Another delicious sample from the Spring green offerings – thank you, Teavivre! The leaves here are very interesting – I’ve never seen anything like them before. They are like dark green twisted needles of grass. They have a very strong and sweet scent of cream and corn. I love it already. I used half of a sample pouch (so about 3.5 grams if a sample is 7 grams) which seems to be working for the greens I’ve been trying lately. The flavor is like the fragrance – cream and corn. But this one has an interesting smoky and mildly spicy flavor to both steeps that remind me of a barbeque sauce type flavor. Very unique for a green tea, I think, which makes something that normally might not be noticeable very apparent with a green tea. Both steeps are exactly the same. I love that all of the green teas that Teavivre offers are completely different in flavor. I didn’t know green teas could have such different flavors. The only complaint I could possibly ever have with my experience of Teavivre so far is that they don’t sell more of their teas in 50 gram or 25 gram sizes so I could buy more varieties of their tea! The teas are always so good!
Steep #1 // half sample pouch for 11 ounce mug // 30 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // 28 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Harvest: April 2015
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Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.
Some of my favorite tea shops (still operating):
birdandblendtea.com
teavivre.com
52teas.com
svtea.com
whisperingpinestea.com
justea.com
harney.com
Dammann Freres
fusionteas.com
Javateaco.com
Lupicia
Octaviatea.com
Davidstea
eco-cha.com
what-cha.com
singleoriginteas.com
teasenz.com
tealyra.com
Mandala
verdanttea.com
Favorite tea shops (RIP):
butikiteas.com
steapshoppe.com
steepcityteas.com
aquartertotea.com
dellaterrateas.com
zentealife.com
angrytearoom.com
theteamerchant.net
joysteaspoon.com
tealiciousllc.com
Rivertea
Specialteas
My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.
Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!
I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.
My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors
My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again
I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)
Happy sipping!
Location
USA
