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If you have ever had junior mints (candy) that is exactly the nose and taste of this tea. So if you enjoy junior mints you will probably like this tea.

Update: I am sending some of this out to Meghann and when I opened the little tin it smelled heavenly so I decided hey while I am packing this up for her I’ll go ahead and enjoy a cup myself. Anyway on to the tasting note I still get the mint but today I did not pick up on the coco part as much it’s is a very smooth mint flavor, soft and I want to say that the mint did not out do the green tea which it is blended with but unfortunately I don’t recall actually tasting the tea itself. I definently enjoy it but can’t wait to compare to some other mint green tea mixes to see where this one will fall.

This pu er reminds me of what drinking a cup of folgers coffee might be like. I don’t drink coffee so I can’t say that with 100 percent certainty but it’s what I would imagine it to be like. It steep light amber and then gets magically darker and darker till it becomes black blacker than any black tea I’ve ever had it could be mistaken for a cup of coffee.
It smells like it is going to be hard to get down in terms of it has a bitter smell to it not fishy like some pu erhs I drink. It is fishy on the rinse though, It has a smoky almost a bit of a tobacco/nicotine smell to it but the taste is not so bad not something I would ever crave like my beloved oolongs but it is definently an appetite suppressant when I drink a glass of this I’m not hungry for a couple hours.
A family friend brought this from China he lost 80lbs last time I saw him after drinking this tea for 6 months he says he’s just not hungry when he drinks a couple cups of pu erh a day. While I don’t need to lose 80 lbs I thought if I could lose 5 or 10 lbs drinking tea why not.
So while it is not a tea I would recommend it makes me interested in trying more pu erh until I find the right one (or two or three) to suit my palate.

I totally agree with Luthien (the first post) on this one. In that it is a pretty good oolong but you can’t beat a good Formosa Oolong! Formosa Oolongs are my current favorite so I maybe biased. I will continue to drink my monkey picked until it’s all gone but won’t rebuy Monkey picked from Teavana. It’s not worth the price when their are better oolongs at more reasonable prices.

I have only had one cup but found it to be one that smelled great but taste was kinda medicinal. After reading all the other’s reviews I’ll revisit it and if I still don’t like it hot I’ll try it iced.

A nice morning cup. I’m not sure what’s exactly in the blend it’s a little smoky and very smooth.

Nice Organic Citrus Oolong. The Citrus doesn’t seem to over power the oolong it’s a nice cup.

When I smelled it in the shop I thought I have to try this tea, but I was already sipping on a pot of Holiday Blend so I thought I better take a couple ozs. home or I’ll have to make the 45 minute trek back up here next weekend because I won’t be able to stop thinking about how good it smelled.

It smells like raisins, rosepetals black tea and currants if you can imagine those mixed together. It makes a beautiful reddish pinkish brew it’s a okay cup a little strong on the currants making it a tad bitter for my taste but I will finish it probably won’t purchase it again though. Too many teas too little time, to be drinking only “okay” teas.

I stopped drinking sodas/colas because I can get my caffeine fix from tea! So I decided to stock up on some black teas to get me up and going in the morning that’s when I discovered Organic China Mist a really nice cup of black tea without the harsh aftertaste of some black teas. It has a soft smoky flavor. Not a bad way to start your day!

After hearing of a family friend who lost 80lbs drinking Puerh I decided to give hot tea’s a try. You see I am from Texas and we like our iced tea’s here we don’t drink very much hot tea. So I decided that I would try some teas and looked up local tea shops well there was Teavana (of course) and I tried and liked some of theirs but then I decided to explore more “exotic” type teas and that’s when it happened all of a sudden I fell head over heels for this Formosa oolong! It is so delicious sometimes I feel like I couldn’t possibly enjoying something so much and not be overdoing it with the calories but I am. The first hot tea that I can say I truly wouldn’t want to live without! It tastes like an ordinary oolong then all of a sudden a milky almost, but not quite a hint of caramel hits you!

Nice puerh when I first purchased the tea I found it to be a little too fishy it felt like I was about to experience and asian ginger fish dinner! But after sticking with it, I have come to enjoy it more and more especially the second steeping it is quite good when I am working and hungry but don’t have time to eat when I am working on the computer it hits the spot!

I totally agree with the other Angie’s review on this one. I enjoyed it even those some tastes felt a little like a medicine, other tastes felt like they were sweet and woodsy. Will drink again until I finish the tin but won’t buy more.

My first shot at an Earl Grey came in the teavana gift set. I was disappointed as I hear everyone talk about how wonderful Earl Grey’s are and this one was hard to drink because the smell made me feel kinda nauseous not that the smell was bad. It’s that I felt like I was about to force myself to drink perfume! I didn’t finish the cup but gave it an honest shot and it is smooth but I just couldn’t get over the perfumy smell. I really wanted to like it but couldn’t get over the smell.

Great morning tea to get the day started. One of my faves for mornings!

I Agree with the other reviews of this tea. Very tasty at the store (I think they use ALOT of german rock sugar) but made at home its not as potent. It is still good even with no sweetner added, just not as good as it is at the store.

Update: I don’t know what’s going on here. The more tea’s I drink the more I find myself not liking some of the tea’s I started out adoring? While I am new to tea this is kinda baffling to me! This tea was one of my gateway teas into the wide world of tea recently I have been drinking more and more tea and so today I decided to sit down with my old friend Samurai Chai/white Ayurvedic mix from Teavana and it seems like it has NO taste at all!! The smell the same I made it the same as I always have I don’t know what’s going on why does it lack flavor hmmm I’ll try it again in a few days and see what I think then.

Great Pu erh from Teavana, if you like the benefits of pu erh but not the fishy smell of some pu erhs you should give this one a try. Not a typical pu erh.

Update: Bumping up this rating because I love it so much. It has the earthy taste of puerh with the sweet smell and taste of strawberries. Unfortunately this was my last spoonful I will definently have to reorder.

Update No. 2: Bumping this rating down. This WAS my favorite Puerh AND Strawberry flavored tea but they decided to do an upgrade on it and now it taste to mellow like strawberries with cream. Now I’m stuck with 2 new ounces and it’s just not the same :(