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I got a cup of this tea at Teavana today while I was at the mall. Since I didn’t make it, I included the steep time and temperature from their brochure.
It didn’t really taste like white tea which was different. It really tasted like white tea mixed with a floral oolong but not enough elements of either so you might not know what you were drinking if you were blind-folded. I watched it being steeped for me so I know I got the pearls. They are really neat-looking and almost look like little tiny balls of yarn because of how tightly they are rolled.
This is not a sweet or creamy white tea,,,which most of the ones I have tried have a nice, subtle sweet undertone. I think I was expecting that white tea accent that I am used to and this pearl tea has more of an earthy and very minerally undertone which was very new to me in a white tea :)