gurdymonkey | Tea Time: Moonlight White Tea and Snow Chrysanthemum Buds from Yunnan Sourcing

(Meant to post this yesterday and got sidetracked by going back to the first season of "The Expanse" for a re-watch.)

This is another dragon ball. As it's a white tea, I did 185F at 30 seconds for the first steep. The tea took on more color than I would have expected from a white tea, honey colored in the cup. I'm not certain how much of that was the orangey brown chrysanthemums. It had an autumnal scent like the vague memory of burning leaves. Or that cedar, pencil-shaving smell. Woody, anyway. The flavor was lightly spicy with a sweet finish at the back end.

On the second steep (45 seconds), it was about the same. By the third steep (60 seconds), the leaves had unfurled all the way, the color had gone the reddish brown I would expect of a black tea, and the flavor had opened up a bit. Warm, cedar-y and still sweet.

Definitely not what I expected based on the name, but a nice tea nonetheless.