Sau Mei is a family of tea that is very popular in HK to go with morning timsum sessions. It is not really a connoisseur's stuff.
Apparently Furry Peony's Chinese name is Sau Mei King. This must mean it is the best among the relatively average stuff.
From the appearance, the tea leaves contain lots of dried stems mixed among dark and green leaves. This suggests the tea are picked in rather unrefined manner (vs picking gently only the young shoots). The tea are semi-fermented and not steamed and dried (thus leaves are not curled up as most high end tikuanying are).
I measured about 8gm of tea leaves for my tasting. With 98C water, and brewed for 2 min in the first instance, the resultant tea color is very pleasingly golden. The taste is also rather pleasant, albeit with a distinct "green" or "raw" tinge as an after-taste, as to be expected with high content of green leaves. By and large, it is a big departure from our usual oolong (tikuanying) or the dark "pu erh".
I am sure the HGGers will appreciate its thirst-quenching property, especially after a exhausting round of golf pulling one's own trolly.
On my rating scale , i will accord Furry Peony a 6
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