377 Tasting Notes
Very strong, smoky, ashen and wooden aroma.
Really strong, bitter, assertive taste, gives the instant stimulating kick to the head.
I wouldn’t like to drink it as everyday yerba mate, but sporadically it’s great.
Flavors: Ash, Bitter, Smoke, Wood
Preparation
Strong aroma, with a lot of lemon and harsh, spicy ginger tones.
A lot of ginger in taste, but sadly more for taste than for spicyness, solid citrus peel undertones, barely a hint of licorice (which is good, because it doesn’t dominate).
Overtall, pretty decent, expecially for Pickwick.
Flavors: Citrus, Citrus Zest, Ginger, Spicy
Preparation
Strong peach aroma with subtle notes of the base white tea and delicate flower notes.
The taste is very fruity, with plenty of peach notes, but there is no sweetness in it. You can feel slight bitterness, nice flower undertones (jasmine mainly) and slight astringency.
Really good, as all the Exotic Teapot teas I tried.
Flavors: Astringent, Bitter, Floral, Flowers, Fruity, Jasmine, Peach
Preparation
Strong chocolate and caramel aroma, with solid, malty black tea base.
The taste is not that good. I generally like Fredsted teas, but this one tastes like a steeped cardboard – bland, watery, with artificial flavouring.
Flavors: Cardboard
Preparation
Very balanced, complex taste, with subtle orange notes, base white flower tea in the background, slight floral aromas (mainly jasmine) and overall refreshing, soothing quality.
Flavors: Citrus, Floral, Jasmine, Orange, Straw
Preparation
Average level of the corporate and bag-packed black tea.
Not much in aroma department.
Slight earthy and malty notes in taste, it certainly isn’t strong. Just an unobtrusive cheap tea that accompanied work quite well.
Flavors: Earth, Malt
Preparation
Gunpowder beads expand wonderfully, giving reddish hue.
Beautiful aroma, with plenty of jasmine and earthy notes.
Assertive, earthy taste, with distinct astringency and slight bitterness.
Really good tea. Too bad it’s probably very hard to find. Mine was brought to me as the gift from Taiwan.
Flavors: Astringent, Bitter, Earth, Jasmine
Preparation
The visual effect of a blooming flower is overwhelming, but the tea itself really takes time to brew and enjoy, because at first it’s very watery and disappointing.
It took about fifteen minutes for the strong aroma to develop. Nice sweetish strawberry and grassy notes of the base white tea, plus subtle flowery aromas from jasmine and rose..
The taste is slightly sour, very fresh, with strong strawberry notes and good-quality white tea in the background.
Probably the second steep, after unraveling all the threads, is going to be even more rewarding.
Flavors: Flowers, Freshly Cut Grass, Jasmine, Rose, Sour, Straw, Strawberry