New Tasting Notes

My boyfriend buys everything and anything with goji berries in it so of course this ended up in our cupboard. We have a big bag of dried goji berries and while they are full of antioxidants, they are not super fun to eat. This tea was tart and a little fruity though. I liked it!

It was good.

I don’t know what it is about Rooibos teas, but I cannot stand them. This tea has a very distinct overwhelming licorice flavor. It’s too rich so that I can’t taste the “lemon grass tang” two leaves’ description claims (sorry guys). I wonder what other people think about this tea. Perhaps, I just don’t like rooibos.

3 min steep in mug with water 1 min off the boil. Selected this today more for health benefits than aesthetics. I’m so enamored of oolongs at the moment that green tea suffers by comparison, and ginsengs have a bit of an obnoxious flavor anyway. It was okay, but I added half an envelope of Splenda and some cool water. Green tea enthusiasts may fare much better, methinks.

Tart, warm, raspberry fruitiness.

Minty Fresh! It almost tastes like a bit of chamomile toward the end of the sip but it’s not…You really have to like minty-stuff to enjoy this…good for me…because I do! :)

This one is just ok…not much to it

Good with a bit of honey and lemon juice.

I am still not fond of fruit teas and I am suspicious of the “natural flavors”, but I’m working through a tea sampler that was given to me. I can handle this tea if it is very weak (1-2 min steep) and heavily sweetened.

Ack! Steeped too long.

Not my usual breakfast tea but it works in a pinch. I like English Breakfast tea because of it’s smoothness.

Great aroma, sweet taste. A little under-steeped and I forgot to pull the plunger up on the press (yea, that was stupid, I know) but still tasty nonetheless. Love how the strawberry is able to peek through the complexity of fruity flavors.

One of my favorite teas ever, almost out though.

Every day for breakfast, when I’m at home. Can’t do without it.

This smells a little different than the last time I steeped…after steeping (today) it reminds me of orange or grapefruit ‘skins’ prior or just after peeling…still nice…maybe even a hint of blossom, too.