PekoeTea

I am definitely getting a melon/cucumber flavor as well as a sweet grass taste. White teas are never my favorite and I usually group them in “drink when desperate” category. That being said it isn’t terrible and it is nice and relaxing. So many white teas are infused or stuffed or packed full of other fruit flavors that you forget what pure white tea tastes like, which isn’t much. After drinking a whole cup it does remind me of a bath and body works lotion and sadly is just as appetizing, no fault of the tea or the company just my own bias against white teas.

So far, to me, this doesn’t have a lot of flavor. I’ll let it cool more and see if anything comes out. Right now it just tastes generic-white to me, nothing special or distinct.

As it cools it doesn’t get much more depth to it. Maybe a very, very, barely there hint of melon.

It’s not bad and I’ll finish the pot, but I’d not buy it.

Backlogging from yesterday since the site was buggered, good to see it’s back up and running well.

It looks like any other Silver Needle tea, long fuzzy buds. These ones turn green the instant you pour hot water on them. Dry you get the slightly sweet hay smell, wet the buds have an additional cucumber note to them.

Taste is sweet hay with cucumber and juicy melon. The juicy melon is more of a texture than a taste and lasts into the aftertaste with a hint of mint feeling. I brewed it up gaiwan style first and the hay notes were very prominent. Then I brewed up more traditional style and I get a much better taste and blend of the notes. I find it so fascinating the difference in taste of the same tea depending on how it’s brewed.

This Silver Needle is really quite lovely. One of the finest I think I’ve yet to encounter. Delicate, yes, but also intensely flavored … surprisingly so. Notes of cucumber and hay, as well as a very subtle young asparagus stalk that has been steamed and lightly buttered. As I continue to sip, a mineral-like taste seems to come into play. There are some delightful fruit notes to this tea as well, and I like the way they transition – starting out with a delicate apple-pear kind of flavor, and as I continue to sip, the flavor becomes more of a honeydew melon. It has a refreshing quality to it, and is one of the most complex silver needle teas I’ve yet to taste.

One can tell that orange essence oil is used to flavour this oolong in that a thick oily taste is all I can detect!

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Very good. It’s gentle, brews a pale yellowish liquor. Very clean, buttery, a bit of cucumber and some citrus.

For an Assam, this tea is incredibly light and fragrant. It has a warm, malty, almost caramelly flavour to it and very little tannin, making it ideal to drink without milk.

Fruity, soft and fresh. Definite notes of melon and something like pear. Plus you can see all the little downy bits suspended in the water, it’s really fun.

A lovely tea, pale, flavorful, excellent. Has hints of what they call melon, but I’d call cucumber, slightly tangy, and an overall really excellent tea enjoyed by my whole family.

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A lovely white tea with a wonderful earthy aroma, sweet aftertaste and a hint of astringency.

i usually steep for ~6mins with tons of Sugar to add to teh sweetness of the tea already. W/o the sugar you can already taste the cinnamon. it keeps me pretty relaxed throughout the day. (i usually have my tea around 12:30-1pm)

Silver Needle – one of the best teas you can buy :)

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I added a full cube of brown sugar, much more tasty :)

Not quite what I was expecting… couldn’t get over the ‘plant-like’ taste. I realise it is a herbal infusion not a tea as such but it might take some getting used to if I’m going to finish the bag. Perhaps I’ll blend it with some green tea.

A fruity alternative to regular Oolong. Great in the morning.

Much better with boiling water and approx. 6 min brewing time!

I brewed it for 5 mins as instructed but the water wasn’t quite boiling. A little weak but I’ll brew another with hotter water to see if I can get a stronger taste. Can’t fault the spices though!