This is the first tea I’ve tried from this company, which graciously sent me a number of yummy samples. Boy, am I impressed! A couple of items to note as I wait for the tea to cool off a bit: the packaging of this tea was superb. Individual bags inside a larger bag (which were then inside a box)… and each individual bag looks like it will yield at least two cups, more if you resteep.
The aroma of this tea is so nice. There’s a hint of caramel and lots of hearty warmth.
Now on to the taste: toasty caramel, strong and bold. Now this is an awakening cup of black tea! Lately I’ve been trying to drink my tea straight up with no sweeteners, but honestly, even a sweet-tooth sugar queen like me doesn’t need anything to enhance this tea’s flavor. It’s robust and sweet at the same time.
This is a new cupboard essential. And a new addition to my morning wake-up call.
Heaven!
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I love your phrase sweet-tooth sugar queen! May I steal it in the future? :)
Definitely! :) From one sweet-tooth sugar queen to another! :)
was one of the last samples I had a chance to enjoy before a cold settled in and took my nose and taste buds away…I’m still waiting for a full recovery before posting again…but I wanted to mention that this was indeed one of the highlights of the samples I recieved from Teavivre. Personally I thought the packaging was a bit over-kill, a tribute to the Japanese tendency to “Russian Doll” every item till there is more packaging than product, certainly not the presentation to a bunch of tea enthuisiasts who are going to have brewing hardware and don’t need self-dosing simplicity. Hope to join your review with my own soon and can’t wait for newly born taste buds.
@Kashyap – thanks for weighing in, I thought I was the only person on Steepster who was annoyed by the packaging, i’m glad there is someone else. ;-)
@Amy oh…you certainly are not the only one :)
I didnt mind the double packaging because some of my samples would have heavily scented the others, and I assumed that the only reason the tea was in small pouches was because they were prepackaged samples. Surely when you place an order for several ounces or more it doesn’t come in those small packets, does it? I think a few people have placed orders. Chime in on how your tea was portioned when it arrived, please! :)
I’ve found that I get three full-flavored eight-ounce cups from one of the little sample bags.
I used a gram/oz scale upon opening any of the ‘pre-portioned’ samples and brewed them both according to industry standard by wt. and then also by ‘sample’ ..figured i might as well be emperical
i am fairly new at all this and i was curious. how much were the little sample bags and how did you order them???
I love your phrase sweet-tooth sugar queen! May I steal it in the future? :)
Definitely! :) From one sweet-tooth sugar queen to another! :)
was one of the last samples I had a chance to enjoy before a cold settled in and took my nose and taste buds away…I’m still waiting for a full recovery before posting again…but I wanted to mention that this was indeed one of the highlights of the samples I recieved from Teavivre. Personally I thought the packaging was a bit over-kill, a tribute to the Japanese tendency to “Russian Doll” every item till there is more packaging than product, certainly not the presentation to a bunch of tea enthuisiasts who are going to have brewing hardware and don’t need self-dosing simplicity. Hope to join your review with my own soon and can’t wait for newly born taste buds.
@Kashyap – thanks for weighing in, I thought I was the only person on Steepster who was annoyed by the packaging, i’m glad there is someone else. ;-)
@Amy oh…you certainly are not the only one :)
I didnt mind the double packaging because some of my samples would have heavily scented the others, and I assumed that the only reason the tea was in small pouches was because they were prepackaged samples. Surely when you place an order for several ounces or more it doesn’t come in those small packets, does it? I think a few people have placed orders. Chime in on how your tea was portioned when it arrived, please! :)
I’ve found that I get three full-flavored eight-ounce cups from one of the little sample bags.
I used a gram/oz scale upon opening any of the ‘pre-portioned’ samples and brewed them both according to industry standard by wt. and then also by ‘sample’ ..figured i might as well be emperical
i am fairly new at all this and i was curious. how much were the little sample bags and how did you order them???