68 Tasting Notes

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drank Luscious Watermelon by DAVIDsTEA
68 tasting notes

The dried mix smells amazingly like melons which made me buy it without hesitation. However, steeped it just tastes like apples. I had my share of kompot in childhood days and that’s exactly what it tastes like. I might’ve put too little of the mix, but when it was steeped it was a full infuser (in a 1L pot). I am not saying I don’t like it, its very refreshing (and I wanna try other summer collection teas), but it’s not what I expected. I will try it perhaps with stronger brew and not in the morning just after waking up, but for now it gets a weird face rating

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68
drank Kenyan Tinderet by DAVIDsTEA
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Dry leaves look really cool and awesome. Smell is gentle, sort of like light golden monkey. I got a cup of it, so maybe it’s due to paper teabag, but I find it rather light tea or maybe I am just used to stronger/more flavorful blacks. However, this tea has an amazing long aftertaste, I think it would be a great morning tea. Both smell and especially a taste has an interesting note to it, something like allspice or perhaps cardamon, its subtle.

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80

This tea is very light both in aroma and taste (as far as the color goes, it’s actually somewhat dark, I’ve seen much lighter greens). This tea is kind of smoky and really mellow. It reminds me of smoked almonds or kippered herring (the smoke profile of course, it’s not fishy at all).

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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86

Dry leaves are of mixed green and light brown color. Steeped liquor turned out to be a slightly darked than usual for oolong color. Smell is reminiscent of Tie Guan Yin, very orchid like. Taste wise it’s a mix of tie guan yin, da hung pao and green tea, very pleasant mix.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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80

It’s good as a breakfast tea, not too astringent or malty, very light, definitely agree on Darjeeling taste (which is understandable given it’s an English Breakfast). Has a pleasant aftertaste too.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 0 sec

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85

First off, thanks chinesetea-shop.com for a generous sample.

Dry leaves are fuzzy, look very gentle and smell a bit malty. Steeped you can get notes of nuttiness with a baked potato skin aroma. Leaves are very tiny and uniform.

Liquor is of bright light yellow-green color, cloudy and carries on the aroma of the leaves with ever slight smokiness.

Taste is slightly creamy, slightly bitter and nutty, a bit of each flavor from high mountain oolong and dragon well. Perhaps more roasty and a little bit smoky. All in all a great green tea, goes well on usual grey Sat morning.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 1 min, 30 sec

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100
drank Dog Brain Tribute by Tea Dynasty
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This is first tea I rate at a 100 because it’s just that darn good.

Dry leaves are ranging from dark green to pale green color, snail like in form, very fuzzy, in fact the whole tin is covered in pollen like substance from it. The leaves look very gentle. Dry leaves smell fresh, little grassy and flowery.

Steeped it’s of very pale yellow color, it smells and tastes nutty and creamy and it’s very mellow. It’s a gentle green tea with no bitterness at all.

It was somewhat pricey, I can’t find any information on it on Google (seems like the name is just a literal translation from Chinese, maybe this sort goes by other name) and the fact that it’s so covered in mystery only makes it that much better.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 2 min, 0 sec
Angrboda

That is certainly the most bizarre tea name I’ve ever seen! O.O

Indigobloom

I asked about it in the store, the guy neglected to bring it out, claiming that it was too expensive. How much was it?

Daniil

I got it absolutely randomly actually, I was tasting Dragonwell and I loved it so I wanted to pick up some green to go home with me.

The guy recommended I try this dog brain tribute tea. They didn’t even have it in a tin, he just opened a new bag of it (relatively small as I’ve seen the bag Tie Guan Yin came in and it was at least 3 times as big) but he did mention that it’s somewhat rare or something, and that they don’t get it often.

I don’t actually remember what the price was, but I remember that I had to get 25g as it was some big sum and I just wanted to taste it. I wanna say around $35/50g, hope it’s not too off.

I am a little dumbfounded that they didn’t tell you the price though, the guy that I always see there is VERY friendly and I can’t imagine him pulling off a stunt like this.

How did you learn about it? I never heard of it neither can I find it anywhere on Google, do you know if it goes by some other name?

Indigobloom

actually, it was from your post that I heard about it. I just HAD to ask about the amazing tea that got a 100 rating on this site :)
I think the sales guy new that I was in a rush, and on a budget. Next time though, I will ask if I can buy a cup of it.
That is really expensive tea. One day, I will buy a bag!

Daniil

@Indigobloom I stopped by Tea Dynasty yesterday and asked about the tea, it’s $30. And they do have it in stock. Ironically I just ran out of mine this morning, mixed it with T-Buds Dragonwell, not too bad of a mix actually heh.

Indigobloom

*sighs
I have so much tea in my cupboard… I can’t justify buying one so expensive. I can dream though!

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74
drank Rice Tuocha by Tea Dynasty
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I find this tea has a bologna after taste. It’s not really bad, just a little unusual. I guess it just has the same type of spice flavor, hence the simile.

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74
drank Rice Tuocha by Tea Dynasty
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I am not a big fan of dry tuocha smell, it smells overpoweringly like rice, but when it’s steeped it actually turns out to be a pretty yummy sheng puerh. It’s quite astringent and can get quite bitter if you oversteep it, but otherwise it’s pretty mellow bold tea. It seems to pack quite a punch as well, any time I drink it I get plenty a rush.

One thing I noticed that after steeping one tuocha literally only three times in my travel container it still smells like it after I have at least 4 other teas in it. It’s a peculiar experience, I don’t particularly like the smell of tea, but it tastes good to me. I am definitely interested in flavored puerhs now, so I’ll give this tea that, it awakened my curiosity beyond straight pu-erhs.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec

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90

Buttery, nutty, slightly bitter but instantly turns mellow with clean aftertaste. Very light yellow color of the liquor. Dragonwell is one of my all time favorite teas and this one doesn’t disappoint one bit. Company’s description fits tea’s palette perfectly.

Leaves dry and steeped are not too uniform and many of them are broken apart so it’s probably not the highest grade stuff, but it tastes good. For the price it’s certainly a great tea. Also, manager of the store was nice enough to give me a 20% discount on it too, which was very nice.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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I was always a huge fan of teas but my tastes changed constantly. Lately I am on the path of discovering Chinese teas, but not limiting myself to that. I am, however, favoring straight teas at this point.

I love pu-erh, oolongs are always a treat, learning about greens is delicious, absolutely neutral towards rooibos or herbals and black is always a yes. Incidentally any combination of the above is ok in a blended tea, which I like to have time to time.

« The first cup kisses away my thirst,
and my loneliness is quelled by the second.
The third gives insight worthy of ancient scrolls,
and the fourth exiles my troubles.
My body becomes lighter with the fifth,
and the sixth sends word from immortals.
But the seventh—oh the seventh cup—
if I drink you, a wind will hurry my wings
toward the sacred island. »

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