After the dental cleaning I push pedaled down to the local tea shoppe to get a cup to wash out the bad taste. As you enter the door there are the tea chests of bargain closeout teas. This time I decided to read the fine print. One said "full leaf" Ceylon Kirkoswald Dimbulla. I opened it on the spot expecting to see OP1. To my surprise whole leaf tea. I know a rare find. Some of it actually has stems. About half of it is broken whole leaf but still intact. The taste is typical Dimbulla. I made sure nobody else got any. There is a new marketing buzzword organic Bio Dynamic. Whatever that is I got some India Putharjhora green tea. I also made sure nobody else got any. I got a nice organic QLAN from China. Better than average extra thick twisted black ropes of oolong. I have to do some homework on that one. Again Bio Dynamic Indulgashinna green tea from Ceylon. When am I going to learn to stop buying Ceylon green teas. I always hope the next one will be different. Also organic Dunsandle Nilgiri black tea. I was told there was a 'hand made' Glendale Nilgiri. Nobody left me any.
Ceylon whole leaf
Aug 06, 2009
Last reply: 16 years ago
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This looks and tastes like it.
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Jim
sounds like Qi Lan, which is a Wuyi tea.
/Lew
I think it is the Rare Orchid. Its not whole leaf. The leaf looks like it was cut longitude length wise. The floral taste is overwhelmed by a woody smell. Definitely a winter snow shoveling tea for me. Id say more of a poor mans Dan Cong. When I browsed my Rosetta Stone looking for Lan I found QiLan. I keep forgeting Google supports searches like q*lan. My local tea shoppe tries its best to get the Chinese names right. This aint the first one.
Jim
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