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Nice concept for a bagged green tea. When you open the jar you will find matcha powder dusted over all the tea bags, which is a pleasant experience and smells great. The matcha tastes great too.
However the leaves are cut and thus the strength is rather weak. This is a bit of disappointment and makes the taste experience underwhelming. I find myself wanting a stronger green.
Steep it for at least three minutes for a stronger flavor.

The flavor is mild, similar to most white teas that I’ve tasted. As it cools a bit though, the peach flavor comes through very nicely with no over-steeped sensation. It smells great, and I like the blend of flavors very much, as I can imagine peach, pineapple, and floral notes. It just takes a while to get there; for the first few minutes it tastes like hot water.

Tastes great. Sometimes straight mint teas are too strong for my liking, but Refresh has a very nice balance. I can’t pick out the tarragon, but that’s probably what mitigates the normally overpowering mint presence.

Wow. Lapsang is my new love.
Peet’s offering doesn’t seem as strong as Xanadu’s, but it offers more in complexity. It’s toastier, with more presence of wood and carbon rather than smoke. If I must compare the two brands… Xanadu’s should be drunk by those with giant mustaches, and Peet’s should be enjoyed by those with neatly trimmed beards.
With so many interesting aromatic elements, it’s equally enjoyable to smell as it is to drink. Let me rephrase that… it’s wonderful to smell!!

Update: tastes better at around 2.5 minutes rather than my usual 3.5 for black teas. Not as papery (what I refer to as carbon).

Consistent with the Dilmah name, this tea is comprised of delicious, high quality ceylon tea leaves. The cardamom flavor is strong, but not overwhelming. Easy to drink, with no tannic aftertaste.
Highly recommended, especially if you like pure spice flavors.

I’m convinced that Celestial Seasonings does great blends :)
Although this tea tastes more like caramel than chai, it’s really good! It’s like drinking dessert with a little spice kick. Smells and tastes great.
Definitely gets my recommendation.

This tea is good. Even when drunk black, it has no bitterness and few tannins! Not as bright as Lipton but I detect maple and a papery, slightly earthy flavor… interesting. Easy to drink until the last drop. But it’s also great with milk and sugar.
This box of tea was given to my wife as a very nice gift from a Sri Lankan student. I don’t know where to find it again.

It’s a staple in my tea cupboard… but I can’t say that I enjoy it black. It’s bitter, tannic, and incredibly strong.
But it’s great with milk and sugar. It’s English Breakfast’s stronger, meaner brother. For when you feel like punching Lipton in the arm.

Eck.
As soon as the tea started steeping, I thought I smelled an old trash can. It was drinkable at first, but a few minutes into it, my wife and I realized that it was bad.
The “tea for sweethearts” idea was cute, but it didn’t work. Someone else commented that a black tea base rather than rooibos would have been more successful, and I agree.
I would have a difficult time choosing between drinking this tea again and licking a dog’s butt. Unfortunately, the cup of tea doesn’t afford the benefit of a cute dog face at the other end.

Not a bad green tea!
Bright, tasty, and mild. A very drinkable choice for those who don’t always like the mowed-grass or fish food tastes in a lot of other green teas.

Dilmah is delicious!
Clean and well-balanced, this premium black tea is very easy to drink. It tastes great all the way through the cup, with the just the right amount of strength and tannin.
After tasting it plain, I like to add a little milk and sugar to my black tea… just a pinch of sugar went a long way to really brighten this one up.
If I had an everyday black tea, this one would be my top choice.

AWESOME.
The pineapple/guava combo is a winner. Though I can’t really distinguish much of the guava, the pineapple really comes through. It’s sweet, but not too sweet. The pineapple tastes just like a traditional pineapple-jelly Korean Moon Cake.
The fragrance is awesome, and gets stronger over time. The taste is slightly weaker than the aroma, as I taste it more in the nose than the tongue. But nonetheless, it’s sufficiently strong for a white tea.
No tannin taste after the cup, just sweet goodness.

I was rather disappointed with this tea.
The jasmine flavor is difficult to detect when hot, but it gets better as the tea cools. Otherwise, it simply tastes like hot water.
However, the high quality of tea leaves does come through, as well as yield a pleasant jasmine flavor, weak as it is. Yet most drinkers wouldn’t normally look for a high-grade leaf taste, but rather overall presence. Because Republic of Tea suggests steeping for only 30-60 seconds, the flavor ends up rather weak and seemingly under-steeped.
If you’re really looking for SUBTLE flavor, this might do the job. The mouthfeel and lingering flavor afterward is nice, with no sensation of tannin.

The bergamot is stronger in this one than other Earl Greys. It’s definitely more interesting than other Greys due to the additional flavors coming through, like peach. The black tea flavors aren’t as prominent, due to the strength of the floral bouquet. Also, most of the tannins at the end of cup were masked by the bright flavors.
Overall, a pretty darn good Grey, especially for those that are looking for more blooming flavor in their tea.
I steeped this one for about 2.5 minutes to avoid potential bitterness, and it seemed to work. Even as a write this note, well after I’ve finished my cup, I taste only bergamot, with nothing to complain about.

Delicious!
White teas seem a bit weak for my taste, but the orange top note on this one is wonderful.
My favorite white tea, hands down, and one of my favorites overall.
Enjoy this in a mug without handles, in both hands, directly under your nose, so you can enjoy the aroma until every drop is gone.

AMAZING! This tea has attitude!
Wow. I have to say, it has a super strong aroma, but the taste is NOT overpowering as one might expect. Rather, it’s perfectly bodied. Let it rest on the tongue and swallow slowly to enjoy it’s lingering flavor.
If you haven’t tried Lapsang Souchong, go to the local tea shop today and do so. This is my first ever tasting of this variety. I’ve smelled it before in loose leaf jars, but the barbeque aroma never appealed to me. Until today.
I have a feeling that this tea will replace a lot of my coffee drinking. Like coffee, it’s full, incredibly strong, and leaves you tasting it later, long after you’ve finished the cup. But it’s wonderfully spicy, smoky, and satisfying.

I wasn’t really fond of blends when Starbucks started carrying Tazo. But this morning my wife and I shared a cup of AWAKE at a hotel in Pismo, and it’s pretty good! It’s a nice blend of black teas with an earthy-fruity bouquet. I detect oil of bergamot. But it gets bitter, so lower temps should work better.