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A sipdown! (M: 2 Y: 60), prompt: a tea in a sachet
A year ago, or so, I have received (among others), 3 pyramid sachets of this tea from Kaylee — thank you!

It says Jasmine Triangular Original Tea Bag with origin in Taiwan and Sri Lanka; Manufactuer written as Jemmy Tea Ltd. and search of which brings no results to me.

And I have to say it is perfectly easy-drinking jasmine tea, with nice base (I wonder if that comes from Taiwan). Grassy green tea and no hay and old tea notes; instead it was fresh tasting and enjoyable. Yes, this last sachet was a bit worse (but also a few days past best before date). But, as I wrote, a good daily-drinker to me, if I had to seek jasmine tea on daily basis.

A sipdown! (M: 1 Y: 59)

This tea has aged well. So creamy sheng, with notes of green apple skins; some refreshing notes — menthol like; and steeps of very various lenghts were always tasty.

Considering I was saving one 4 grams chunk for 3.5 years makes me wonder, if it is a lucky accident that this tea is so good, or it is because I have good storage parameters, or it is a sign of a good tea.

The chunk was super easy to pry, so before humidity absorption time I decided to pry it and make it loose.

Nevertheless, I liked it and keeping the rating 86, though I consider myself a bit more experienced with puerhs.

Apparently I haven’t wrote a note for this tea I bought almost a year ago when I was in Germany. Well, maybe because there is so little to write about.

This is supposed to be a peppermint tea and well, it tastes like it. A musty and weak peppermint. One tea bag is too little; so I usually prepare it with two and it doubles the mustiness and doesn’t bring any refreshing menthol notes.

11 bags to go.

A monthly list (March 2025) of sipdowns without proper note:

A sipdown! (M: 10 Y: 50) Grapefruit Delight by TakeT
A sharedown! (M: 11 Y: 51) Nepal Aroma Jeevan Gold by Klasek Tea
A sharedown! (M: 12 Y: 52) HexenWald by Teehaus Mörl
A sipdown! (M: 13 Y: 53) Royal Peach & Thyme by Richard
A sipdown! (M: 14 Y: 54) Royal Ceylon by Richard
A sipdown! (M: 15 Y: 55) 1000 and 1 Royal Nights by Richard
A sipdown! (M: 16 Y: 56) Royal Rose by Richard
A sipdown! (M: 17 Y: 57) Mengding Ganlu by Siam Tee Shop
A sipdown! (M: 18 Y: 58) Huang Ya Yellow Tips by Siam Tee Shop

A sipdown! (M: 9 Y: 49) prompt: a good resteeper

This tea was a mood brighter; as well a good resteeper.

Many, many steeps made; all of them equally good, smooth, mouthcoating shu, no funky notes, sometimes more creamy, probabyl depends how perfect timing was performed.

Thank you, a lot, Michelle!

A sipdown! (M: 8 Y: 48) prompt: A breakfast tea

Well, nope. This is too much for me. Too much light elements. Very citrusy bergamot combined with distinctive jasmine. Somehow a floral bomb and I don’t like it enough.

Seems like this box was rather a bummer.

I have a very little left from 100 grams pouch I bought last year; as i have shared it with others and drank it quite rapidly myself as well.

Sadly, I can’t tell it is great tea. Fine enough, yes. But something is lacking; the complexity of flavours and aromas aren’t here, rather it tastes, as others mentioned, like a simple Darjeeling with its floral / muscatel note.
It was smooth, but as Inkling have written, it misses oomph note. Definitely a good daily drinker and the price is worth that; but not for enjoying hiqh quality tea with lots of to explore.
Its 2019 harvest was better than this one. I have tried different steeping times, lower temperatures, nothing made me wow.

So, finally, I have decided to try this tea. I have received 5 grams sample and half of it I sent to derk who enjoyed it greatly.

I tried to follow vendor suggestions, starting with 20 seconds steep and rather small increments like 5 seconds only. Using 95°C hot water. That seems steep to me, when it is a white tea.

If you want to read more about this Dutch-grown tea, they have updated its description and it is available for reading here: https://moychay.nl/products/exclusive-dutch-white-tea

The harvest year isn’t written on the pouch, but I assume they have only one and that’s 2021. Don’t get fooled, this tea isn’t stale and weak… instead I have received a strong, complex and unique tea I will try to describe.

The leaves look amazing on their own. Large, autumn-like leaves; I didn’t sniffed to them when dry, but now, when they’re damp, they release interesting fruity notes, that remind me berries, maybe raspberries and forest berries, shortly followed with faint, but noticeable autumn leaf piles, because of stems I believe

Flavour after two steeps I made so far, while writing those lines… is mouthcoating, strong, sweet-berry like somehow similar to the aroma of the leaves, but in extra, I consider it a bit spicy, like there was a cinnamon and nutmeg hidden in the leaves. Especially strong in the second session, 25 seconds long. Mouthfeel is not fading, coats well; with sweet aftertaste. It’s not cloying though, and complements well the fruity-spicy flavours.

Long steeps doesn’t hurt this tea. Well, to wrap it up; Dutch-grown tea seems to be good enough to drink; naturally a bit more expensive than their Eastern counterparts, not mentioning Georgian; but equally delightful.

A sipdown! (M: 7 Y: 47)

Third of their Earl Grey assortment and very similar to their Earl Grey Orange. A little bit more fruitier I think; with makes a little stronger clash between tangerine and bergamot.

A sipdown! (M: 6 Y: 46)

This one is the second of the 4 in Basilur Earl Grey assortment. Sadly, here I don’t think it works well together. It was kind of soapy with quite meh base tea I mentioned in previous one.