famous Zhejiang tea region. The small and tender curled leaves brew a golden colored cup that is full of classic green tea flavor. Due to its unique character, our Triple Cup green tea can be infused several times before the flavor fades.
Taster’s Review:
When I first opened the package, I noticed how small the leaves seemed to be. They are greyish-green when dry and they almost look like gunpowder pellets and I had to check the product description to make sure this wasn’t, in fact, a gunpowder tea. Once infused, these leaves – while still tiny and almost frail-looking – turn a very vivid green color.
Those tiny, tender green leaves unfurl slowly to produce a pale, clear green liquor that smells a little grassy and pleasantly sweet. That description could equally describe the flavor of the tea – it is lightly vegetative (I don’t know that I would call this “grassy” because it tastes more like vegetables than grass to me) with a smooth sweetness that washes over the palate. The sweetness is slightly nutty – not so much a roasted kind of nutty taste, but more of a blanched-nuts-that-have-been-creamed-into-a-nut-butter kind of sweetness.
The leaves submit several flavorful infusions. I recommend infusing in a vessel that will allow you to watch the leaves unfurl – this is a fun tea to watch.
This is a delicious and mild green tea that I think would be enjoyable to the green tea novice as well as the green tea connoisseur.
Triple Cup Green Tea from Mark T. Wendell
Where To Buy: Mark T. Wendell
Product Description: This rich, green tea is grown in the mountains of China’s famous Zhejiang tea region. The small and tender curled leaves brew a golden colored cup that is full of classic green tea flavor. Due to its unique character, our Triple Cup green tea can be infused several times before the flavor fades.
Tasters Review:
It’s often that I ‘think’ I know what a tea is going to taste like and it ends up tasting completely different than I thought it would. Believe it or not…I LIKE it when this happens! I like being wrong! I enjoy being surprised. I think it’s wonderful when teas aren’t stereotypical. This is one of those teas.
Triple Cup Green Tea from Mark T. Wendell tastes much like a ‘precious eyebrow’ type but MUCH better! It has a slight vegetal aftertaste. What I was thinking it was going to taste like was a very strong grassy-green but it has a very unique and pleasant taste. One that I have never encountered in another green tea.
This smells almost slightly chewy for a green.
Another neat thing about this tea is that it’s a grey-green leaf when dry but when infused it brightens up to a REALLY vibrant green color…much like when you blanch a green vegetable…like Broccoli for example…and it comes out EXTREMELY bright green…VERY neat leaf color!
This is a very good, solid green and I like it!