Velvet Garden White Rose

I really should know better than to try a delicate new tea at my fiancee’s house when he really doesn’t have a good way to warm up water. This is why I normally stay with black teas at his house.

It didn’t taste like much. Just water with a light splash of rose. I don’t want to discount this tea because I think it will taste better if I could brew it right. Next time it pops up in the assortment, I am taking it home and brewing it where I know I can get the water temperature a little lower.

vanilla_bookworm sent me a couple bags of this to try out (thank you so much!!). Even with my stuffy nose (yup, I’m still sniffling), I can still clearly smell the roses. Reminds me of rosewater and my Aunt Della’s vanity…all that fancy old-fashioned jewelry and make-up containers. I haven’t thought of sitting there going through those bits and bobbles for years…if nothing else, I love this tea for that.

The taste isn’t all that different from then smell. Very rosy, and the white tea is still present, though rose is definitely the star of this show.

The only rose teas I’ve had have been rose congou black teas where the rose was more of an accompanim ent rather than the main even. Here, combined with the milder white tea the rose is noticeably more prominent, although it isn’t unpalatable. This tea has a light, delicate, almost girly quality that make me think of a Victorian-style tea party in the middle of a old-fashioned rose garden. Male tea drinkers need not apply. ;)

I could see this making a nice iced tea aswell, something smooth and refreshing to drink on a hot day.

1 bag for 250mL water, bare. Numi recommends cooling the water a bit after boiling — good. It makes me cringe when white and green tea packaging exhorts the use boiling water. Yeesh, way to ruin white and green tea for first-timers. But I digress.

For a white tea, this one gives off a slighlty leathery atringenct scent that I normally expect from a first flush Darjeeling. Or is that part of the rose I’m catching?

The rose is gentle aqnd very soothing. I feel like keeping still within a comfortable chair. The different scents encourage mindfulness and rest, and that is very good.

A four-minute steep gives a pale brass-cloured liquor and a really different rose scent. Not powders and perfumes at all, but instead very classic, even a bit sharp. The astringency reminds me of the Body’s Shop’s Tea Rose perfume oil (which I love but gave up wearing because wasps and bees like it, too; guess which insects I have a phobia of), though the tea for sure does not smell as rosy as that perfume.

Really good. Especialy for a bagged white. I’d love to try this one loose.

I really like samplers. Ya like some, ya don’t like some, but it’s a great way to meet new tea.

Tastes like rose water, the flavor overpowers the tea. I could imagine some Victorian ladies or the women of Downton Abbey sipping this at high tea. Not really my cup of tea. Too perfumy.

I had this tea over the weekend and it was ok, nothing I’d write home about. It does have sweet note that is good, but it was missing the depth, but I guess I am expecting a bit too much from a tea bag. I guess, if I didn’t have anything else to drink, I would drink it again.

I love the fragrance of roses, both directly from the flower and in scented products such as soaps and perfumes, so I’m the perfect target customer for this tea. The perfume of this tea is indeed very rosy. It’s an old world scent; to some it brings to mind grandmothers or their blue haired luncheon companions, but it makes me think of cream colored china with pink floral designs displayed on doily-draped antique washstands. And it makes me feel calm, content, and meditative.

The color is a dusky pinkish brown, as though someone dropped a little of the color associated with the pink version of the flower known as a tea rose into a cup of standard light brown tea.

I know I’ve eaten rose petals before but I can’t call to mind their flavor. There is something sweetly floral about the taste of this tea, which must be the rose. I have only had flavored white teas, but my experience of them has been generally that tend toward sweet and fresh-tasting, and so this is (though I think I steeped it a bit too long this time around as it was more astringent than the last few times I had it when I steeped it from 3-4 minutes).

Dun taste rose at all. Do detect a faint rose scent. But all I taste is white tea.. the white tea is q nice & sparkling, btw. Still, disappointed.

I usually associate white teas with being dry and fuzzy for some reason. This white tea wasn’t at all, and really let the roses shine. The white tea was plain enough to really let me enjoy the scent and flavor of the roses. Really nice. I usually avoid white teas above others (black, red, green), but I would probably try other Numi white teas in the future.

It smells like roses, and tastes like roses. I enjoyed it. I got it from a cafe, and will probably get it again sometime. I usually am not a big fan of teas from teabags, so I think maybe this was good because it was mostly rose taste, not tea taste.

The first cup was a bit overpowering, but I’ve since gotten used to it. The scent overwhelms the taste just a bit, but the white tea is present in the flavor and quite good. The flavor is especially balanced after it’s cooled down a bit. A good mid-day “tea time” tea, I think, but not something I would drink regularly.

I got this in a variety pack and I will most definatly be buying this one again. Lightly sweet with a beautiful rose smell, it’s not over powering so I could easily drink this tea all day long. I think it would be even better if I wasn’t so impatient and steeped it for just a tad longer and maybe just a tad less sugar added as well.

The rose is a very grounding, comforting flavor. It isn’t super perfumey when you brew it, as it is when you smell it beforehand. I think its a good afternoon pick-me up, or when you need to stay awake late to finish homework or something, but don’t want to feel jittery.

More tea from a sample box! Huzzah! I’d never had tea with roses in it before, but I know I like white tea, so I was pretty enthusiastic about trying this one, and rightly so! The first couple of sips had me wrinkling my nose, thinking I was about to sneeze, but that didn’t last. It did continue to taste good, however. Just a bit of sugar, and away I went! It felt like an appropriate tea to be drinking while reading about King Arthur and his cousin in “Culhwch and Olwen.”

I sometimes make a cup of this just for the wonderful scent it provides. It reminds me of the soft tea rose soap my English grandmother kept. Very nostalgic and sweet. I’m not always easily sold into drinking a white tea, but I am glad I gave this one a try. This is a bit strong for a white in my opinion, so I steep it for a shorter time- I like it best with a little cane sugar and a milder flavor. The rose becomes overshadowed by the tea’s tannins and transforms from a fresh rose into a dried potpourri if steeped too long. Maybe that’s desirable to some, but I want a clean, fresh spring feel from this tea and that’s how I make it!

Eh, it was a ok tea. I wasn’t much a fan. I like rose water in desserts, I like the smell of roses, but I don’t like a straight up rose tea. It wasn’t a strong rose taste, but it was too much for me. It seemed to be a nice white tea, without the rosy kisses, I would of enjoyed it.

You need to like very flowery teas for this one, but if, like me, you do — it’s a great tea.

The white tea helps ground the fragrance and produces an even rose taste that balances well across the tongue and refreshes the palate. A good any-time or after-meal tea.

Nice rose flavor with pleasant white base. A very good afternoon tea- delicate, but no so much so that you’ll miss the flavor.

Very pleasant tea with a lovely floral scent. The taste was lighter than I thought it would be, but still enjoyable.