48 Tasting Notes
A very nice Japanese black tea with all the qualities you can expect from a high quality Japanese black tea, at once delicate and bold. A great morning or afternoon tea, the astringency is relatively low. The first infusion, bring some slight note of coffee, dark chocolate and baked apple. The second infusion, stars with a baked potato taste. At the second and third sip, after tasting the baked potato, the dark chocolate and baked apple flavours are revealed but with subtlety. Finally, everything is mixed together at the same amount intensity, the coffee notes are coming back and others flavour are now stronger.
Flavors: Apple, Apple Skins, Coffee, Dark Chocolate, Potato
Preparation
This tea is tasteless, I tried with different kind of bottle water, same results. Very disappointed. I even tried to brew with lower temperature with different amount of leaves. Conclusion: do not buy this tea, it a waste of money. Always the same stale taste that I can’t even describe how the single flavour taste.
Preparation
10 Seconds rinse. 1st Brew: 1 min. Smell like earthy moss. Gold and amber in colour. Poured in a glass cup. Taste like resin and earthy. The taste and warm sensation in my mouth disappear quickly. Medium dryness. Mild in flavours. 2nd Brew: 1 min. 45. Humidity feeling, warm moved to the back of my throat, stay a little bit longer but still disappear quickly. Slightly woody taste and feeling. 3rd Brew: 3 min. 45. Now it is more warmer in my mouth than at the back of my throat. Still, the warm sensation disappear quickly. More dryness. Woody notes, with more earthy flavour without the resin taste. Last Brew: 6 minutes. Taste dirt. Nice for an afternoon autumn day.
Flavors: Dirt, Earth, Resin, Wet Moss, Wood
Preparation
10 seconds rinse
First stepping 2 min. : A slight Tingling sensation with a subtle spicy taste – A mellow tea with a little sweetness. The soup can taste a little bit mushrooms, slightly malty and maybe leather.
Second stepping 3 min. : The malty flavour is stronger.
WATER USED: Nestlé Pure Life
Flavors: Leather, Malt, Mushrooms, Spicy, Sweet
Preparation
This is my third tasting for this tea cake.
Smell: Forest-like, a hint of burnt honey and tobacco.
1 Rinse, 1st brew: 2 min. 15 sec. : A bright earthy sweet and smooth tea. The aftertaste is pleasant — hint of honey. The flavour of this liquor is a little bit reminiscent of green tea.
Second brew : 3 min. 45 sec. : Smokey and bitter with a little bit of sweetness — odd combination. I may have over steeped the second brew. The bitterness going away while I’m drinking the tea. Now the smokiness is increasing as the tea cool.
WATER USED: Selection 100% Natural Spring Water
Flavors: Bitter, Earth, Honey, Smoke, Smooth, Sweet
Preparation
Smell resinous, earthy and a bit like brown sugar.
The colour of the liquor is a transparent brownish gold.
Western Style – 1 Rinse, 1st brew – 3 min. : Taste earthy green with a sweet black pepper resinous flavour. There are no flavours, at this point, that overwhelm the others — every flavours are expressed equally.
WATER USED: Selection 100% Spring Water
Flavors: Black Pepper, Earth, Green, Resin, Sweet
Preparation
Loose leaves put in a tea bag then poured in a glass tea cup. Liquor is medium opaque and like a brown sugar colour.
Brew #1 3 minutes: A sweet cocoa dark chocolate taste with a slight malty flavour. It is a smooth tea with just a bit of dryness.
Brew #2 4 minutes: A little bit citrusy with cocoa notes. Sweeter as the tea cool down but more dryness than the first brew. The citrusy notes disappear quickly as the liquor cool.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Citrusy, Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Malt, Smooth, Sweet
Preparation
Preparing another tea to help me finish my day. Just comeback from helping a neighbour and did some grocery, very cold temperature (-22C).
Loose leaves put inside a tea bag then poured in a tea glass. A dark-red brown opaque liquor. Smell mildly like bergamot.
A little bit malty with a medium bergamot flavour and I can definitely taste the black tea. A smooth earl-grey blend, with a hint of orange finish taste.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Bergamot, Malt, Orange
Preparation
A pale yellow-lime colour a bit cloudy with a little of small particles. A pleasent gentle creamy peachy vegetal smell.
Poured into a glass vessel
1st step 3 min. and 2nd step 3 min. 30 sec.
A juicy green mouthfeel, smooth and grassy-vegetal sweet-bitter tea. At the second sip, there is a trace of a nutty flavor. The tea change into a marine like taste and the grassy flavour doesn’t overwhelm — lightly dry.
At the second brew, it makes my hands, arms, chest, stomach warm and sweaty.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Bitter, Cut Grass, Green, Marine, Nutty, Smooth, Sweet, Vegetal
