TeaGschwendner

Using a gifted sample, the aroma of the dry tea (in bag) is alluring. This scent carries over well once brewed and let steep (2 min). The taste dances on the tongue like a light cake. Cinnamon and Vanilla combine evenly, but don’t completely over power the other notes. An enjoyable seasonal tea.

Mmmmmmm a chocolate tea done RIGHT! Good quality chocolate flavor, I hate artificial chocolate flavor in tea but this one is excellent! The berry is fresh, juicy, and ripe, tart but not too tart, sweet but not too sweet. YUMMY!
Full review on SororiTea Sisters on the 10th!
Love it!
Also thank you to Momo again for this sample as well!

This is currently my favorite chai (and, paradoxically, another one I forgot to leave a note for). It can power through three reinfusions at the least, but I can’t help but wonder why the black tea is so minced up — it’s like the consistency of black pepper.

Anyways, this is a rather forgiving chai that probably won’t knock the socks off too many.

Backlogging so my apologies for the crappy tea notes.

I was not impressed with this tea. It was bland, unexciting and tasted a lot like mildly flavoured water. I’ll try this again especially as I forgot to write down my impressions at the time.

additional notes: A Steepsterer sent me this tea years ago and since my sample STILL tastes good, when TeaGschwendner had a sale the day after I was thinking of this tea, I just had to buy some! If it’s the same, I know the flavor lasts for years, so it’s a good tea to stock up on. Sipping it now, flavor is so full. Rhubarb and cream! One of the best rhubarb teas. Yum. Raising the rating from an 84.

Thank you TeaEqualsBliss for sharing this one! I had a cup of this a couple months ago but I wanted to wait to make tasting notes for some reason. The steep this time was better than the last time! I thought I was making a mistake pouring JUST boiled water, but it was delicious. There is a definite rhubarb flavor (there was at least one chunk of rhubarb in my infuser). I think it depends on how much this blend actually tastes like tart rhubarb depending on if there is actually any rhubarb in the infuser. This time I noticed just a hint of cream where there wasn’t any before. I happen to really like this combination! Rooibos, cream and rhubarb!

The thing about low expectations is that I often end up happy. I’m pretty picky about my strawberry, because it’s so rarely done well. I strongly dislike “berry” flavour: that flavour that is a hodgepodge of berries that can’t be individually identified. I do very much like individual berries, like blueberries, blackberries and strawberries, but if it’s not the berry itself, the flavour better be done well. And, because I haven’t said it enough in this paragraph, berry berry berry.

Right. So. Strawberry. Lovely on its own, if it’s not very tart. Lovely in some candy, if it’s done properly. Kind of icky as a bubblegum flavour. Ice cream? Maybe. See? Picky.

The other thing is about me and fruit teas. The problem is that we don’t really get along very well. It’s not so much that they’re yucky, just that I can’t get over how weird it is to drink hot fruit anything. I always find myself wondering how it’d be iced, and how that’s how I have to try it next time. Until now, anyway.

This is a great blend that’s blended very well. It’s a nice, berrylicious fragrance, but even better is its flavour, which is that of strawberry jam. I do so like my jam. I steeped it first for maybe 7 minutes, I don’t remember exactly. The second time, I lost track of time and steeped it for about 22 minutes. I’ve yet to ruin a rooibos blend by over-steeping it, so I wasn’t really concerned. The only consequence was that the tea got a bit too cool to sip in a leisurely manner, so I gulped it down and almost brushed myself off whilst placing my teacup in the sink, looking for imaginary toast crumbs.

I think if this had had a stronger strawberry presence, it would’ve been too tart for me to enjoy; as it is, I find it really well balanced. This was in the sampler box I bought from LiberTEAS, and I’m so glad to have had the opportunity to try it. It would’ve never occurred to me to buy this and I would have missed out. I can hardly believe that I’ve found a fruity tea I like drinking hot. Bazinga!

