Flowering Teas - White Tea with Peach

So this was my first experience with flowering tea… overall I think it went pretty well minus some water spilling and some flower floaties in my tea.

My wonderful boyfriend just bought me this teapot set that came with 30 something servings of flowering tea (white tea with peach, green tea with jasmine and earl grey I believe). I just picked it up from the post office today so I was really excited to try it out!!!

The raw tea smells really yummy and peachy like a fresh juicy peach or maybe just peach rings candy but any way it smelled delicious. The wet leaves smelled kind of like sea water which was a little weird.

The first cup I had was almost clear after steeping for 5 minutes and it tasted like hot water with a faint peach taste. The second cup however was much stronger. It was a little more yellow and tasted more like white tea with a hint of peach.

For the second infusion I have a pot cooling in the fridge. I think that it will make an absolutely delicious iced tea and I could use some iced tea in this weather.

Utterly fabulous. This one smells great the moment you open the container. Sweet and earthy and tastes good all day. I can keep pouring water into my Teava Rhapsody, looking at my lovely flower and steeping the tea four or five times in a day before need to even consider getting a new ball. Absolutely the best new addition to my work desk.

steepedintruth: I think you may have had a poorly steeped tea. I did in fact taste the peach flavor.

Instructions were a little vague on the side of the canister; the other blooms I’ve had instructed the explicit use of boiling water to make the tea, but this particular bloom was a white tea. So to be safe, I used sub-boiling water and steep for about 3 minutes. As I hoped, the blossom fanned out with time, but unfortunately, the flower within appeared withered and damaged, and didn’t spread out as nicely as I hoped. The tea itself was lighter than most of the non-black teas I’ve consumed lately, and had a slightly vegetative taste to it, almost like a green tea. Peach flavoring tasted a bit artificial though. 3/5