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I like this tea..not too strong, but it does have a natural banana flavor. It’s subtle, but all the flavors come out. My impression would be any more banana flavor and it might taste too unnatural…and at what point do you want the flavor or the tea? Needs a little sweetener, though to bring out the banana flavor.
I should try it cold

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drank Jasmine Oolong by EnjoyingTea.com
1137 tasting notes

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Thank you Teaequalsbliss for sending the tea to me awhile back. This is fresh light with abit of floral and white tea. When you look at the leaves yu can see the silver white on and it and it smells like white tea. I think this is a really good white tea. Thank you.

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OK… I’m being EXTREMELY courageous here (yeah, I keep telling myself that whenever I start thinking that I’m about to drink a Lapsang Souchong tea)

I gave it a rinse (awakening of the leaves) with boiling water for about 10 seconds before I brewed it, I had hoped this would take away some of the smokiness that I find off-putting.

You may be asking why would I brew a tea that I know I won’t like? But here’s the thing, I didn’t like it years ago, around the same time I had convinced myself that I didn’t like Dragon Well tea and a few other things… and since that time my tastes have changed, and how do I know that I still dislike Lapsang Souchong? I may be missing out on something just because I thought I didn’t like it.

So when Enjoying Tea sent me this sample… I figured it was an opportunity for me to try it without having to actually go out and purchase it.

So… after that extraordinarily long introduction… here goes!

The rinse definitely helped. It’s still very smoky (of course) in aroma and taste.

There is a pleasant sweetness to it too… caramel-y. That is something that I don’t think I’ve ever really recognized about a Lapsang Souchong because I couldn’t ever get myself past the smoky part.

It wasn’t a terrible tea experience, but I don’t think that I’ll be buying any Lapsang Souchong any time soon either. I’m not going to rate it numerically, because I feel that would be unfair, because what I really dislike about Lapsang Souchong is that pine-y smoke flavor, and it is a characteristic that is Lapsang Souchong. It is what it is.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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I usually don’t drink Rose tea, and I don’t like it. Surprisingly I managed to enjoy this… which is not necessarily an endorsement for rose tea lovers!

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This Pu-erh makes a full-bodied red-brown liquor with an aroma like garden soil. The flavor is rich and almost sweet. There’s a slight sour note which tells me that yes, it was aged and fermented in a solid cake. I suppose that both the oddness and the complexity of flavor is largely derived from this type of aging, unique to pu-erh teas. For the 2nd steep I added some chrysanthemum buds, and a tiny floral note chimed in from those. The aged pu-erh earthiness continues to follow through to the finish. I’m a novice when it comes to pu-erh, so the assertive ‘ripeness’ of this tea continues to startle me a bit, and I can’t say yet whether I like it.

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I don’t normally enjoy jasmine teas… but this seems to be hitting the spot right now. It’s the only kind of tea I have at work, so it’ll have to do. I do like the taste much better than the smell. Way too floral, which is a turn off for me.

Blair

Not a fan of Jamines in general. Way too floral for me as well.

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This tea is beautiful. It’s so soft, seriously. These little hand rolled balls of tea feel like clouds. I rinsed the balls before steeping, letting the Jasmine fragrance fill my nose. I steep this for about a minute. The smell is very very strong. But suprisingly the taste isn’t as strong as the smell. It’s still Jasmine-y but the mild taste of green tea seeps through. I wouldn’t buy this tea to drink on a regular basis. It’s alright. I am curious to try more varieties of this tea tho. Just the pure artistry has my interest.

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drank Chun Mee by EnjoyingTea.com
58 tasting notes

This tea is very yellow. It doesn’t yield the caffeine levels I’m yearning for this morning, as I saw The Decemberis last night and now it’s work time. Needless to say it’s been a long morning with 4 infusions of this tea for about 20-25 seconds long and it’s still going. This tea reminds me of Oolong. It’s toasty tasting. Nothing to rave about, it’s what I had in my bag today. I’m longing for a really strong cup of tea right now, but this’ll do for now.

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Kinda tastes like smoking a cigarette. Not exactly what I look for in a tea, but I kept with it because I needed to wake up. High caffeine levels for a green tea.

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Very mild. I brewed this round for about a minute. I think next steep will be a couple minutes. Nice roasted flavors and rice aromas.

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I enjoy the aroma more than the taste on this one. Pretty golden color. Steeped for 40 seconds just below boiling.

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smells like red hots, but thankfully doesn’t taste that strong.

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drank Earl Grey by EnjoyingTea.com
215 tasting notes

Glass infuser in mug, boiling water, 6 min. More bitter and astringent than I like, but this could be due to too long a steep or too much tea, so will try again. I drink earl greys more for the scent, anyway, but it needs to make a good drink, as well.

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It’s okay. It has a bit more astringency than I would like, and I would have enjoyed more raspberry flavor. I won’t be buying any of it, but it’s drinkable.

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83

Delightful. This has all the good things I like about Earl Grey in a lighter form. I love this.

Preparation
3 min, 0 sec

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This oolong teabag was sent to me by Azzrian… but I’m 95% certain it’s not a green oolong. It steeped up pretty dark, and smells more like genmaicha, but could also be a darker oolong.

Oh dear. I thought 3 minutes would be appropriate but I think it’s oversteeped :( I suppose it should have occurred to me that it’s a teabag, and therefore will infuse stronger/more quickly! Blah. I think I have another one of these left, so will have to try again later. The flavour (minus the astringency/bitterness) isn’t bad though; kind of sweet/nutty/toasty.

And thus concludes Round 1 of plowing through all the tea samples I have left to try! A good number of hits, and the misses are because that’s all I had left to try! :)

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec
CHAroma

You certainly did plow through a great number of teas! It’s been hard trying to keep up with all the tasting notes! ;)

Azzrian

Hummm I have three kinds of bags from them – one is Jasmine Green, one just says Oolong, the other is a pu-erh. All bagged. Got them free with other orders. I bet it isn’t green oolong.
I don’t like that their bags do not have the names of the tea on them as they can get mixed up at times. If I wrote GREEN oolong on your baggie I put them in then I was wrong to do that. :)

Kittenna

CHAroma – I went through my dashboard at one point last night, and it was practically a one-woman show! Hahahaha, whoops :D

Azzrian – you just told me it was an oolong, and I looked in your cupboard to see which one it was, and you had this one reviewed. It definitely was more along the lines of a roasted oolong though, but I had no idea which one!

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