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I went through all of this tea I had in one gongfu session. Thank you derk for this wonderful tea.

Harvest April 2020. Almost 4 years old. I have it… who knows how long?
7 g/boiling/125 ml gaiwan, steeped all through my thermos, not sure about the volume?

When heated and after short rinse, fruit notes are here with some spices, nutmeg or/and cinnamon, warming and pleasant.

I made approx. 6 or 7 steeps, starting with 10/20/10 seconds nad rest were up to one minute; last one was loooong, but not measured. Approx 3 minutes I assume.

Whoa, this tea have lots of to offer. Lovely fruit notes of pears and raisins, somehow followed with forest dark honey, through sweet and exciting flavours of vanilla crescents with creamy mouthfeel.
I would not thought it is a GABA, as it doesn’t had that note I noticed in other GABA oolong in the morning — the note of umami, vegetals and powder.

Actually I couldn’t pick up any vegetal note, and it wasn’t really the darkest oolong in my experience. That’s surprising.

Definitely a nice harvest and nice tea… with high probability buying one day.

Sipdown prompt: Your most unusual tea — though not sipped down yet. Maybe I have other tea that would fit this better.

I was actually waiting to review this, last Xian Cha tea tea. To see derk’s impressions first, as I wasn’t really sure what I was noticing in this oolong. It is an oolong mixed with actual gardenia flowers and that’s why I bought it as it was somehow uncommon for me.

When I read that note, I was in visible confusion. Pineapple flavour? Like what? Where? How so? It is supposed to be heavy in florals.

I have prepared it today, western, as on their bag. That’s 3 steeps with 95°C water with following steeping times: 2, 3 and 3 minutes. I have tried it with boiling water before and it seems it kills the nuances of flavours.

I get the pinapple today, definitely and very real, juicy almost.
And it goes so well with the floral, narcotic aroma of the gardenias. It goes so well together. And that word indeed fits this tea well.

Long mouthfeel, tropical fruits with hints of green oolong notes — vegetal a bit (but definitely not too much), floral (obviously gardenia), creamy (they write it’s a milk oolong), smooth, energizing and long aftertaste here as well. Distinctive, but not in a bad way. Considering another pouch once this one finished.

I have uploaded 4 photos of their stand to my Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdtsM

Hmm, I have been searching anything about Noni and found almost nothing related to fruit; like how it should taste or something. Plum, on the other hand is well-known fruit for me; and this tea is… very ripe plum forward; very fruity and hibiscus is quite tamed when steeped short.
But actually, this blend was a bit of dismal for me. It was somehow plum-like, maybe a bit more of raw flavour would be a bit better than ripe; as it just together with hibiscus it blends into one single “fruit tea” profile.

This tea is actually quite real to part of its name. It is true to wine flavour, fresh, floral, refreshing, some muscatel; but definitely it’s not strawberry forward (but some fruitiness is there) and sadly, not efferescent or sparkling note.

I like it for its price tag.

There are cups of certain herbs that are especially relaxing for me and this is one of them. My muscles felt much softer and cup full of Vitamin C as I have read somewhere — that’s douglas fir tips tea.

Definitely relaxing, definitely tasty… just something I needed this evening.
Thank you derk for a whole box. That will last for a while.

Cardboard with whiff of forest fruits, especially blackberries.

A sipdown! (M: 1, Y: 21) — Prompt: An unflavored black tea

2022 “vintage” and called Summer Wonder but I wrote a note about this tea here before, so I am keeping my sipdown note in same entry.

Western steeping. Probably I haven’t tried it gongfu.

Leafhopper thank you! A fine 1st flush tea with flavours that lean a bit more towards 2nd flush — autumn leaf pile, muscatel and warm spices today in my cup, followed with meadow and honey flavours. Smooth and silky as derk notices in their note. A great cup for afternoon.

It’s hard to go pass colorful boxes of Basilur teas; moreover a sampler boxes. Sooo… I bought two fruit tea boxes, each with 5 flavours. Some are overlapping, some aren’t. But looking forward to try those caffeine-free teas from my favorite brand.

I have prepared this tea for first time yesterday for my brother and he said it is well done tea with both fruits being present and that it was tasty. So, today I have prepared it for myself, with a bit longer steep and less water (he was using huge mug, while I used little one).

Well, I have to agree with him — mango was present and peach as well. Both fruits ripe and juicy, but sadly hibiscus is it ruining it for me a bit. It’s also tart. Not so much, but more than I would like in those fruits.
Maybe… it was because my 7 minutes steep.
But intended flavours are genuine and fresh, not artificial, so I will try to cut down steeping time and I assume it will be very fine then.

This was my tea yesterday in the office. I had a rehab in the morning before work; morning exercises aren’t for me at all!
And overall, when I came to the office I felt not relaxed, but rather a bit tense, perplexed and overall just feeling weird. I need a vacation or change a job. Or both.

Anyway, I had a very small tin since I joined the first TTB there; somehow forgotten, somehow just neglected. But decided to brew it yesterday, because… what can go wrong? No St. John’s wort, that’s good. I can’t have that herb in any form.

Okay, this tea made me so drowsy. I assume I even felt asleep in the chair for a little while. So, yes, I guess it is a good for relaxing.
Taste-wise it is a nice herbal with some bitter and salty finish, like a dandelion root? But overall it was fine. Just maybe drinking it at work isn’t the best.

Huh, I never wrote a note for this tea?
And I thought I prepared it a few times! But I had 15 grams, which means like I had it just once?

Prepared as on label: 5g tea, 5 minutes, 90°C water. Definitely smells smoky, but in flavour it is rather like a coffee tea! Definitely and distinctly coffee.
Nice and round mouthfeel though.