338 Tasting Notes
Continuing on my German tea tasting adventure! This tea has a mild minty aroma. As for the taste, peppermint certainly stands out among all other herbs but even so its taste is rather weak… not a very flavourful tea I must say. The addition of liquorice root is a slightly special touch to this otherwise completely unremarkable tea; it produces a pleasantly sweet aftertaste which saves the tea from being a total disappointment.
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A fairly complicated tea to me… the taste is unfamiliar and rather hard to describe. Perhaps it’s because I have never tried anything like lemongrass + tea before. I can’t recognize any fruity flavour in this honey-brown liquor, instead the notes I can get are cardamom and ginger, with a faint hint of cinnamon. The spiciness is, fortunately, only mellow despite the presence of many spices. While I don’t find this tea particularly uplifting, it will do a good job in warming you up in a cold morning. Perhaps that’s why the tea company describes this tea as “like sipping sunshine”?
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Bought this tea in a market in Augsburg, Germany. As I couldn’t read German, I had no idea about its ingredients when I bought it, but I had very high hope for it cos it had a really lovely, fresh apple aroma when dry. Sadly, it has turned out to be a let-down. The tea is very light and has a very faint yellowish green colour. I can barely get any apple flavour out of it; the major note is lemongrass instead. Not for anyone who wants a fruity or sweet cuppa, but worth a try if you like exotic or herbal tea because it tastes like summer in Thailand.
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I can’t imagine a worse tea. I totally disagree with the description above because there is neither strawberry-raspberry flavour nor anything fine about this tea!!! It’s very acidic and kinda tastes like rotten tomatoes. Yuck!
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Ew nasty! I wonder if it’s hibiscus that’s causing it to taste like that – a lot of bagged teas use hibiscus as cheap way to try and replicate fruit flavours.
This tea has a deep red colour attributable to hibiscus and rosehips rather than “blood orange” (cos the ingredients do not contain any real blood orange). As for the taste, I’d say it’s like those fizzy vitamin C tablets… or over-the-counter cold remedy drink. It’s not so bad that I would immediately pour it down the drain, but I don’t think I want another cup.
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Eilles is one of the greatest finds in my recent trip to Germany. It’s said to be one of the most traditional brands for fine gourmet products in Germany, and even King Ludwig II was one of their first aficionados! And after trying this tea I start to understand why even the king was a fan. Right from the very beginning it makes you fall in love with its candy-sweet aroma. Then – wow – you immediately notice that each sip is bursting with fruity (though it’s kinda like strawberry rather than dragon fruit/kiwi/raspberry) flavour! Enjoy the clean and refreshing taste of the tea leaves at the same time. Mmmm just so yummy!!
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This tea is not bad. The mint and bergamot flavours are well-balanced, but I was expecting something more exciting and brilliant as this is after all, from Mariage Freres! If you just want a good after-dinner mint tea, go for it; but if you want to have the real Mariage Freres experience, Marco Polo or Opera will be the choice.