1429 Tasting Notes
One day I’ll go exploring and learn to appreciate the darker varieties of oolong. For now it just tastes like a green oolong except it’s also tangy sour and the malt of roasted grains (also think the non-waffle ice cream cones). It’s simply not my thing right now.
Flavors: Floral, Malt, Stonefruit, Vegetal
Thanks OMGsrsly for letting me try this. I’ve been curious for a while but it always seems to be sold out or out of season when I go to look at it.
I had enough loose leaf for about five different sessions and they were somewhat varied in the tasting and aroma notes despite the same parameters. All the cups where pretty awesome in their own way, although the smooth, almost creamy jasmine note wasn’t consistent. Sometimes I got more vegetal chestnuts, which while good isn’t as much of a draw for me as the well balanced jasmine cups (2/5).
Give me that smooth, balanced cream of jasmine in a cup and I won’t need to rip apart the neighbor’s well tended garden for flower butter, nectar of the gods.
Flavors: Jasmine, Sugarcane, Vegetal
Preparation
New 52teas from the original sampler kickstarter.
I went from an open declaration of war on honeybush to wanting to rub this stuff into my clean bedding and pajamas. I need to find a way to put it in my oil diffuser. Aroma, please find a way to permeate every space I occupy. It smells like fresh, buttery berry pastries and usually tastes like that too.
You win again 52teas.
Flavors: Bread, Butter, Jam, Raspberry
Preparation
New 52teas reblend.
This isn’t quite as good as a tangy latte anymore; the flavours are a tad light for milk, at least they have been with my experiments so far. However, I find the new version’s flavour range to be more dynamic and true to the tea name. I can actually taste the pumpkin and spice, and usually get a caramel cheesecake finish. I also taste black tea. These things are huge point scorers for me!
Flavors: Caramel, Cheesecake, Cream, Malt, Pumpkin, Spices
Preparation
This is delicious, OMGsrsly. I drank this all day, using short steeps of 5-15 sec and I never once became bored.
I also had a mini heart attack when I visually interpreted the delightful tea bubbles as a scary tea spider upon sip. Luckily the steeped tea spider appears to be a mythical creature. Good times with tea and absurd brain. To be fair, they were very lively bubbles.. It’s amazing what stress does to the brain.
Flavors: Apricot, Honey, Tangy
This was a tea suggestion from Bear With Me. Unlike Sil, I enjoy my citruses and florals. Mm, delicious florals.
I viewed this a more cutting kind of earl grey, and I had a good time with it. The jasmine nor the bergamot curdled the milk with their liveliness, which is always nice. Definitely a sharp, bright wake-me-up tea though. I’d add it to the mental spa category of teas.
Flavors: Bergamot, Jasmine
Preparation
Honestly, when I first read the name I was expecting (hoping for) maple. Maybe this tea is meant to represent not what a stereotypical Canadian eats for breakfast but what an actual Canadian would taste and smell like during said meal: bergamot and jasmine. We are unanimously a clean smelling bunch before noon.
OMGsrsly is good people and generously gave me the rest of theirs. This is honestly a delicious tea that I don’t want to say goodbye to it ever. It tastes exactly as I remembered, albeit slightly more like wine, despite the age.
Flavors: Citrus, Cream, Floral, Rose
Preparation
The sweetly tart raspberry delivers both in smell and taste but I’m just not a fan of this type of green base, which for me is a big bucket of generic meh. If it wasn’t for that I’d be a bigger fan of this one!
Flavors: Floral, Raspberry
Preparation
This sweet and savory tea, from OMGsrsly, is way too easy to drink. It’s been a while since I’ve had puerh or done short concentrated steeps with a tea all day long, but this tea never punished me for it. There was even a moment where I may have forgotten it for a bit (5 minutes), but it remained relatively delicious.
The flavour profile reminds me somewhat of Butiki’s White Rhino tea and coffee cake. Not bad.
Flavors: Coffee, Hay, Honey