Primula Tea

I really liked this one. It’s light but sweet without needing any sugar, and I love looking at the flower. This was an old, old sample but it held up very well. Wish I had more of it for special occasions, have one left.

Pleasant and very mild. Requires longer steeping than most greens.

I have not opened it and thank god I didn’t. I am deathly allergic to Marigolds and this should be noted on the package or at least by this website

SHAME ON STEEPSTER BUT A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE USER WHO POSTED THE INGREDIENTS.

Sweeter than most jasmine blends, even when steeped for a strong tea. The flower opens with a purple bloom that fades to pink as the tea steeps. The leaves and petals did not separate from the bloom even under the flow of boiling water.

I love all of these flowering teas from Primula. I made this one with my boyfriend, and then iced the rest of it and brought it to work the next day. Lovely green tea with jasmine. I don’t really drink it for the flavor, but for the aesthetic experience of watching it steep.

I have had such a major headache the last few days that I haven’t cared much about writing tasting notes or even drinking new tea. It finally seems to have subsided so I am starting small.

This has a listing already under Primula but that one said it was a black tea. This one is green tea with jasmine. The flower is pretty enough but too tall for my 15 oz pot. The green tea is not tied as attractively as I normally see in these things but at least it did not fall apart. The taste is awfully light. Maybe this one is way pat its prime. Besides a light jasmine there is another note that tastes like globe amaranth to me, even if there is none present. I do not like globe amaranth. Fortunately that flavor is not so present as to prevent me from drinking the pot.

Kind of pretty but if you are really looking for a conversation piece, serve jasmine dragon pearls instead.

Primula blooming teas are kind of hit and miss with me. This one I actually enjoyed. The flavor is light and sweet jasmine with the green tea also being soft but pleasant. I cannot single out the nasturtium flower taste wise. The display is not amazing but it is pretty. The tea is lightly tinted green. I don’t care for blooming teas that belt you with flavor because most of them are just barely drinkable. This one, while it was not outstanding, it also had nothing off putting in the taste. Strange as it may sound based on what I wrote, this may be my favorite from Primula.

Forgot to review this when I had it a few weeks ago. From what I remember it wasn’t actually too bad, blooming teas don’t always get the best reviews. I forget the timing but I think I re-steeped it at least once. It had a nice light fruity flavor, I think it said pomegranate on the bag but others have mentioned jasmine? Not sure, definitely said guilded lotus on the package. It did a fine job of de-stressing me after my midterms.

I have spent most the day hunched over my perler boards spriting out gifts for people, now that I am stretched out in bed, propped up on a pile of pillows I can certainly say I am a happier person. I plan on spending the rest of my evening watching Let’s Play videos, sipping tea, and nibbling on snacks before I inevitably fall asleep. This of course, has nothing to do with the tea I am reviewing today!

Wild Flowers Blooming Tea by Primula is a blooming tea made from Chinese Green tea, Jasmine and Globe Amaranth flowers. The aroma of this tea is all flowers, intensely heady jasmine flower aroma drifts out of this interesting little ball of green. There is also a mild hint of earthiness, but the green tea is mostly indistinguishable and took some serious sniffing before I noticed the barest hint of vegetal.

Steeping the tea is an experience, and lets face it, the real reason we are all here. Watching the ball of tea bloom into a spiky flowered ball (that will forever vaguely remind me of Cthulhu but I am a nut) is an extremely enjoyable experience. The aroma is entirely jasmine flowers, which is all fine and dandy but not really nuanced. It smells like one very specific flower, no tea or other notes, just jasmine. The liquid without the leaves is the same, just jasmine.

The taste is heady jasmine and a touch of sweetness and the barest touch of vegetal green. It is an unremarkable drink with a beautiful viewing experience. There is a reason that I pull this tea out at events where there are no tea drinkers, it provides a wonderful show and a pleasant warm drink to sip on. I wish the base green tea had a stronger flavor, I think it if were it could knock my socks off, but since it isn’t I will just continue using this tea mostly as a visual treat to impress guests with.

For blog and photos: http://ramblingbutterflythoughts.blogspot.com/2013/12/primula-wild-flower-blooming-tea-tea.html

These blooming teas are just an absolute delight to the senses. They smell beautiful, they look beautiful as they open, and the taste is simply wonderful- floral, and very rich and satisfying. The tea is also delicious cold, if you don’t feel like consuming the whole pot of it in one sitting.

Making a pot of this tea is a sure way to win new friends and strengthen previous friendships! It’s an experience worth having. A beautiful invention!

Tea: Flower Basket Green Tea with Vanilla

I dropped the tea ball into my glass tumbler and poured boiling water over it. As it steeped it had a very light vanilla scent. The liquor was a light golden color. When I tasted it I expected vanilla but it actually just tasted like a light green tea. It has an astringent mouth feel and aftertaste. Not too bad, not too good.

My first tasting note but I’ll do my best to describe what I taste. ;P

Tea: Primula Guilded Lotus Green tea with Pomegranate flavoring.

I steeped this tea for 5 min in boiling water. The bloom opened up fairly quickly, probably within 3-4 minutes. Instead of preparing this in a teapot I used a clear glass mug. I also warmed the mug before brewing.

Now onto the tea. As soon as I poured in the water I could smell pomegranate and faint remnants of green tea. First sip was very much pomegranate. As I drank more I could start to taste the green tea more, and also a floral hint (from the flower, I assume). This also has a natural sweetness to it. Very light feeling in my mouth with a bit of a dry bite after swallowing.

Like I said I’m new to tasting so that’s all I have for now!
Cheers!

I totally forgot I had this! I got this in a set for Christmas last year. It came with a glass tea pot and 12 flowering teas. I love flowering teas! They are so beautiful. This was perfect for the mood I was in. I had a ton of sugar today so something light and far away from sugary-sweet seemed just right.
The red flower is very pretty. The flavor is very floral and light. It is lacking a little bit but hey, it fits for right now.

Another tea that’s been great to do some blending experiments with! This is a solid green tea with a nice nutty overtone.

A pretty basic white tea, which has served me well for blending experiments heh heh! I feel like this white tea isn’t as sweet as I expect a plain white tea to be, but it’s not bad.

I bought a sampler pack of Primula’s blooming teas awhile back – they all taste the same, but they bloom in different configurations. And they’re not bad teas. Just loose-leaf, I wouldn’t buy them, but they’re nice to show off for guests, and I enjoy sitting in class with my double-walled glass travel mug blooming one of these. Okay, maybe I’m a tea snob… I prefer the term “enthusiast.”
It’s a very light jasmine taste, and it’s great that I’ve never had any trouble with oversteeping, since I leave the ball in the bottom of the cup while I drink and sometimes it steeps for upwards of 30 minutes. I probably will buy them again, just because they’re not especially expensive and they’re cool to show to company. The jasmine flavoring is wonderfully light too. So many companies scent it so strongly that you lose the flavor of the tea itself.

After steeping for 5 minutes (water at 180°F), the bulb did not completely open and the flavor is very light. I can taste the sweetness of jasmine as well as the sweetness of the green tea. Overall a pleasant tea experience, not my favorite flowering tea but it’s certainly not horrible either.

The other reviewers didn’t like this near as much as I did. I greatly appreciate there was no globe amaranth in this. It is the hibiscus of flowering teas IMHO. I did three mugs today. I could drink this one often. Usually I put a nearly identical review on here and my blog. Today I put a more detailed version on the blog. I don’t know how to code a link so I will just post it as a shameless plug. http://theeverdayteablog.blogspot.com/2012/03/primula-floral-passion.html