15257 Tasting Notes
This tea smells like a plum…one of those plums that you know is just going to burst when you bite into it and leak juice all over your face. I just wish it tasted as delicious. Azzrian sent me this sample for which I am totally grateful :) I’m thinking maybe I brewed it a little hot so I’d like to give it a try changing the brewing parameters before I rate it – maybe even do a cold brew.
All that being said, it’s not a bad tasting tea…the scent just doesn’t jive with the taste :)
So I have zero clue of how to do this well but here goes nothing. Im trying this in small steeps but totally just winging the temperature and amount of tea haha. Mostly I figured this is a decent way to keep me drinking tonight for a bit.
First steep I’m not even sure how to describe the smell coming off this tea. Hell I’m not even sure how to describe the tea. It’s not the green that I’m used to but it’s a really refreshing tea.
Second steep: did I mention the beautiful color of this tea? It’s a great yellow…one I’d almost think about painting my bathroom. The other half didn’t like this steep. This one is less vegetal to me…like there are other things hiding there that haven’t come out yet….
Third steep: this one is my favourite…not sure what the earlier taste is but that’s now gone and I’m left with a really fresh subtle green.
I just wrote something for my blog (later) on this and my steeps were in a gaiwan and INSTANT like no time! I say it all the time. I never brew tea without going to the website’s and checking with the people who tell how to time it and how much to use. So, 3-4 grams in 4oz container 190f water for 10 seconds increasing a second or so. (Spring was 3 seconds) If you go longer you might get bitter tea.
Bonnie – yeah I went to the site, especially for verdant teas, I always double check. I just have no gaiwan and haven’t figured out a good way to do small steeps with the tools that I have on hand, this worked out alright though. I’m hoping I find a nice little gaiwan on vacation that I can bring back so it’ll be associated with vacation memories AND be functional and wonderful lol
You can use a mug and saucer which works well. I’ve done that. A smaller mug is about 8oz. so half is 4oz. I think I sounded snooty and didn’t mean to. Sorry. I hate wasting tea myself.
Haha you didn’t sound snooty Bonnie. I’m with you on the wasting tea. I got a bunch more steeps out of this one tonight, just got distracted from writing. If I had a saucer that would work lol. My apart,ent is a little ghetto these days. I’m sure I’ll resort to a tupperware lid or something eventually haha
I steeped this in some milk for 6 hours and then froze half…experimenting. Cooked with some too.
So I can totally understand why people love this tea. that being said, it’s not my favorite I mostly wanted to try this before I end up ordering the s’mores tea from Della Terra for comparisons sake evenif I can’t ever get this tea again haha. It’s not a bad tea..it’s just a bit weird for my taste. It might have sometig to do with the fact that I ate all of the mini marshmallows out of my sample before I brewed the tea grin anyway there’s chocolate in here, and hints of the sticky marshmallowy goo but I’m not quite getting the graham cracker taste. Any interesting tea to say the least :)
As far as teas with floral notes go, this one isn’t too bad. The floral notes aren’t super noticeable but they’re there. :) I’m not sure it would become a staple in my house ever but I do like the green tea with cherry notes. Thanks for the sample indigobloom happy to have tried this one.
Had just enough left for another cup of this so I tossed this in to do a short cold brew for an after workout drink. I’m really living being able to come home from the gym and have a glass of col brewed tea. I don’t need any more than the one cup but it’s a nice way to have a bit of flavour without having to drink juice or anything.
So admittedly I have had zero tea today until now. That’s largely due to the fact that for whatever reason, I managed to get seriously drunk last night, like I haven’t since 1997. Haha I really don’t drink a lot, maybe a glass of wine or a cocktail once every 3 weeks. But what I really wanted today? Was a matcha smoothie. So needless to say, my first drink of the day besides lots and lots of water was a matcha smoothie. I have zero clue what I’m doing but I tossed in a frozen banana, some frozen peaches, milk some ice and a tsp of caramel matcha dn blended! Lt me tell you, besides the weird greens color that’s a little disturbing to drink it is delicious!!! Caramel, peach smoothie. Mmmmm really looking forward to playing with more matcha :)
This is a really nice fruity tea for this afternoon. Another sample from Indigobloom – i’m trying to use the long weekend to get through another slew of my samples but that’s hard to do with the new tea that came in on friday! Anyway this is a really delightful berry tea. I prepared this hot, but i could totally see doing this as a cold brew tea, adding some lemonade and having it rock!
Yay for after gym workout treat! I still suck at preparing this matcha but that doesn’t take away how delicious and amazing it is. Now I just have to decide what my next flavour(s) are going to be. All I know for certain is that I’m happy to promote red leaf for matcha any day!
