412 Tasting Notes
Dark, rich colour.
The smell is quite strong, clear pu-erh notes with solid earthiness.
The taste is surprisingly good given that the tea is of a cheap variety and packaged in tea-bags. Just what you can expct from an average pu-erh.
Flavors: Earth
Preparation
Strong earthy aroma. And besides it? I don’t know whether I smell a very, very subtle jasmine note, or am I just imagining it, knowing that it allegedly should be present…
The taste is quite bland, very mellow, rather dusty, again with only subtle or none jasmine.
After drinking this so called tea for a while I can state, that the jasmine is present after all, but it’s barely noticeable. Creating such crap is an achievement in itself even for Pickwick.
Flavors: Dust, Earth, Jasmine
Preparation
Very strong aroma with a lot of mango, slight lemon and subtle white tea notes in the background.
Slightly sweet, very fruity taste, with dominance of mango and only subtle lemon. Very slight white tea bitterness in the aftertaste.
Refreshing and nice. Especially good as a cold brew on a hot sunny day.
Flavors: Grass, Lemon, Mango
Preparation
Strong, sweet flavour that really reminds of blueberry muffins, seems pretty natural.
Slightly sweet in taste, with a lot of fruity and some biscuity notes, subtle earthy aromas from base tea in the background.
All in all it’s pretty good, but nothing extraordinary.
Flavors: Blueberry, Cake, Earth
Preparation
Smells like roasted banana sprinkled with powdered cocoa. rather artificial but quite warming.
Tastes definitely more like pear and the cocoa fortunately turned more into chocolate. Some earthy and malty notes from the base tea are also present.
All in all it’s not a bad one. Too artificial but soothing and warming.
Flavors: Chocolate, Cocoa, Earth, Malt, Pear
Preparation
A lot of ginger in aroma, slight lemon notes.
Very gingery in taste, very spicy, with only subtle lemon notes and o tiny bit of licorice.
Very warming, quite soothing. Not bad.
Flavors: Ginger, Grass, Lemon, Lemon Zest
Preparation
Very strong cocoa aroma, subtle mint notes, a lot of spices in the background. Energetic bouquet.
The taste is quite mellow, rather watery, with a slight ginger spicyness being the most discernible aspect. The result is simply boring, not minty enough to contrast the cocoa background.
Flavors: Cardamom, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Clove, Cocoa, Ginger, Spearmint
Preparation
Surprisingly rich and fresh smell after opening the box. After brewing the aroma is still strong, with nice notes of bergamot, solid citrus and earthy base tea in the background.
It tastes more like one could expect from Lipton. Bergamot notes are present, as well as slight citrusy ones, but the base tea is shallow, bland, without character.
Generally drinkable, but it smells much better that tastes.
Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Earth