Therapy - Youth Potion

I tried this tea again with a higher steeping time and temperature and the results were better. The white tea base is still a little bit whimpy but the goji berry flavour was nice – though I suppose that’s partially because I deliberatly mushed the berries against the side of the cup as I was taking the bag out.

I’m still not sure if I want to keep this tea or give it away. Maybe I’ll take half and put the other half up for adoption. I sense another post in the “Take It Away” thread in my future. ;)

I decided to have the last bag of this tea iced to see if made a difference. Turns out I do taste more of the white tea’s flavour when it’s cold, though the goji berry flavour seems to make the tea almost a bit smokey. It might be improved with some sweetener, but honestly I don’t really care about this tea enough to want to bother trying.

The taste of goji berries is pretty unique – tart, a bit like a rosehip, but they have an underlying almost salty-umami flavour to them aswell that I’ve never come across in any other fruit.

/random blog post is random

Second steeping and there’s a bit more flavour, but I really have to look for the white tea in the cup. It’s a light, faintly nutty flavour, but it’s oddly seperate from the flavour of the goji berries. They just don’t seem to mesh for whatever reason.