Spring 2025 Naka Big Trees

Amazing dry tea fragrance. Green and herbaceous. Fragrance is important to me in all tea styles. The wet aroma not quite so intense, but nice nonetheless. The tea flavor is very multifaceted, smooth, and sophisticated, like I’ve noticed with a lot of the big trees versions. I like that smoothness a lot, and this makes it worth the extra cost. Also, big trees generally tend to have better endurance than their small trees cousin, as well as a more sophisticated cha qi. Again, all worth the extra cost if your budget allows for it. (If not, small trees tea is totally worth it too. Still very good.) Naka Big Trees has a relatively modest bitterness, sweetness, low astringency (but it’s there), and herbaceousness. Very balanced, which I prefer. No awkward steeps to fight through. A very nice tea that would be welcome in my tea chest. It would be a good introduction for beginners. Bravo!

The description of this tea is spot on. I was able to remember a tea I had tried and loved from months ago, one that I didn’t know the origin, based on this description: unique bitterness on the roof of the mouth, and high-pitched fragrance. To me, it is an almost prickly sensation in my mouth, with a peach aftertaste. The aftertaste stays a long time. The body feel is light and bubbly, focused and happy. Thank you Farmerleaf for this wonderful tea, as well as the illuminating descriptions.