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Yesterday was a fairly awesome day. And so, in order to try and keep the goodness going, I decided to start today off with some of one of my favorite teas. I love this tea. It’s got the bergamot-y citrus, the cream of the vanilla and the tea behind it all, supporting it and enfolding it.
I slightly oversteeped it today, but you can’t tell because I’m serving it with FF half and half and splenda. It’s wonderful.

May all of your days out there in Steepsterland start off so nicely! :)

Not bad, but my sample was a little weak. I’d love to try this a little fresher. It had a nice color and good aroma.

I am having a hard time writing this review. This tea makes me think of nothing more than sitting outside on a sunny day in the short grass. Sun is shining on your face, and the sweet scent of the lawn washing over you. There even may be a hammock involved. All of that in just a little cup of tea. Bliss. It’s a lovely image, and a really nice cup of tea. Very mellow, smooth, just a hint of astringency at the finish, just making you want to take that next sip all the sooner. It has a hint of sweetness in the aroma – I can see where Rishi finds the “sweetly toasted chestnut” from it’s product description. There are no stand-out notes in this tea for me – just a blended mellowness that I’m really enjoying. I have a feeling that drinking this on a cold, snowy December might instantly transport you to a very spring-like place.

Unfortunately for this review – outside it’s a beautiful sunny day, and there actually is a hammock. Both the cup of tea next to me, and the entire back yard are telling me I need to take this tea outside and sit and enjoy it in the sunshine. I don’t think I can hold out any longer.

(originally posted at http://www.itsallabouttheleaf.com/553/tea-review-rishi-tea-jade-cloud-organic-fair-trade-green-tea/)

Finishing up my sample. A nice, typical Jasmine Pearl. Very enjoyable.

Having this today at work since I have no sweetner and a lot of black tea that needs to be sweetened. Sigh. I got to find out how forgiving this tea can be – because I forgot I was brewing it for steep #2, and it went long – and yet is still drinkable.

Nice tea.

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Yum.

I need something to get me through this business trip, and this is helping, a lot. I love how creamy and minty and just yummy this is.

Broke in a new teapot with this last night – it was a lovely way to end a pretty good day. Sweet and cinnamon and yum. :)

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Finished my sample of this today – tragedy. It’s so yummy and orangey and just overall good.

This is a tea produced by Tillerman Teas and sold by Bon Teavant Market. It may now be out of stock as I can’t find it now on either web site.

Opening the package, I was hit by a very un-white tea scent. The tea is dark and has a heady, rich scent that reminds me of raisins. Is this really a white tea?

On brewing, it reminds you that yes, it’s a white tea. The liquor is very pale, a very light yellow, and it has the hay-like scent of many other white teas.

The flavor, however, is where this tea is special. I thought my first sip was fairly similar to some of the white peony teas I’d had, a slightly hay like flavor, refreshing and light. Or it did, until the finish, when a dark fruity flavor developed on my tounge. Like raisins, but not sweet. It’s a BIG white tea, where the flavors come as a surprise.

The tea does not have the buttery mouthfeel of some other whites I’ve had, like silver needle, but does have a nice body to it.

Overall, this is an emensely enjoyable white. It might help some of you who tend to think that “white tea is just slightly colored water” find a tea you like.

Decent, but not as good iced as it is hot. I feel more like I’m drinking a bucket of cold water with a stick stuck in the bottom than a prepared iced tea drink. Or maybe water that’s been sitting in a wooden bucket for a while. It’s not unpleasant, but not really something I’d want to replicate.

Definitely nutty, definitely yummy, rather soothing. It really does remind me of wood, but in a very yummy way.

Made up this tea yesterday before I noticed how late at work it was – and I didn’t want to waste the oolong leaves, so I quickly brewed up two more batches and stuck them in my waterbottle in the fridge overnight.

Not a bad iced tea. I did brew at boiling, so it’s got an edge of bitter, but overall, this is pretty darned decent for iced tea! I’ll have to do this again.

Nice, mellow, oolong with floral overtones. Very twisty leaves, and nicely aromatic.

Wow, this turned a deep dark pinky purple. Flavor-wise I found it a little sweeter than expected, but a little boring. Nice to try it, but not something I’ll search out.

hrm. There’s a lot going on with this tea. It’s a very light, almost boring looking oolong once brewed up, but in the cup it tastes like it can’t make up it’s mind about what it wants to be when it grows up. It’s got dark notes, floral notes, spicy notes and honestly, it’s a bit too much for me. Complex is nice, confused isn’t.

It’s interesting, but I don’t know it would make it only my permanent shelf. I’m glad I got to try it however.

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I’m breaking one of my own rules here. I got this tea to review for www.itsallabouttheleaf.com and I don’t like to put any info on Steepster until after the review posts – I think it’s just polite, since they sent me tea to review and all.

But I just have to say how much I’m enjoying this one. It’s yummy, it’s pretty, and it’s just darned good tea. I think I’ll be getting some of this for myself after my sample is gone.

Nom, nom, nom.

I didn’t get that much milkyness out of my sample. It seemed like a fairly light green oolong. A nice, light green oolong, but I’ve gotten more milkiness or creamy flavors out of others. I did brew it fairly cool. Maybe if I tried hotter, I’d have gotten more out of it. Hrm.

I think my sample was exposed to too much air and light (which was all my fault) because I wasn’t that impressed. I didn’t get much of an aroma off the tea, nor did it have a strong flavor for me. Someday I’ll try it again with a fresher batch, and I’m fairly confident I’ll like it more.