Hulk Spring 2025 Simao Green Tea
Price range: $6.25 through $46.00
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Description
Puer might be the most well-known tea coming out of Yunnan these days, but that wasn’t always the case. Before puer’s popularity was renewed in the 2000s, the most commonly enjoyed tea locally, was green tea, usually from Simao. Even today, it’s more likely than not that the security guard, bus driver, police officer or store employee you’d encounter in Kunming still just threw some local green tea in their thermos to get them through the day.
History aside, this green tea has a dense flavour, lasting fragrance and slight astringency. This tea uses first flush material, which emphasizes the sweetness and gives it a more delicate fragrance, with some vegetal and nutty notes. Overall, it makes for an excellent budget green tea that produces a pleasant and uncomplicated experience.
For one of us, this tea represents a taste of childhood, growing up drinking dad’s thermos-brewed green tea. While this tea might not have the same cache as many puer, nor be something you want to store away for ageing, it’s just as representative of the taste of Yunnan.
We recommend brewing this tea with 80-85c water in a glass gongdaobei/pitcher and using a smaller amount of tea than you would for gongfu brewing. Something around 1 gram to 30ml of water should be good, but feel free to adjust this depending on taste (too bitter, use less tea; if too weak, use more). Brew the first infusion for around 1 minute, then keep topping up the pitcher as you please.
Region: Simao, Yunnan
Picking Period: February 27-March 2nd
$0.10/gram
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Cedras Corvid (verified owner) –
Wow, this stuff is strong! Tried it both in a glass gongdaobei and currently grandpa style, and it is great as both, just make sure to go light on the leaves. Very vegetal upfront, with it almost reminding me of asparagus, with the sweater and more nutty notes coming out in later infusions. Very nutty in scent for me, and it is very fun seeing the leaves unfurl to their full size as you brew them. Decently thick mouthfeel with a lingering sweetness that sticks to the teeth. Imagine this would be great in a thermos too, but take my 5 stars with a grain of salt because I am not super well versed in green tea. Also, the tin glows!
Alexandra Verville-Paris (verified owner) –
Motivates · Feels Good
Smell// Freshly harvested sweet corn, salty notes, cream of broccoli soup, vegetal, sesame, corn and bacon soup, cooked asparagus.
Texture// Thick liquor that sticks to the teeth, oily, fizzy, heavy on the palate.
Taste// Roasted (burned?) nuts, salty Japanese broth, herby crackers, floral, lime-flavored pastry.
Body Sensation// Refreshing, hot heart rate that kicks in the chest, smiling cheeks, energy.
Mike. Y (verified owner) –
Vegetal, sweet, savoury, fresh and clean.
thick and sticky mouthfeel
easy drinking and straight forward daily drinker.
Eric Branchaud (verified owner) –
This is one of my favorite green teas this year, in a year that has been quite good for Chinese green tea in general. Leads with the typical edamame/toasted cereal grain notes, but quickly morphs to clean and fresh citrus notes with a touch of sweetness. Use less than you think you need, and you’ll still get a refreshing, dull-flavored green tea out of it.
siorbai (verified owner) –
An incredibly delicate, corn-like flavor. Very buttery and smooth. It truly requires a lower brewing temperature, and then it unfolds like creamy milk. Gentle and light — a green tea you always want to come back to.