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“I need to up the rating on this. It’s consistently good, even if I only steep it once (it’s rare I steep a white twice, especially a flavored one). As long as I keep that temperature down, it’s...” Read full tasting note
“My Zen Tea order came in like, what, a week ago or something? But I kept putting off trying anything. Dry, this smells like a pleasantly mild toffee. It has a drier scent to it in the background...” Read full tasting note
“Toasty, nutty, sweet but not cloying. A nice white toffee flavored tea. I have found I am not IN LOVE with the white teas lately … I don’t dislike them but I’m not craving them. With that said …...” Read full tasting note
“Woot! all the family is gone! Life is mostly back to normal post wedding, I just have lots of cleaning and laundry to do! Oddly, the wedding gift I’m most excited for is the new vacuum and steam...” Read full tasting note
Gives mild white sweet accent with toffee. Must try teas for white tea lovers.
Pai Mu Tan white tea, toffee pieces, flavour.
For one cup, use 1-2 tsp of tea, steep in 176F/80C water for two minutes.
Price: $11 /100g
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So I’m thankful to zen tea for letting me try this one out. It’s got a nutty, creamy toffee flavour and I can see why people enjoy this. It’s just not for me. :) I really appreciate the sample and I’m glad I got the chance to try it, but its just not a tea flavour that appeals me even though its a nice tea. Leaving a rating off since I think this is more of a personal I don’t like the flavour than a “this is a bad tea” :)
The dry blend smells of caramel and the liquor smells of my roommate’s Indonesian coffee candies (they taste vaguely like a TH double double). The taste is a combination of a watered down version of those coffee candies, nuts, and dry grass- like the grass that has gone golden and brittle after a long hot summer. Not that much toffee.
Edit- after trying to drink a pot of this tea, with the result of me dumping most of it, I guess I’m going to have to come to terms with the fact that I don’t like this one in the slightest. I feel awful about it. :(
I guess that flavour has it’s own appeal and place, but I don’t feel particularly won over by it. Thanks, Cavocorax, for the chance to try this!
Toffee. White tea. What could go wrong? not much! I’m liking this sample. Thanks to Kittenna/Sil for sharing!
Very smooth and intense on the caramel. I love that it’s so well balanced.
The second infusion wasn’t quite as tasty, a hair plasticky. Making me hesitant to try a third. But… I will gladly finish off the rest of the sample!
1.5 tablespoons for 375ml of water
Hazelnut aroma from brewed tea.
Coconut/nutty-like flavour on the sip. Mild nutty sweetness. Crisp celery flavour note which seems to come out of the nutty-ness. White tea taste compliments the flavour profile very well.
Thank you Indigobloom and Sil for sharing this with me!
got that one during the 50% off from Zen tea and finally received it today after thinking it was lost in the mail ( won’t let that change my note Zen tea can’t control the postal service after all and they where nice when answering my numerous email )
I don’t really like being with lot of people so holiday like Christmas are not really for me during this one i mostly stay in my cave with a thermos of hot water and some tea listening to ac/dc and playing online game my thermos get only 2 cup of water in it but well it’s better than nothing.
My first steep of that one was a failure not enough leaf probably the smell was really nice but the taste was not there so i won’t give my note from that one.
My second steep on the other hand was awesome i didn’t want to toss the tea without at least another steep but having spill some water not enough was left for a full cup the missing water was replace by some Southern comfort ( i think it’s some kind of spiced rhum with peach taste in it ) the peach from it as make all the flavor from my weak tea appear it’s not something i would do normally but meh it is the holiday after all it was a winning choice since it’s saved my tea so my note come from this steep for now till a try another normal steep
I know their sale is ending soon (if it hasn’t already). So tempted to get some tea, but I have so much tea already I need to go through :(
hmm it was till the 24 i think so should end today. 2 of their tea was on my list of “tea i want in my permanent collection” so it was a good time for me to buy some more lol otherwise i too have tea i should drink before buying more
I’m with Sil on this one. I am incredibly grateful to Zen Tea for sending out such generous samples, but there is something about this tea that is just not jiving with me. I’m not sure why, as I normally enjoy dessert-y flavors. But right from the get go the smell was incredibly off putting to me, almost to the point of making me a little sick. I hoped it would brew into something I liked, but that wasn’t the case. I can’t drink it. Sorry :c If anyone would like the rest of my sample, I’d be happy to mail it to you.
