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This tea is just great.. It surely isn’t for everyday drinking and it get’s overdrink very easily. It has nice candyfloss taste.

Good tea for evening drinking before going to bed. Very nice smell. It’s easy to oversteep, about 1 minute for the first steep is just enough.
Thanks to jasmine taste it’s also suitable for people that doesn’t drink normal tea. I had a date with one girl before a few years, I have invited her into a teahouse and chosen very good Darjeeling tea.. unfortunately I have never dated that girl again – next time I would choose Jasmine tea.. :-)

This tea is wonderful on a cold night. It is creamy and refreshing.

An Autumn 2013 Harvest. Absolutely amazing. The aroma reminded me so much of plumeria and melon. The taste was so buttery and floral. A true treat.

So yesterday I was at a cafe and ordered some rose green tea, thinking that it would be the perfect choice for Valentine’s Day. There were tea leaves scooped into some sort of disposable t-sac-like pouch and dumped into some hot water. It smelled deliciously rosy, but tasted like rose-flavored soap. Oh, well, at least it kept my hands warm for a bit. I have yet to find a convenient cafe to go to that actually cares about their tea a little more than just offering it on the menu as an alternative to coffee.

So my mom got me this gift set for my birthday, right, and it included a cute little glass tea pot, a glass infuser, two double wall teacups, and a bag of blooming teas. This was an incredibly sweet gesture. We live in different states and don’t communicate very often. The fact that she not only picked up on and remembered that I have a liking *cough obsession *cough with tea, but that she also went out of her way to do a whole gift set says a lot.
It’s been a couple months, and while I’ve wanted to try out the set I really didn’t want to test that tea O.o
She asked me today if I had tried it yet (and incidentally I was actually thinking about testing it out) and to send her a pic of the bloomed tea. The “tea making experience” is a lot of fun with this, and I would love to do this for a few friends- HOWEVER- not with this tea. Unless of course, you like tea that tastes like you accidentally steeped your paper napkin instead of your tea. blargh.

Bottom line? I love my little tea pot and will use it for other blooming teas once I muster up the courage to try some.

Smoke, fresh upturned soil, thick, ancient trees, winter, leaves – the notes in this tea are absolutely everything I love about tea. What an amazing thing.

The highly amusing IM conversation between a friend and I who bought the same tea:
me: WOW. this is slightly smoky. seems like sweet roasted bark
friend: I KNOWWWW
me: so mellow and sweet
friend: IT’S AMAZINGGGG, ISN’T IT?
me: wow
friend: honestly..it’s one of my favorite teas ever
me: I’m amazed by this. it’s a taste that I have never had before. wow. this strange sweetness. like… the sweetness of pure nature. it evokes such a clear image of a forest with crackling sounds
friend: the way i was describing it to my friends is that it tastes like it’s roasted or kettle-cooked. it’s like they found a way to make “puer kettle chips” and then turned that into a tea. OMG YES. I CAN’T STOP TYPING IN CAPS
me: YEAH. YEAHHHHH. kettle cooked

Here’s Hoping Tea Box

This tea was such a relief after the Brioche! Dark, wine-like, just slightly fruity-sweet, this tea had a soft mouth-feel. It also had an understated maltiness and a slight astringency in the aftertaste.

At Christmas I usually get a mug from someone. Usually it has some tea in it. Usually it is bad unless it is Twinings. This is not Twinings. A little silver bag with 4 tagless, stringless, teabags inside. The dust did plump kinda well. The cup is cloudy but green. This may contain lemongrass. It is not the fake candy lemon typically in these bags but it just is sub par. I really can’t taste tea. My mom would like it. So another Cheapster Steepster Sunday Sip Down for me and special delivery to mom who thinks Lipton green tea is just fine.

Pure. Light. Vegetal. Creamy mouth-feel. It reminds me so much of Long Jing.. I think this is a perfect green tea for those who want to relax. It’s not as powerful as a good Long Jing, it’s just soothing, mellow, and flavorful. It has a nice length to it, not very long, but still long enough. :)

The leaves:
http://tea-pet.tumblr.com/post/76080441878/beauti-full-leaves-xx

Just so that I can remember… this was a 2012 shou that came in a brick.