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And for now, why not try these delicious looseleaf teas?
Sencha Green Tea
A delicious everyday tea, no sins involved
Sencha is like the best grade of Japanese green tea you can get… until you go rat-crazy and start buying Gyokurocha and whatnot. For a too-classy everday tea I love Sencha.
It’s got an almost sweet taste compared to some Japanese greens, which tend to the earthier (bancha, I’m talking about you) or flat-out toasty. When I need to impress somebody who has taken the first step out of bags, I throw some Sencha in the pot.
Dragonwell (Lung Ching) Green Tea
Dragon Well also greens your gullet
This one’s an even higher grade of green, straight outta China. Dragonwell (AKA “Lung Ching”) takes all the green of green tea and greens it even more. Good for multiple infusions, so you can green all day.
Your kidneys will thank you.
As will your taste buds. Seriously, this is one fine tea.
Remember that each infusion of a tea (that is, every time you brew the same leaves with new water) has its own character. Typically you’re going to get an ever-so-slightly weaker brew each time. Yet you also get a different character in the flavor, so enjoy!
Darjeeling Black Tea
Darjeeling is So fine
Okay, what’s next. Looks like… DARJEELING
Which is a region as much as a tea. You’ve had champagne? Comes from Champagne, off in France. Bonjour!
Same with Darjeeling, India. Offers us various teas in various grades from various and sundry estates. You could spend your whole life just getting to know the nuances and nooks of this corner of the Subcontinent. Try this Darjeeling and acquaint your tongue with its first flush. Then ever onward and upward to more and more great and good things.
White Peony (Bai Mu Dan)
A fine tea not a flower
Such as…. our final tea today, White Peony!
AKA “Bai mu dan” or “Paimudan” or “What Piney,” in the parlance of my accented youth.
A fine introduction to the rarefied world of White Teas. What’s a white? Kind of like a green, only so green it’s white. Pick fresh from the first darling buds and kept all delicate-like. Sophisticated, delicious, delicate. Some whites are so delicate they taste like water. This one’s got a fuller flavor, and contrasts nicely with a green.
