Imperial Tea Garden

Loose
Appearance: fuzzy bicolored pearl curls
Aroma when Dry: sweet, bright, light floral
After water is first poured: floral honeysuckle, cherry blossom notes
At end of first steep: floral, fruity, cantaloupe notes surface
Tea liquor:
At end of first steep: clear
Staple? likely
Preferred time of day: any
Taste:
At first ?: light fruity, mineral notes, honeysuckle, berry, melon notes high on the palate
As it cools?: tea gets bodied, brothy, sweeter, salt close
Additives used (milk, honey, sugar etc)? No
Lingers? Only slightly, mineral notes

Second Steep (4min):
At first: light mineral melony notes
As it cools: bodied mineral broth

Third Steep (5min):
faintly sweet mineral broth

I feel like I am doing something wrong with this tea.

I used 8 pearls in an 8 oz. cup. The pearls appeared to have a hard time unfurling. Even after leaving them in the cup for 10 minutes only one leaf completely unfurled, and the others only partially. The liquor is almost clear, slightly straw colour. The colour becomes a bit darker the longer you steep it, but still remains clear. The taste was very mild and mellow, not so much vegetal or grassy, but a bit more like wheat or grain, slightly sweet.
I generally don’t like to steep for to long, but this is a tea that I can leave the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup for as long as I’m drinking it, and it doesn’t adversely affect the taste.
I am going to play around a bit with water temp and steeping time to see what happens.

I absolutely love this tea. Very grassy and aromatic. Best green tea I have tried. It is not from Impreial Tea Company, though I’d like to try it for myself. i had a cup of Serene Teaz’s “imperial Dragonwell” and it was phenomenal. It was from my brother’s tea stash. I needed to comment on this.

Having a cuppa this evening … a nice white tea … sweet, mild, smooth. Fruit notes. Crisp, airy notes mingling with a hay-like note. Pleasant, just what I needed this evening.

I bought this thinking I would like it. BLEH, I am just not a fan of green tea. Gave it away. This was not my first attempt at trying to like green tea, but it was the last.

so i made a cup of tea with the 7 pearls and it was VERY nice i really enjoyed the subtle Sweetness and was so wonderful at work to calm me :)

A beautiful silver from LiberTEAS. This white has more flavor than most I have tasted. Sweet and smooth.

This is a completely different tea HOT than ICED. It’s stronger iced but still a flatter black tea all-around. There is a roated-crusty-malt to it when hot. It’s a tad fruity…but fruitier when iced/cold brewed.

Because I generally like my teas BOLD and RICH I do like this one better hot even tho it’s supposed to be a COLD/ICED Tea.

I cold brewed this one in my Steep & Go! This morning and 10 mins wasn’t long enough. At 30 mins – it was still weak. About 3 hours did it some justice. It’s still a mellower black but it’s slightly malty and slightly fruity and floral…more fruity than floral.

Even tho this is an iced tea I am going to try it HOT once before sending the rest to my Sororitea Sister Liberteas!

This is a delightful white tea. The mouthfeel is soft and velvet-y, and the flavor is remarkably complex. Delicate, yes, but, so many nuanced layers of flavor. In the description, notes of honey, nuts and vanilla are suggested, and I taste those, I also taste hints of freshly cut hay … like the air that surrounds you when you’re in a hayfield that’s just been cut. You can taste the hay in the air, and I taste mild hints of that with this tea … off in the distance. The sweetness of the nuts and vanilla and honey in the forefront, while the distance has vegetative hints, crisp air, and hay. This is very good, one of those white teas that I could drink daily and not tire of it.

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This is a really good Kukicha, I love the level of roasted flavor to this – so delicious and toasty. Nutty and sweet.

Thank you, TeaEqualsBliss for sending some of this Kukicha my way!

Backlogging 2 cups from yesterday. I have had good luck with many teas from Kenya and hope to try many more! This is great! The leaves remind me of albino pine needles! :)

The flavor is wonderful especially for a white. It’s delicate but certainly NOT lacking character and flavor! I picked up on natural vanilla and sweet notes, of course what you would expect in a white tea – that flavor as well – but it was almost creamy, and there was a hint of pine or even sage of some sort…really nice!

I am quite enjoying this Oolong. It is sweet, with a lovely plum-peach kind of flavor that almost tastes as if it has been macerated in brandy or wine. It’s really tasty. There is also a nice malty tone to it and an earthiness that I did not expect. Rich and yet subtle, too. Very pleasant and surprising Oolong.

This is very nice! It’s crisp! It’s wheat-like…I taste actually taste a wheat-type flavor! It starts off sweet and turn a little drier towards the end of the sip! This is a neat tasting tea and I LOVE the little swirl-E Leaves and the name of this tea is FAB, too!

absolutely lovely!

The flavor is crisp and clean, with an astringency that develops. The first couple of sips were so smooth and sweet and then the astringency kicks in right when you need it, to cleanse the palate so that the sweetness does not become overwhelming. I taste notes of hay and sweet grass, reminding me a bit of the air in the small town where I grew up on the days of the hay harvest and bailing.

A very pleasant cuppa.

Looking at the leaves and the color of the liquor, my first thought was that this looks more like a white tea than a green tea. (And the name certainly helped inspire that thought too). The flavor is stronger than a typical white though, so, ok, I believe you, it’s a green tea.

The description suggests a strong astringency, but I’m not getting that. I do get some astringency, perhaps it’s how I steep it? I don’t know. This is a very pleasantly sweet tea, with a flavor reminiscent to honey. Lovely floral notes in the background. As I continue to sip, the astringency builds, it is sort of a tangy/tingly kind of astringency that sort of tickles the tongue.

A lovely green.

An excellent green tea.

Gentle, Smooth, Slightly Sweet, Delicate, Delightful! Just a few words to describe this one! I really like the flavor! YUM!

starts out sweet and makes your mouth water and as it cools it gets a little grassier. Still a winner tho! Very delicate and “frosted” looking! Nice green!

This is absolutely WONDERFUL! It’s very malty for an oolong and gently toasted. I really like this! At the beginning of the sip it sort of tastes like a medium strength black tea and then pushes over to a hearty oolong but it’s more malty than most if not all of the oolongs I have tried so far and it’s really yummy! Two thumbs up! Yes…I will have another cup! This is FAB!