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100 Monkeys from Imperial Tea Garden

Steepster Score 3 Ratings Rate This Tea

76/100

100 Monkeys

White Tea by Imperial Tea Garden

Imperial Tea Garden online tea store
Taste the difference!

100 monkeys is a premium grade, loose leaf white tea from China.

This rare and exotic white tea will leave even the most discriminating connoisseur with a smile. You will enjoy watching as the tea leaves unfurl and return to their original state.

White tea is really a subclass of green tea, however, due to its recent acclaim, it has been given a class of its own. The major distinction is that white tea is not mechanically processed. Buds and select leaves are harvested and merely air dried.
This minimal amount of processing can make white tea have up to three times more beneficial antioxidants than green or black tea.

100 Monkeys is our best selling white tea. Buy this rare white tea wholesale and save even more!

8 Tasting Notes

LiberTEAS
88
LiberTEAS 4 tasting notes

Thank you to TeaEqualsBliss for sending me some of this tea.

The flavor is light. There are undertones of sweet and bitter to it. I’m not finding the bitter to be an unpleasant bitter though, it adds dimension to the cup. A very interesting cup.

I really like this tea. It has so many interesting layers of flavor. There is a savory bitterness that cuts through some of the sweetness. Enchanting floral notes.

delightful!

Backlog: I finished up the last that I had in my stash of this one… and am raising the numeric rating because it was so awesome. I will miss this one!

Here is my full-length review: http://sororiteasisters.com/2011/02/07/100-monkeys-white-tea-from-imperial-tea-garden/

I brewed some of this to enjoy with Chinese take-out lunch – yum!

Sweet yet bitter, this tea is truly a unique white tea.

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TeaEqualsBliss
74

Has a slight musty smell.
1st sip I wasn’t so sure about…
thereafter -
it does get better.
much flavor but a musty woodsy type
as it cools it isn’t as woodsy maybe more floral or earthy…even

It’s ‘ok’

Rumpus Parable
64
Rumpus Parable 3 tasting notes

The steeped tea smell sweet, a bit bitter, too with a hint of tobacco scent (of the plant, not of cigarettes or cigars, in case anyone was unclear).

In sipping, it has that tobacco scent turned to flavor that wraps around the sides of tongue up into the nose.

It is a bit bitter, especially on the middle of the tongue it feels. The bitterness isn’t great but isn’t terribly off-putting either. It’s not bad, I’m just not sure I like it.

That’s about it… Maybe a faint mustiness to the scent and flavor, too.

Another quality tea I wouldn’t buy more of.

I brewed this one a bit strong, 5.7g of tea to 12oz water, due to finishing off the last bit I had.

Again the scent is strongly tobacco and something faintly, beigely bitter. -But again, not unpleasantly so.

The flavor is very much the smell but with the addition of a light sweetness. The finish is lasting and roasted tasting. There’s also a berry quality to the roof of the mouth and nose when swallowing when it cools some.

Again I like this but probably won’t buy it. It’s tasty, quality, but doesn’t hit my “wow, gotta have!” button. I’m glad that my husband bought me the sample to try, it was very pleasant.

Looks like I’m buying some more, on giving him a taste the spouse really likes it.

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