Instagram | The Tea Engineer

the_tea_engineer

Advent calendar tea nr 3 . Another black tea with

Advent calendar tea nr 3
.
Another black tea with little yellow slivers in-between, stems at first sight.
.
Aroma and taste: i couldnt get the idea of kiwi and unripe bananas out of my head after first smell.
So i couldnt come up with anything else
.
It reminded me of a japanse black teas. But i could only remember one of there names.
Takachiho benifuki from @hotsoup but i remember that being more floral.
.
.
.
.
.
I was close again after my bad guess from yesterday i started to worry 😅
. It was a Japanese black but Asamiya Black from @mei_leaf

Advent kalender tea nr 2 . Looks like a standard b

Advent kalender tea nr 2
.
Looks like a standard black tea.
Aroma: a char of meat or baked beans together with some umami. There was also something reminiscent of toasted pumpkin seeds but all very faint.
.
Taste: only roast and the beans returned to my palette
The liquor had a strange pink hue.
.
In general a daily drinker the only special thing was the color. Yesterday i started strong but today i had no clue 😅.
....
.
.
.
Apparently it was purple beauty green tea from lancan @yunnan_sourcing Not a tea that i remember drinking 😅

Hey everybody, I have been busy with all kinds of

Hey everybody,
I have been busy with all kinds of tea stuff, but i have been tired of social media.
Now i want to share something amazing. 😁
My gf made me a tea advent calendar (or tree) with random teas from my 200+ tea collection.
And of course other than brew parameters she made it into a taste and guess game 😅
.
So nr1
Green ball rolled oolong, just by sight and light roasted smell i would say taiwanese oolong.
.
Aroma: so many spices! A sharpness of roses and a soft umami background.
.
Taste: balance more towards flowers instead of the spices but overal the same palette.
.
Very very good choice to start with!😋
My guess was spring Pear mountain oolong from @mountain_stream_teas
I remember buying the 4 season tasting set in 2019 🤔
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatasting #christmastree #adventcalendar .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
The verdict: it was the fall sample. So close 😅

25 year TGY from @mei_leaf (now actually 28 years

25 year TGY from @mei_leaf
(now actually 28 years old)
.
Completely forgot that I still had this little treasure. Last friday, before starting my home office, day I chose my tea of the day. I found my first aged oolong ever. This amazing aged tgy from meileaf.
.
Aroma of coffee, moka, vanilla and violet candy
Taste: more coffee, spices, sweet cherries and oak.
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #looseleaftea #looseleaf #teatasting #agedoolong

Midsummer lights how from @mei_leaf 2010 Fuding sh

Midsummer lights how from @mei_leaf
2010 Fuding shou mei
.
I love aged whites so let's if this hits me in the right place.
.
Aroma: raisins, peach trees and for some it reminded me of a bakkery. I think it pairs amazingly with those round raisin puff pastries we used to have on Sunday morning.
.
Taste: first some sweetness combined with a wooden tartness giving a sensation of fruit like raisins or plums. When the taste lingers on it transforms to some kind of fruit and nuts cake combination.
.
Maybe I am just weak for aged white teas but this one is again amazing 😜.
.
#tea #teasommelier #whitetea #looseleaf #looseleaftea #teacake

Autumn Tie Guan yin 2019 from @verdanttea . Aroma:

Autumn Tie Guan yin 2019 from @verdanttea
.
Aroma: sweet floral and fruity aroma, hints of melon and osmanthus and last a pinch of nutmeg.
.
Taste: the balance change towards a little bit more grass and broccoli. Flowers has been simmered and changed a bit to camomile.
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatasting #té #cha #Chinesetea #looseleaf #looseleaftea

Traditional Tie Guan Yin 2019 from @verdanttea . A

Traditional Tie Guan Yin 2019 from @verdanttea
.
Aroma: brown sugar, burnt chocolate cake and and a dark wood.
.
Taste: fresh toasted bread slightly sweetened with burtnt sugar.
.
I would combine this with a sweet breakfast because summing what I tasted reminded me of French toast 😅
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #ilovetea #teatasting #looseleaf

3 types of bi luo chun: black, green and white. .

3 types of bi luo chun: black, green and white.
.
My favorite was the typical green😋.
.
White: aroma of hay and straw the taste was a bit more bitter than usual white tea, which gave it more of a bite.
.
Green: BI Luo Chun for is green and there is a reason this just the best of the 3. Aroma of a spring time meadow with sprouting flowers and creamy off egg yolk.
The flavor wasore focused on the green or grass and green vegetable flavors but with a nice background of roast.
.
Black: aroma if malt, it reminded me a bit of marmite. Taste was again malt but sweetened with some burnt caramel leading to the desire for chocolate😅.
(maybe I just wanted chocolate )
.
#tea #teasommelier #blacktea #whitetea #greentea #biluochun #gaiwan

Purple voodoo from @yunnan_sourcing . #tea #teasom

Purple voodoo from @yunnan_sourcing
.
#tea #teasommelier #blacktea

1985 aged se Zhong oolong from @verdanttea . Aroma

1985 aged se Zhong oolong from @verdanttea
.
Aroma:, oak, cigars molasses
Taste: Cigar, roasted almonds, amaretto, maple sirup
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #ilovetea #teatasting #looseleaf

King of duck shit dancing or Ya Shi Xiang Dancong

Qing Xiang Rou gui from @yunnan_sourcing . The sec

Qing Xiang Rou gui from @yunnan_sourcing
.
The second Rou Gui of the day.
Classic roasted nut aroma and taste but so much more fruit/flower than I'm used to, with majority orchids and hint of plumes. .
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #ilovetea #looseleaf #looseleaftea

