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2025 sipdown no. 39

This is definitely lavender with a softness of vanilla, without much actual vanilla flavour. The chai spices are mostly drowned out by the lavender, but I don’t mind.

Thanks for sharing Cameron!

2025 sipdown no. 38

The reviews of this tea are amazing and I so wanted to feel the same way, but sadly didn’t find this tea as incredible as others. I’m not a huge fan of Ruby 18, so perhaps that’s why? The tea is quite smooth with some honey sweetness. The resteep isn’t anything to write home about and I found it introduced a light astringency that wasn’t in the initial steep.

2025 sipdown no. 37

Thanks Cameron!

I didn’t take any notes/don’t remember anything special because it didn’t wow me, but a nice enough cuppa.

2025 sipdown no. 36

This one is decent. The base is nice enough (I believe the same as their lemon black tea) and the strawberry flavour wasn’t cloying. I absolutely adore a ripe strawberry, but strawberry teas just don’t do it for me.

Thanks for sharing Cameron!

2025 sipdown no. 35

This tea tastes like a cinnamon baked good to me, maybe a warm cinnamon loaf. The taste is even better once cooled (forgotten and left to fully cool, whoops). I really enjoy this one and both steeps are great. I fear I’m not at all tasting what it’s meant to taste like, but I’ll take it haha!

Thanks Cameron for this tea!

1st steep 5 minutes
2nd steep 8 minutes

2025 sipdown no. 34

This has a lovely lemon flavour that comes through clearly. The base is fine, with nothing much to report except that it doesn’t detract from the lemon and isn’t astringent — both of which I appreciate. Thanks Cameron for sharing!

Thanks Cameron for so many teas! Actually, I still have a few from the last batch you sent and a few from Martin as well, eep. Time to sip some things down!

I only managed a single sip of this while it was warm, but I quite like it fully cooled. The base is slightly astringent, but I quite like the fruit flavour. It’s definitely giving a tropical fruit vibe, somewhat generic, but also like a not quite fully ripe pineapple.

Made as an iced latte with homemade lavender syrup and oat milk (1.5 tsp of matcha).

We ordered four different matchas from Tealyra and this is the first one we tried. This is a pretty weak matcha, I have to add double the amount to have any matcha flavour. Also, with soy milk (imo creamier than oat), the flavour is more ‘drowned out’. This was the cheapest variety we ordered, so it tracks that the flavour isn’t very robust. The flavour is nice enough, with creaminess and a subtle chalkiness. Not the best matcha, but not the worst. I doubt I’d re-order this one, especially if the other variations fair better.

2025 sipdown no. 33

I while ago I ran out of matcha from Teavivre and picked this up as a replacement. While this is a good matcha, I personally found the vegetal flavour a bit too pronounced. On the positive side: it’s smooth with minimal bitterness and decently creamy. It works in a pinch (and we easily finished off 100g), but I know there are matches out there I’d enjoy more.

Finishing this as a cold matcha latte with homemade lavender syrup and oat milk.

2025 sipdown no. 32

I sipped through 25g of this quite quickly – a sure sign of a tasty tea. I was quite intrigued with this being from an ecological reserve. There was a lovely sweetness to this tea that is unlike other Tawainese HM oolongs. The tasting notes say biscuits and pastry and I found this leaned toward a biscuit sweetness. Mixed with that distinctive high mountain, light, clean, breezy flavour. A really lovely tea and one I would order again.

I generally steeped this 3-4 times, all at 90° C.