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What an excellent tea to have when your recovering from a cold. Lemon and ginger will act as a tag team against sore throats and a blocked up nose.

It’s not strongly lemony but you can taste it and it’s more lemon pulp than lemon rind, so it’s a sweeter lemon that’s less tart and waxy than the rind. Along with the gentle lemon you get the fiery ginger that kicks in from the after taste of the lemon and that fiery taste burns down the throat (in a good way) and it picks up with each sip.

I think this tea works so well because it’s not particularly strong and the balance of both flavours has been done very well.

Overall it’s a nice, gentle, lemony, gingery and tasty. It’s not my favourite lemon tea but it’s a nice pick me up when your feeling ill.

Backlog: This was your average spearmint tea (fresh and minty) with a touch of a spicy cinnamon and a somewhat sweet taste..almost licorice.

First sips were fine but it seemed that the more I drank the more this licorice style flavour kept growing and I truly hate licorice. For me this was too interesting of a mixture, I like my mint tea minty.

Overall I found it a little odd with the flavour combination and I shall be passing this off to a friend instead.

Another thing I love about this tea is that is has vitamin C. Hopefully that will help to heal my cold (which came on last night).

Fruit tea to the rescue!

I’m another person that is unfamiliar with Tamarind so unfortunately I have nothing to compare this with.

Whilst raw this tea has no particular fragrance and the leaves are a mixture of brown and red which is perfect for autumn. Whilst brewed it retains a lovely dark brown colour.

Without sugar:
Alright this tastes like a strong black tea with oodles of natural sweetness and a touch of sourness and bitterness. I’m guessing the sugar would mask the sourness and bitterness a little bit. There is a touch of vanilla which helps to smooth out the fizzy sourness.

With sweetener:
Still a lovely and strong black tea but with more sweetness and more vanilla. It would seem that the sweetener truly does bring out some of the flavours. Now there is also a dark taste, very similar to dark cocoa.

Definitely a unique tasting blend, while not being my favourite from Butiki it’s still wonderful as something different. Very glad I ordered this.

I found the look of this tea curious whilst it’s raw, it’s big on minty fragrance while consisting of teeny tiny pieces that resembles mixed herbs. Small pieces are always fun to watch dance and swim around in the boiling water. :)

Once boiled this tea is dark honey in colour and smells like spearmint with after tones of creamy vanilla (almost like mint ice cream).
To follow the instructions given to brew this tea I have added a little sugar for my first taste test so I can drink this as it’s deigned to be drank.

I love mint tea when I’m in the mood for them (which is usually quite late at night) and I expected this to be overpoweringly minty judging by the smell alone but boy was I wrong. First sip highlights the mint AND the vanilla that have blended very well together and are of an equal strength. As for the after taste there is a slight (and I mean very slight) floral taste which must be the lavender.

For me this tastes like mint chocolate chip ice cream but of course in tea form. It’s so wonderfully uplifting and suitable to fill the urges for anything minty and sweet. :)

Half way down the cup the vanilla becomes the stronger taste sensation out of the two and it gets creamier and creamier with every sip. I see myself becoming a Butiki Tea fan girl completely unashamedly. Everything I have tried so far has been unique and amazingly tasty.

The basics: Mint = Refreshing. Vanilla = Smooth. Lavender = Sweet. Mix them altogether and you get a cup of heaven. Try if you like any of the above ingredients.

I decided to have another cup of green twirl this morning as I have to sort out my wardrobe this morning (which believe me is no small or easy task).

What I forgot to mention in my previous description is that this has a high caffeine content so after a good few mouthfuls it feels as though someone has slipped me some rocket fuel. It’s perhaps the strongest ‘large and in high powered charge’ feeling I have had for a tea so this is my new energy tea.

Plus this steeping is slightly weaker than my previous cup while the grassy taste is still growing on me (as grass does….grow).

This is from week 1 of the Canton Tea Club which arrived this morning. I am not that familiar with Indian green’s so this will be a nice treat from the norm.

The tea itself is in small twisted pieces that smell very mature and sort of swampy or pondy if you will. They are also bright green and look very fresh and fun.

Brewed this takes on a wonderful yellow colour which still gives off a strong and potent swamp/pond fragrance.
The flavour is also the same as the smell, I know I have said swampy a lot so far but it truly is. It’s green, grassy, strong, extremely floral in taste and also has a thick natural sweetness.

I know that what I have described of this may not sound like a nice cup of tea but it is actually rather pleasant. It has character and uniqueness. The more I drink the more I can imagine being in a large meadow and having the ability to taste everything that I could smell there.
I might even be so bold as to announce this sort of tea the green equivalent to black tea’s Lapsang Souchong purely for their uniqueness and interesting aroma’s. It’s also going to be something that you either love or hate.

Great for special occasions and to feel uplifted by something completely different. I must admit that the taste has to grow on you but once it does it makes you smile. :)

I’m still getting the taste of this tea and liking it more and more but I’m afraid that by the time I start to full on love it I will be out. :/

Anyone tried this one with milk?

Giving this one another go but trying it with milk and sweetener this time around.

It’s much nicer this time with much added creaminess with the milk and dispelling the bitterness with the sweetener. Now this is something I am enjoying and feel that I can finish off the rest of the pouch quite happily.