Ma Tou Yan Rou Gui Zheng Yan from @yunnan_sourcing

Ma Tou Yan Rou Gui Zheng Yan from @yunnan_sourcing
.
Aroma: heavy roast reminds me of cacao, cigars but also roasted pecan nuts.
.
Taste: very similar but a bit more balanced to the cigars. The empty cup afterwards smelled like cinnamon 😋
.
Love Rou Gui in general and this was a good one!
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #ilovetea #teatasting #looseleaf

Jingu Da Jin Ya Camelia taliensis from @yunnan_sou

Jingu Da Jin Ya Camelia taliensis from @yunnan_sourcing
.
I have never heard of the camelia taliensis so I needed some researching to do before I wanted to post this.

Taste: a very levelled and balanced warm. It was difficult to find outliers directly but after some intensive tasting we came up with walnuts because a nutty sweetness combined with something that resembles the minerality of that nut. Maybe some herbs but that was difficult to pinpoint which ones.
.
#tea #teasommelier #blacktea

Qian li Xiang "thousand mile aroma" Wuyi rock oolo

Qian li Xiang "thousand mile aroma" Wuyi rock oolong from @yunnan_sourcing
.
Medium roasted Wuyi tea but smells surprisingly floral. The aroma was somewhere between a heavy roasted Wuyi rock oolong and a floral Dancong.
.
Taste gave a little more what om used ti from Wuyi rock oolongs, like roasted nuts but the main flavor was floral.
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #looseleaftea #looseleaf #wuyi

Wu Liang Mountain Gao Shan Oolong from @yunnan_sou

Wu Liang Mountain Gao Shan Oolong from @yunnan_sourcing
.
Leaves: ball rolled green oolong .
Aroma: very green, grass and vegies

Taste: reminds me of typical Anxi tie Guan yin but with a different balance, slight spice notes such as cinnamon and brown sugar but very strong on the vegetables almost like green asparagus and green beans
.
#tea #teasommelier #teatasting #oolong #thee

Classic Bai Lin Gong "Golden Monkey" black tea fro

Classic Bai Lin Gong "Golden Monkey" black tea from Fuding @yunnan_sourcing
.
I haven't been posting for a while because I'm too busy working to get some serious tasting in 😒
...
but I need to get my mind some more rest so I'm hopingto change that with dozens of new teas to taste 😁😋
.
So back to the tea,
.
Beautiful black and gold tea leaves with strangely enough an aged white tea smell from the bag. 🤔
.
Dry leaf aroma of cacao or chocolate cake
.
Taste: spices, again cacao but also some roasted pine nuts.
.
I had a discussion while back about taste/flavor/aroma what is the difference?
For me aroma is the experience of the nose, flavor of the mouth and taste is the combination. What do you think?
.
#tea #teasommelier #blacktea

Yushuwan badashan from @liquidproust . Saturday te

Yushuwan badashan from @liquidproust
.
Saturday tea break between sports and family Christmas and new year dinners. I opened this beauty of a Sheng puer teacake
.
Aroma: sweet, pine nuts, hay, mineral, little high pitched fruitiness
.
Taste: very mineral, on the edge between stone and metal. Immediately the sensation of higher alertness and calm hits your mind.
Then I found some more hay and again some faint sweetness.
.
#tea #teasommelier #thee #té #gongfucha #Chinesetea #sheng #puer #puerh #teacake

2014 golden needle white lotus, dayi shou puer fro

2014 golden needle white lotus, dayi shou puer from @liquidproust
.
I never had a shou puer with this much flavor.
Aroma: a bit fishy, black earth
.
Taste: I was happy that the fishy aroma was gone as soon as the leaves where wet. The taste was very strong and mainly cigars and black earth. The flavor or mouthfeel was also very mineral, you could almost feel the stone minerality flow threw your teeth.
.
This is a good shou. Definitely for people who look shou in general, it packs a great punch of all tastes you want.
.
#thee #tea #teasommelier #puerh #shou #teatasting #té #cha #Taiwan #taiwanestea #teaeducation
#teatime #teaaddict #ilovetea #tea #timefortea #teagram #instatea #teaaddict #teaaholic #tealife #steeplife

I had a special session with @teaadventuresdotnet

I had a special session with @teaadventuresdotnet this Monday. For a while now, I had a set of aged tieguanyin oolongs from Master zhang @verdanttea
.
I wanted to taste the evolution of time in a single sort of tea so this set has: special grade Qing Xiang 1985, normal 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005
The special is a non roasted aged oolong al the others are roasted
.
We started from old to new an noticed a trend. The oldest tea has some black pepper, earth flavor and in the background some spices like clove, cinnamon or nutmeg, the younger the tea, the more the balance changed from pepper and earth to more sweet spices like cinnamon, vanilla and caramel or butterscotch. The perfect balance and sweetest tea was from 1995.
2000 and 2005 teas had only a part of the sweetness and almost nothing of the earthiness left.
.
The conclusion is that with ages first comes sweetness and then earth but probably specifically for this tgy. The sweetness is also heavily influenced by the roast as all the roasted teas where sweeter. This was the ideal after 24 years of waiting. 😅🤔
.
#tea #teasommelier #oolong #oolongtea #teatime #gongfucha #ilovetea #teatasting #teatime #teahead #thee #té #yixing #agedoolong

Meer laden Volg op Instagram