Thanks to Sil for providing this sample and to those who added this info on steepster so I can add a note. I know TerriHarpLady updated it last so thanks!

The only recognizable (read:English) words on the pack was the address and the name of the company. I even showed it to the people at work who couldn’t tell me a whole lot more, and they majority of them are Chinese. Granted, they are from Hong Kong, not mainland, but still… I thought someone there can decipher.

And omg, is this ever floral. I see the tasters before me described it as mild. It is not mild to me. It is overwhelmingly floral. And I’m pretty sure I burned the leaves because it is bitter. My name should be tea klutz but it was taken. Given no steeping instructions I did my best, 3 minutes in what I thought was 180ish water. I should have treated it more like a green, lowered the temp even more to err on the side of caution. Sil, I think I badly butchered this.

But what I can tell you is that I enjoyed having this exotic morsel, floral bitterness and all. If it was available, I probably wouldn’t buy it though. No longer a fan of floral stuff, I think I od’ed on jasmine a while back.

Sil

Haha I hated this too. I dislike florals but t was part of a pack and random teas from new places are always fun :)

Nxtdoor

Lol. I was trying to cleverly veil the word “hate”. It is not nice to say bad things about samples people send you, is it? Although I remember a certain someone, let’s not name names, who said recently “thanks. This was nasty!” :p

Sil

yep! just ‘cause you don’t like the tea doesn’t mean it’s a reflection on the person who sent it! It just means that it’s not the tea for you…but that’ ok ’cause there are lots out there!

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Sil

Haha I hated this too. I dislike florals but t was part of a pack and random teas from new places are always fun :)

Nxtdoor

Lol. I was trying to cleverly veil the word “hate”. It is not nice to say bad things about samples people send you, is it? Although I remember a certain someone, let’s not name names, who said recently “thanks. This was nasty!” :p

Sil

yep! just ‘cause you don’t like the tea doesn’t mean it’s a reflection on the person who sent it! It just means that it’s not the tea for you…but that’ ok ’cause there are lots out there!

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I started drinking loose leaf tea in the spring of 2013 (why do we feel compelled to mark the date of tea drinking somewhat like addicts counting their sobriety days?)

Never been much into tea before. Growing up in Romania, tea was something mom made for you when you were sick. As an adult, my hot beverage of choice has been coffee, both flavoured and regular. I’ve recently stumbled upon Teavana and DAVIDs TEA and quickly got addicted to the latter. Then came steepster and all else followed.

Formerly a mathematician and insurance adjuster, I gave up the corporate world and am now a professional chef. I drink wine and sometimes cheat on it with tea.

I lean heavily towards flavoured black teas. I’ve started to crave the occasional straight oolong and green but so far unflavoured black teas leave me unimpressed.

I’m learning so I drink them all. Am even introducing myself to pu’erh. So far I can do fine with the sheng cause frankly, they don’t taste like pu’erh to me. The shou is another story.

Note*: The virtual cupboard does NOT contain any of the samples I hold since most of them are one-cup quantity.

Note**: My partner, our home improvements, gadgets, mortgage, travel, wine and food have budget priority over tea.

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