Lauriam Tea House is located in Bowmanville, around a hour and a half drive to about 2 hours by train east of Toronto. My mom introduced me to the shop when I was still in school and now it is a favorite hangout when I visit my family. Tea is served to you in a white tea pot along side delicate china cups. As I was introduced to Afternoon Tea through this tea ware before it has become quite nostalgic. This tea is a White Tea Puerh, which has absorbed the sweet mandarin qualities of its fermentation "container". The leaves are dense inside the dried fruit, I had to resort to using a pick from my tea tools to pick enough leaves out. The wet leaves are quite young and very uniform in size, being not longer than an inch. They smell subtly sweet, unlike the dry leaves which have more of a mandarin smell to them.
The resulting tea is creamy and sweet. Coaxing out a salivating sensation. There is a sweet peach taste on the back of my tongue, which is the reason for me keeping such a tea close at hand. The liquor is a beautiful amber hue. I found it slowly dissipated in colour over the infusions I was able to coax out of the leaves. At this finial infusion only the salivating sensation remains and a dull sweetness with no characteristic I can pin point.I have bought this tea quite a few times over the last few years. Only pulling it out to get frustrated with the "container", something that I just have to learn more about over time.Much practice is needed for this storage method of Puerh.
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