726 Tasting Notes
I great big ol thank you to MissB for sending this tea my way!
I believe I had the same tea, but summer harvest, a couple weeks or months ago.
I don’t think my palette is.. advanced enough to know the difference between summer and autumn harvest though
But this tea is nice! It’s very similar to the other one. Very vegetal and very green. I don’t think I’ve had that many straight green teas before, and they’re okay. It’s definitely going to get some getting used to. Tastes like liquified sweet spinach ahha but it’s totally fine since that’s how it’s supposed to taste like! Gotta work my tastebuds up to this kind of very green tea :)
Preparation
I’ve seen so many good stuff about this tea on my dash (if that’s what it’s called? Dash or feed or… I don’t even know) and it got me excited to try this tea! It’s… okay. It had a really nice dry leaf smell, but its brightness got a bit.. murky and dull in a way? I like how there’s little bunny grahams in here hehe, so that’s probably what gave this tea a bit of umph, but not enough to go head over heels for.
It’s good, but not great. Thanks NayLynn for the chance to try it, and giving me enough for a few cups, but I don’t think this is a tea I’ll go out and purchase.
Mmmm thank you tons, Laurent from Nina’s for sending me a sample of this tea!
It’s not as green as the photo suggests, but it does give off a nice and pleasant peach aroma. Reminds me a bit of the peach rings that I used to love so much :)
Ooh. I think my water was a smidge too hot and it’s right on the edge of being bitter, but it’s really nice! I makes a nice, straight cup :) The peach is definitely there, and it’s not as sugary as the peach rings, but still has the nice bright summer fruit flavour :)
I really like this tea! Definitely a nice oolong with a nice fruity flavour. Peach is definitely present, and I’m also getting bits of apricot which is nice
((this is also a sipdown so hooray for drinking all the tea!!))
Flavors: Apricot, Peach
Preparation
PEACH RINGS! Ugh, brings back memories. I used to eat those all of the time. Peach is definitely a lovely summer tea flavor!
This is my second peach ring tea and I LOVE it! I love summer cuz now I can drink fruity teas all day long :)
I really want to try this iced so looks like once I get my cupboard down to a manageable number, I’ll be buying more of this!
Smelled the sampaguita as I was walking out of my aunt’s house, driving back to school, and figured I needed a jasmine tea the second I arrived at my apartment!
I love love LOVE the Butterfly Jasmine from DAVIDs.
This one is good! Not as great as the Butterfly, but still oh so very nice and smooth. The perfume isn’t super strong and the tea didn’t get bitter, unlike their Silk Dragon Jasmine and Angel of Decadence from Beastly Beverages.
The Butterfly Jasmine still wins for best jasmine tea ever, but this one and Harney’s jasmine pearls go hand in hand :)
I honestly don’t know if the shape of the leaves so anything to its taste? But like the loose leaf jasmines take on more of a bitter and stronger taste, while the rolled pearls and butterflies are a bit lighter, which I love a whole lot more.
Preparation
My tea ban on weekends is just.. dude I want tea now uggh.
But I’ve decided to just go ahead and review my teaware!
So I picked these up a couple months ago, for mother since she hates brewing loose leaf at work because it’s just too much of a hassle for her. She works as a nurse at a pediatrics office so a legit pot and kettle is definitely a bit overkill. I had some of the finum tea bags, but she hates how those don’t stay closed. Figured these would be perfect!
So I bought these for her, grabbed about 25 for myself, and I love them so much! I don’t think they really leave a lot of room for the tea to expand, so I usually use them with my herbal/rooibos teas. Which is pretty much perfect cuz I use these on my lazy days for easy clean-up and lazy-me usually comes out in the last hours of the day.
Easy sachets with teas that don’t expand that are caffeine-free. Oh it’s perfect.
Pretty much, I love these and they’re great and I love having them around :)
I love these bags, but switched to cheaper ones I can buy locally instead (but no drawstring!). I use them for the exact same reason, ease of use at work.
Yeah, I had ones like these without the drawstring, but the drawstring is what my mom loves so that’s why I got these for her :)
She uses this every day because of work, but for me, I spend a lot of time at home studying so I don’t necessarily need these, but they’re definitely nice to have!
Bought this tea on monday at Lupicia because it smelled SO GOOD from the tin!
It reminded me of Haw Flakes, these little candies I’d always eat as a child! I just asked my roommate if she knew what it was, but it was a typical ‘asian’ candy that you get to the asian market soooo yeah. She only knows pocky and yanyan ahah BUT HAW FLAKES THOUGH.
But yeah. This tea.
Dude.
It’s freakin TERRIBLE hot! Like it was just so tart and sour and I tried adding agave and.. no. It was just too much for my mouth.
But then I decided to pour it over ice and HUZZAH! This tea is really good iced. I can definitely taste the black tea base of the assam and darjeeling, but the hibiscus is there as an afterthought, so it’s not too overbearing on the tartness, how it was when it was hot. I may have overdone it on the agave though, so I’ll just remember that for next time :)
Preparation
I made a pitcher of this two nights ago, and last night I decided to pour it into our ice cube tray! and I still had plenty of this tea in regular liquid form in the fridge :)
So now I’m stressing over my group presentation, but at least I have a nice refreshing glass of this tea with tea ice cubes so it wouldn’t get watered down :)
Ooh, tea ice cubes are a good idea! Especially since I’ve been doing so much cold brewing lately.
Also, good luck on your presentation!
Don’t stress – you’ll do great.
Dude, later, I wanna make tea cubes and drop them into different tea! Like blending.. but not.
And I was stressing because my group member decided to let us know that she won’t make it to the presentation and she didn’t even do her part. We managed to throw her part together and memorize it in less than an hour. That was probably the worst presentation that I’ve ever given, but under the circumstances, I think my group and I did *okay?
Probably my fave green of all
I love greens! It took some time, but they’re the teas that got me into teas to start with. But I know what you mean, I feel this way about blacks. I taste a straight black and mostly just taste bitter earthyness, like brewed dirt!