Nepali Green Pearl

Nepali Green Pearl Tea from Rainbow Grocery in SF.

One of my coworkers has noticed that I am often making tea, and I sometimes share with him, so he brought in some he got at Rainbow Grocery, with the caveat, “I don’t know much about tea, but Nepali Tea seemed interesting.”

I found it interesting, as well. I didn’t know ANY green tea was made in Nepal or India. I thought it was all Black.

My initial impressions are that some care was taking with producing this tea. The dried tea is well formed and undamaged. After steeping I see that it is 1 bud, 1 leaf.

I brewed this with my usual Chinese Green tea gaiwan method.

6 grams of tea, water starting around 185 degrees F.

The first thing I notice is a smoky ham-like character. Not like a tea that has been smoked or contaminated with smoke as part of the kill green, but as character of the tea. A little greasy, with a thick soup in the first steeps, but quickly thinning.

The first steeps are super intense, but the flavor quickly fades as the brewing continues.

Unfortunately, the overall impression the tea leaves, after the initial flavor shock, is of an unpleasant lingering bitterness in the throat, which continues through the less intense later steeps.

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