茶笔 Chá Bǐ – The Tea Pen

Category: Herbal Tea

  • 生的有机蒲公英根茶与木槿和锡兰肉桂。Raw Organic Dandelion Root Tea with Hibiscus and Ceylon Cinnamon

     #TodaysTea, #今天的茶, #JīnTiāndeChá#Tea, #茶, #Chá.

    Today I was reorganizing my tea shelf, and decided that I wanted to sample this tisane, after all it’s supposed to be healthy. 😂

  • Yě Shēng Lǎo Yīng Chá, 野生老鷹茶, Wild Eagle (Herbal) Tea

    Spring, 2021; Litsea cubeba; Ya’an, Mending Shan, Sichuan; leaves & occasional stems, pan fried; 700m
    #TodaysTea, #今天的茶, #JīnTiāndeChá.
    Infusion: 2.3g in 115ml for 1-2 min. @90deg. C

    Dry Leaf Aroma: milk chocolate, cotton candy, honey, malt, hint of peach;
    Wet Leaf Aroma: soft green vines, mildly spicy;
    Liquor: golden amber colour with a bready, biscuit-like aroma;
    Mouthfeel: viscous, syrupy, creamy, stimulating, sweet, slight prickly dryness in the back of the throat;
    Taste: pleasant, slightly spicy, herbal, honey-like, with a lingering sweet finish;

    Opinion: Laoying, Eagle/Hawk Tea is a herbal tissane made from the Chinese Mountain Pepper bush, which grows wild, around Ya’an, on Mending Mountain in Sichuan Province. It is frequently served as a digestive after spicy and oily meals, and its medicinal properties assist blood sugar regulation in the case of diabetes and helps to regulate and control lung (such as asthma,) throat, and sinus issues. All in all, it is a very pleasant tasting, and enjoyable, herbal tea.

    ***This tea was provided by 小懒猫(Liu Lin) of Sichuan Tea Farm.

  • Yě Shēng Qī Yè Jiǎo Gǔ Lán Chá, 野生七叶绞股蓝茶, Wild Seven Leaves Jiaogulan Tea

    2018; var. Gynostemma pentaphyllum; Dayao Shan, Guangxi; leaves only, sundried; 800-1500m;
    #TodaysTea, #今天的茶, #JīnTiāndeChá.

    Infusion: 5g in 200ml for 10 sec.@85deg. C

    Dry Leaf Aroma: herbal, raisins, prunes;
    Wet Leaf Aroma: strong, sharp, spicy;
    Liquor: golden yellow with a faint mineral aroma;
    Mouthfeel: thick, viscous, sweet with a prominent bitter finish on the tip of the tongue;
    Taste: sweet, oily, medicinal, vaguely fishy, with a sharp, mineral pungency, and lingering mouthwatering finish;

    Opinion: Known as, “Southern Ginseng“ and the Tea of longevity, this tea does have a ginseng-like character to it. I have a kind of love-hate relationship with this tea, I know it’s good for me but it tastes like medicine. I guess this is one of those teas that, like a new pair of shoes, is uncomfortable at first, but grows on you with time.

  • Mao Yan Mei Herbal Tea (Tisane)

    #TodaysTea, #今天的茶, Jīn Tiān De Chá.

    Dry leaf aroma: like dusty raisins, and stone fruit pits;
    Wet leaf aroma: similar to dry;
    Liquor: pale yellow, first wash looks like swamp water;
    Mouthfeel/Taste/Flavour: a mouthwatering immediacy on the tip of the tongue, with a slightly bitter, sour astringency followed by a thick creamy mouthfeel, leaving lingering metallic tingling and noticeable sweetness.

    Opinion: The tea was given to me by a friend who could not remember what its was, or where she got it from. After posting it as an identity challenge within my LinkedIn Network it was identified.

    Mao Yan Mei, (Ampelosis Grossedentata) is a rare, wild natural herbal tea from Hunan. It grows wild, in the red sandstone soils on Yunwu Mountain, which is located in Zhang Jia Jie (张家界), in the northwest of Hunan. Ampelosis grossdentata has been called, “longevity vine,” or “folk magic tea”. It is used as a medicinal tea and contains 17 amino acids, including methionine, leucine and glutamic acid, etc., 14 trace elements such as K, Ca, Fe, Zn, Mg, etc., and a total of over 6% biological flavones, apparently.

  • Yī Shēng Qī Yè #jiǎogǔlán Cha, 野生七叶绞股蓝茶, Wild Seven Leaves Jiaogulan Tea

    #TodaysTea, #今天的茶, 2018; var. #Gynostemma pentaphyllum; Dayao Shan, Guangxi; leaves only, sundried; 800-1500m.

    Infusion: Steeped – Tea Bottle: 3g in 150ml

    Opinion: Jiǎogǔlán, or Gynostemma pentaphyllum, is a Tea made from the leaves of a vine that grows in the mountains of southern China. It came to prominence through Japanese research into Octogenarians in southern China, concluding that the daily consumption of Jiaogulan tea may have been a significant contributing factor to the long and healthy lives of elderly villagers.

    Nowadays this Tea comes in two forms, its original “wild” vine status, and the sweeter “farmed” vine, also it comes in 3, 5 (penta-phylum), and 7 leaf varieties. Today’s Tea, was quite bitter-sweet with the sweetness lingering on afterwards in the finish. It is generally recommended to drink 1-2 cups per day.