362 Tasting Notes

85

This has serious favorite potential (Obrigada P!). It has a middle weight body (Ok, light by british standards, deep by French standards maybe), marvelously fragrant, and tannins are just right for me.

any theories on what the secret blend is? I would swear there is some citrus on it, though it does not sound at all like some secret tibetan ingredient.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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69

I believe this is the tea I have been sold as “Delícia de Champagne”, and if so, it´s marvelous. Long, whole sencha with champagne flavour and a strawberry decoration. Lovely lovely.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 30 sec

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drank Delícia de Champagne. by Unknown
362 tasting notes

A chance buy, and I am really looking for the name of the company which blended this, because it was a tremendous hit with me and some friends. The sencha is there and delicate, the champagne flavour ( it must be artificial but it works) and strawberries just make it so much more lively. A lovely lovely special tea.

Very large whole leaves, expands a lot.

On searching for the blender:
it might be https://www.dethlefsen-balk.de/ENU/27659/22443_flavored%20Sencha%20tea.html?FromNo=10550 , this one.

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

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drank Four Red Fruits by Kusmi Tea
362 tasting notes

I just do not *get*Kusmi. I love the tins. I love the descriptions of tea. I am often tempted to take the plunge and buy of the better reviewed teas. People with taste, far better palates than me, love these.

But whenever I try it it´s just so meh to my particular palate. This one was correctly brewed, no tap water taste discernible, and the tea shop seemed generous in their dosage. Nice, but I have had so many better flavoured teas and sold far cheaper and with less fanfare that I can not help comparing.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 45 sec
Ricky

Kusmi seems more subtle with it’s flavors compared to other brands. Do you like plain teas or flavored teas more?

cteresa

Flavoured usually, though not if too artificial (apparently I sometimes like artificial flavouring) or too strong.

I don´t like too strong, too tanninic teas. I have tried a few Kusmi flavoured teas and so far they have all been nice, or nice-ish, but they always left me a bit disappointed. I do not think it is the intensity of the flavour, but the balance of blended flavours and the tea underneath. I will keep trying cups here and there and not buy any tin unless I try it first and love it.
Angrboda

I think it sounds like it’s the base tea that just doesn’t appeal to you. I’ve found that this is something that can’t really be rescued with flavouring, the result will still be boring.

cteresa

That is almost surely it Angrboda. The flavouring has sort of work the base flavour, and if the base flavour is not to your taste, no rescuing.

Though maybe my expectations might be off as well – I kept comparing (unfavourably) Anastasia with my beloved Lady Grey, and that is surely not what is intended.

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78

I managed to restock this and I am so happy! The taste is slightly different than what I remembered back when it was called Bourbon Vanilla, but the packaging is also different ( 50 teabags in that british no-string format rather than 20 envelopes teabags) but let´s give a discount to differences in memory, packaging and tea being a natural product which might have some variations in taste.

This is a camouflaged flavoured tea. The vanilla is really imperceptible, more noticeable in smell than in taste. But it does give a resonance to the tea taste, adds a sort of sweetness to it. I do love this tea, even if I do not usually like vanilla teas. Though if you want a very intense vanilla (or vanillin, most probably) tea, this is not it. The vanilla is hiding pretty subtly!

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 15 sec
Cissa

Obrigada por me teres “apresentado” este chá! Hoje lá se foi a ultima saqueta! ;)

cteresa

de nada! espaço bio tem, de resto sim é raro, mas é o meu chá preto de eleição.

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69

Moderately expensive (4 euros for 15 teabags), not quite as expensive as some teas, but a bit more expensive than regular stuff. But oh so nice. Tea-bags are individually packaged in foil envelopes, which I think helps to keep the flavour fresh. I do think this tea bags are filled a smidgeon less than the british norm, I just brew a slightly smaller cup.

A very very good simple Ceylon tea but then I think Ceylon might just be my favorite tea origin for breakfast blends. I am probably not the only one because this seems to be the bestseller at the store I bought it.

Brews very red, and full bodied but in a delicate way.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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33

Very light and delicate. Slightly malty. But the taste seems a bit “green” to me. Even when made with mineral water it tastes slightly off to me.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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65

The most like-normal decaff tea I have tried. Pretty strong taste but from experience, no jitters.

Preparation
Boiling

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drank Anastasia by Kusmi Tea
362 tasting notes

This was a bit of a letdown. Supposedly a lady grey type, except IMO good old cheap lady grey from a teabag is much better – a more interesting balanced flavour (less bergamot I think) and more intense.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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drank Oriental Mist by Rituals
362 tasting notes

A sort of subtle everything-but-the-kitchen sink. I expected some sort of delicate Lapsang Souchong, but in reality composition is:
China Black Tea, Bergamot, Darjeeling, Jasmine Flowers
all slightly smoked. It is all quite delicate and even nice, but after a number of cups, the combination still does not quite convince my palate.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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Inconstant tea drinker – I mostly drink tea when not too hot. I hang around steepster much more frequently in (northern hemisphere) cold season. Experimenting with cold steeping, for summer.

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I like all sorts of tea, flavoured and unflavoured, though I am picky.

I am one of those people who actually loves Lapsang Souchong. I am not crazy about Earl Grey, in general. I don´t quite get Darjeeling teas, but I am exploring.

I like rooibos, though not all bases. I loathe hibiscus. I do not like fennel/liquorice/anise in blends or teas with chicory. I am picky about what I consider true cinnamon.

As you can probably tell from my cupboard, the brands I find more interesting right now are Mariage Fréres and Thé-o-Dor.

I am always willing to try anything new. I am now particularly interested in single origins.

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