Tea amount: 1 generous tsp/~5.25g
Water amount: 6oz/~175mL
Additives: About ½ tsp Demerara sugar for the first steep and nearly a full tsp for the second one. The first cup wasn’t sweet enough and I could just feel that adding a bit more would help bring forth the strawberry. The second steep was pretty weak in spite of the long steep time (meh, it was worth a shot), but I was right about the sugar. Moar strawberryer.

This tea has been in the cupboard for a few months and I finally got around to brewing a cup while riding out the storm in NYC watching weather coverage. What I can say about this tea – It’s not bad.

There is a bit of an odd battle between the fruit component and the herb component which I initially didn’t mind but the more sips I took the less I enjoyed the rivalry. However this is a rare tea in that the green component can be isolated on the pallet from the black, or at least I was able to perceive such. I think this is because, for whatever reason the overall boldness of the tisane components is lower than one would expect (but yet still present enough).

There is a lot going on here, and it’s, well, not bad.

Really fond of this tea for an early afternoon pick-me-up. The orange is a little strong, but the ginger plays well with it.

Additional notes: I’m sipping more of this one thanks to momo’s generosity! thank you so much! I love this one. I love the deep chocolate taste paired with the sweet raspberry! I think it might be my favorite chocolate tea!

thanks Amanda for including this in your sample sale! I really wanted to try this one. Raspberries & chocolate are one of my favorite combinations. My sample looked mostly like black tea.. I didn’t see any chocolate pieces or raspberries, so I figured the flavor was infused in the black tea. But the ingredients list here is listing actual chocolate and raspberry pieces. I love that this is a mixture of black and rooibos teas – I really want to try more black/red blends. Infused, the color is a deep red, almost like it is a rooibos. The fragrance is a lovely chocolate raspberry. I don’t get any tangy raspberries in the flavor, only sweet! I’d say the chocolate flavor is tangier. The chocolate is of a bittersweet or dark variety (my favorite) which REALLY goes well with this base. I’m not sure where the chocolate ends and the black tea begins. It works really well together. There was no astringency at all, unlike the TeaGschwendner Lemon I tried a while ago that was so bitter it was almost impossible to drink as it cooled. This one is nice!

so this is another one from Amanda and the Traveling tea box!
This is QUITE NICE , ive never had amaretto in anything liquor or not but this is Very good.. I cant tells the notes other then Amaretto lol But this is quite a nice 2nd tea of the day!

A neat woody traditional North Taiwanese. It’s very wonderful iced. Probably not as incredible as it’s priced at.

A lovely light oolong with a crisp aftertaste. Probably a bit overpriced.

Huh. Seemingly no aroma or distinct taste. Kind of a cross between a an oolong and an assam. Next time I’ll try doubling the recipe.

Orange Blossom Oolong after lunch? Don’t mind if I do! In fact make this one a heaping tea spoon, I’m in the mood for multiple infusions. Many thanks to Amanda for this. In searching for this is seems this is a very popular combination. I knew peach oolong was, but orange? Who knew? Looking forward to this woodsy base.

So the scent of this actually reminds a bit of rooibos, though I might not being saying that if I hadn’t had a couple earlier today. It’s quite light, I do think it needs a longer steep, but it is otherwise pleasant, I get citrus and pine notes with a bit of pepper and spice toward the bottom of the cup, but I’m looking for leather ;)

Steeped for a minute and we have achieved orange liquor! Much more woody oolong in this yes I am getting the leather, but it’s just not the kind I’m looking for. There is no natural sweetness in this, no, mineral notes, just dry as my other two TeaGschwender oolong have been. Ho hum.

A heck of lot of hazelnut for a tea. It could pass for coffee?

Classified as “aromatic” it does have a lovely scent, and a surprisingly okay taste.

A blander Oolong, with less caffeine.

The best tea that exists. This tea is far more deserving of the term “ancient trees”. It’s like having a picnic of mushrooms on a moss-covered fairy garden oak crevice. Smells like a 1,000 year old Chinese farm and a tastes like a stark fermented tree bark. 10/10!