12 Tasting Notes

80

i cold brewed this and the apple scent is delightful. however i don’t taste much of the green tea beneath — but that isn’t really a problem, because i like the apple so much. I will try hot brewing this later and see how it compares.

Flavors: Apple

Preparation
Iced 8 min or more

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97
drank Piccolo by Lupicia
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contrary to a lot of the other reviewers, I really liked this tea and didn’t find the taste to be too medicinal or sweet — it definitely smells very strong, but once steeped the flavor is a good balance between the mellow woodiness or rooibos and the fruity flavors.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 g 10 OZ / 300 ML

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67

just get rid of the dried apples, blend with another non-sweet rooibos, and then its decent!

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90
drank Sencha "Chiran" by Lupicia
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scent of sweet potatoes, taste of nori, astringent yet not bitter.

Flavors: Seaweed, Sweet Potatoes, Toasted, Umami

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 1 min, 15 sec 3 g 4 OZ / 118 ML

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75

a bit too dusty/bitter tasting for me, but it smells wonderful — flowery, sweet, and after three steepings i ate the leaves with salmon furikake (wish i had rice as well) and that was wonderful. it’s a bit too light with the 160F temperature so i went up closer to 180 for shorter steepings, which is when i got a stronger astringency and vegetal taste.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 0 min, 30 sec 4 tsp 6 OZ / 177 ML

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95
drank Coco Chai Rooibos by DAVIDsTEA
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has a sweet smell but a robust spicy rooibos chai taste. warming. should’ve gotten more of this instead of the cinnamon rooibos chai. was afraid of coconut but didn’t taste much.

Flavors: Cinnamon, Ginger, Peppercorn, Rooibos

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 7 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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69
drank Super Ginger (Organic) by DAVIDsTEA
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Yes, very gingery. However there is very little green rooibos taste and I think I could produce a better tea just boiling ginger on my own. There’s also a weird sweet smell that is a little bit savory/soup-like, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.

Flavors: Chicken Soup, Ginger, Peppercorn

Preparation
Boiling

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39

I’m not a really big fan of the tart hibiscus+pomegranate taste. Vanilla flavor feels a bit artifical.

Flavors: Dust, Hibiscus, Rooibos, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 0 sec

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59

A little too dusty, not strong enough ginger, don’t care for the vague peachiness.

Flavors: Dust, Ginger, Peach, Rooibos

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 0 sec

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90
drank Bai Mu Dan by Samovar
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I don’t drink white teas often, so I don’t have much to compare this to. But it was very light and substantive at the same time. I had it at a Cafe Venetia and unfortunately they oversteeped it a bit, and my initial cup was a little too astringent, but the second steeping was just right.

Flavors: Corn Husk, Walnut

Preparation
Boiling

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half-taiwanese half-korean american homosexual transgender theory-oriented undergraduate student studying japanese language and literature.

particular to japanese green teas and red rooibos, wants to explore oolongs, white teas, and chai further.

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