Zhi: Cloud and Mist (organic green tea)
Lately, I’ve been trying to find affordable organic green teas to recommend to friends and blog readers. Fun, flavorful, organic, and affordable are important factors to me in a tea and I’ve been told they are important by others.
Zhi offers a green tea that meets the above criteria. Zhi calls the China green tea | Cloud and Mist. It’s from Zhejiang Province. I’ve had several cups and each one was very enjoyable. The flavor is oceanic and vegetal with a well-defined natural sweetness. It’s very friendly to the palate. The aftertaste pleasantly lingers many seconds after a sip reminding you just how good it was. The tea does have a slight bite to it (slightly astringent), but that just adds to the character of the green tea. I can drink this tea year round. I consider it an everyday green tea. I enjoyed making this tea in my Gaiwan. I can easily get 3 flavorful steepings from the tea leaves. The aroma pretty much mirrors the flavorful. You get a spring-like vegetal aroma with an almost flowery sweet scent. Another important characteristic to this tea is the fact that it is authentic. I recommend this tea to both experienced and new green tea drinkers. It’s the kind of tea that helps new green tea drinkers appreciate a type of tea without added flavors or enhancements.
Zhi describes the tea as: “In our search for superb and unique organic China Green tea we stumbled across this gorgeous delight from Zhejiang Province. Nestled in the Tian Mu mountains lies a pristine tea garden that lovingly creates this outstanding organic tea. Stylish, long and wiry emerald leaf produces a light green infusion which is slightly astringent and quite herbaceous, with distinct honey/peach notes. This is a very savory and luscious tea full of body and charm. Simple, yet elegant.”
Zhi’s website is very well designed and it makes the checkout process very simple. I had no problems with my Zhi order.
marTEA
April 11th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Why thank you so much! We love this tea s well. I really appreciate the review. In addition to all the things you pointed out, one of the main reasons I chose this tea is for its mouth feel. It has this fullness to it that I cannot find in a lot of green teas. Which definitely makes it more fun to drink.
Thanks again,
Jeffrey L
Dr. Oolong
zhi tea
austin
April 18th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Dr. Oolong,
It’s my pleasure…every Zhi tea I tried, I enjoyed. The packaging, shipping, quality, etc were all appreciated by this tea consumer.
Thanks again,
marTEA