Osmanthus Flowers

[liralen]

Otherwise known as Gui Hua... they're a yellow flower from China, and when brewed gives a liquor that's a little piney, a little lemony, and fragrantly sweet like only flower teas can be. The taste is ethereal and even more so when just a bit of tupelo honey is added. It's just gorgeous.

The puer that they bought me was also really great, deep and mellow with age. I got four steeps from one good teaspoon of leaves. I even found my old dark Yixing pot just so I could brew it good and hot. It was really, really excellent.

Thank you, flit and amberley. The teas have been really great...

Comments

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

Osmanthus smells so lovely when it blooms! We had a great big overgrown one in my yard as a kid.

This makes mewant to go buy some pu-er. ^___^

ps - there isn't anything in the way of a w.i.p. for you in my latest lj post. nope, nothing. ^_^

[liralen.livejournal.com]

oh oh oh!! The flowers in the tube smell like the tea tastes... I wonder if they just dry the blossoms and use that for the tea? They're just dried, gold flowers...

*ZOOOMS* over to your journal...

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

Ohh Gui Hua Cha! I'm usually a big wuss about teas but I love floral ones, and Osmanthus is one of my favourites.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Wow. I can now see why!! :-) It is really, really gorgeous for me.

Neat to know that you like it, too!!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

I don't know the flower but... The tea sounds lovely. Really, really lovely.
It's so much fun to see I'm not the only tea-geek out there (even though I have time nor money to indulge my geekery too much)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yes. I'm definitely a tea-geek. Been so for... several decades. Though.. part of the teafreaks comm for only five years or so.

Jon Singer made me the teacups he made me mostly 'cause he and I were into brewing tea Old Man Style/Gung-fu style back in the early 90's. So the tiny cups and tiny Yixing pots. Lots of fun, so I served him the flowers when he was visiting recently and realized I should review it. XD