Can someone recommend a green tea (organic preferred) that tastes like slightly salty water in which cabbage or other leafy vegetables have been boiled? Is this what tea vendors mean by the description "vegetal"?
R.B. Dunbar
cabbage tasting green?
Dec 15, 2003
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Not a green tea exactly, but some green Puerhs have a brothy quality that reminds me of cabbage, or better still, collard green "pot liquor". Green Puerh Bamboo Tea from Imperial Tea Court is definitely one such tea. You might also try Green Pu-erh (P-GPE-1) from Silk Road Teas. Warning: some people totally hate this kind of tea.
I don't think so. "Vegetal" is a pretty vague word, but I doubt most people who use it are thinking of as strong-tasting a vegetable as cabbage, and I don't think a salty, brothy quality is what is usually intended by "vegetal" either.
/Lew
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