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Love to mix this with chai and brewed with soy milk

This tea is the first – and so far, the only – Oolong tea that I have tried apart from some of the cheap and nasty brands they sell in some of the Chinese supermarkets around town. And in a few short months, this has become one of my absolute favourites although I haven’t got round to adding my tasting notes.

After rolling up my sleeves to clean and re-organise my tea cupboard thanks to an infestation of pantry moths – goodbye fruit teas! – I was looking forward to settling down with this. I strangely find this both revitalising for an afternoon pick me-up as well as soothing for a nightcap. As I only have the one teapot, I tend to have this tea once every couple of weeks, and then continually re-infuse before moving on to a different tea. So far, provided the tea is never scalded or over-infused at any point, I have managed to get up to five infusions.

The leaves are whole, medium sized (I’m guessing ‘souchong’) and rolled into fairly loose but even sized balls. I’m not sure which region the tea is from and I wouldn’t even be able to guess. After infusing, the tea can probably be descriped as olive-green with a distinct mint fragrance. There is a slight nuttiness and sweetness that contrasts nicely with the earthiness of the mint. The mint isn’t overly strong and the flavour seems to be more of the mint leaf rather than the more intense top-note menthol flavour of oil/flavouring. Even after a couple of infusions, the mint is still present but the tea does become sweeter and the nuttiness more intense.

I must remember to add notes for the various infusions.

Aw, here’s the last of this for a while… I think I’ll wait until autumn to restock a pu-erh, though I wonder if I’ll miss it! This has been so delicious right through three steeps each scoop.

And to think I was looking out the window at the sun yesterday morning and thinking about iced tea! Cold and overcast today, meaning a few cups of pu-erh ginger fit into the picture quite nicely.

Full belly from dinner. Ginger tea for sleepies.

A gutsy, earthy tea with just a touch of ginger. Perfect wintry tea.

Love this in summer!its yummy because it isn’t overly sweet.

If you’ve never tried any green tea, this should definitely be your first one to try, as it’s a good introduction into the world of tea.

Steepings: On T2’s website, it says to use 3-4 “tears” into a cup and brew for 7 minutes. Personally I’ve never tried that, if you have let me know how it tastes.

Teapot – I’d suggest use more than 3-4 “tears” depending on the size of your teapot, don’t be afraid to use a couple more than 8, especially if your planning on drinking more than 1 cup and resteeping it. Trying combining a mix of 80% boiling and 20% tap water. That’s how I like it, but of course try using all boiling water and see if you like that.

Food – You can drink this with Yum cha or any asian cuisine, if you really want to mix things up, trying it with nachos ;-). This tea is also perfect on it’s own as well.

Overall rating – 4/5

What a delicious surprise. Would never have selected liquorice, but delighted to have discovered it through friends. Enjoyed this at the very end of the evening.

Beautiful and refreshing, a pleasant fruity fragrance and a smooth, almost minty aftertaste.
Warming in winter but also light enough to be enjoyed in summer. Although i wouldnt drink it daily, it is definately a tea worth having on my shelf.

Finished this off via cold brews full of juicy berry flavours! Happy happy tea. Me likey. But I’ve got one too many flavoured blacks to get through so I probably won’t restock this for a while…

I hadn’t opened this tin for a while, so yesterday morning I was pleasantly surprised to open it and find that I’m a lot closer to another sipdown here than I thought! Hot damn, I may actually get these unopened boxes opened before the year’s out, after all…

I say yesterday morning because I cold brewed this in the fridge overnight and drank it today. So tasty! I really love this, still! I’ve refilled the tea bottle for another overnight cold brew but I may be wasting my time, I forgot that black tea’s more of a one hit wonder than green. Or maybe cold brews are different; it’s been a while since I went cold crazy. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow…

And in the meantime I’m gonna start another cold brew to inch closer to sipdown.

Ahhhhhh my Butiki order is here!!!!!!!!

But I’m way too overwhelmed so I’m just drinking a cold brew I prepared earlier while I add these nineteen teas to my cupboard.

Also I have a cold virus and don’t want my poor senses to affect the deliciousness of what’s to come, BUT I don’t know how long I’ll be able to hold out.

Yep, sorted. Splash of milk, no sugar required. A+ brekky blend.

I got a whole bunch of this from my friend in our IRL swap the other week so I figured it was time for me to open the box I bought a few months ago too.

Breakfast tea today! It’s a very sweet and berryful tea (did I just steal that word from my previous review?), I overbrewed slightly but fixed with milk and sugar.

VERY sweet and possibly too much so for a breakfast tea. Maybe I’ll try again with no sugar, just milk. Yes, I will. Good.

Still rating 85 because I like this the most of all T2’s breakfast teas.

An awesomely berryful black tea. Only have a sample of this but I’m going to have to pick up a box, I think this may be my favourite City Breakfast tea!