Gunpowder Temple of Heaven-Pinhead

Light to medium grassy flavor with a tinge of hay. Pleasant vegetal body with light astringency. Gentle, inoffensive aroma. Relatively smooth, and definitely a winner at this price point. This is a solid everyday tea with a healthy amount of caffeine. Only caveat is that it is easy to over-extract this tea and turn it unpleasantly bitter; the packaging recommends 1-3 minutes steep but I would recommend erring on the side of 1 to 1.5 minutes if you're steeping Western style. Re-steeps well and develops nicely on subsequent steeps.