126 Tasting Notes
My friend sent this to me, she has a friend that sells it.
I had to look up neem, never heard of it. Apparently it is a miracle plant. Cures skin ailments, it’s a male contraceptive, it keeps your blood sugar stable and wards off diabetes, it can cure chicken pox by laying down on the leaves, it makes a mean curry, and you shouldn’t drink it if you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant. Man, that’s some crazy stuff! Now I wonder what my friend was trying to tell me when she sent this! haha!
So the bag (yes, bag. Forgive her, she doesn’t know. But it does also come loose leaf.) smells like when I walk into the big greenhouse in Golden Gate Park. Very floral, very lush. Not one particular flower, just a smell that is a mix of a lot of flowers, orchids, roses, tropical flowers.
Steeped, the liquid is dark dark, black tea. The scent is still there. In taste, the scent lends some to the flavor, but otherwise disappears. Which sounds disappointing at first, but really, I don’t know that I would like orchid tea. Orchids I love, they are beautiful, but don’t look like they would taste good.
I do like the mild flavor of this, the scent brings me back to my childhood always visiting that conservatory with my family and the rose garden outside. Good thing I’m not pregnant or trying to get pregnant. I have some neem nectar tea when I’m at work, so it’s a forgiving tea (I need that at work). I look forward to it every time!
My first tea from Teatulia, I can’t wait to try the rest!
This is so light in color, I wasn’t sure if I had gotten the right tea. I showed it to my mother, and even she thought it was very light looking for an oolong.
But the taste is nice and smooth. It leans toward the green side of oolong, I believe, it almost tastes like a green tea, but not with that something that comes with green tea, just a vegetal flavor. And there is almost a flower in it, not like jasmine or anything like that, just a sweetness in the scent that lends to the taste. But still, there seems to be a little missing. It’s good, but nothing to scream about. Maybe that’s just my mood lately, I want productivity and I want it NOW. :-) I think I can pull this out for mellow weekends. It’s mellow tea.
It’s tasty still, hot and iced, like I’ve been drinking the past couple of days. And man, those leaves look like my lawnmower bag after it’s all done steeping.
Had this all day today iced. I was almost giddy with excitement and fatigue brewing this last night so it would be cooled down and iced for today.
It’s perfect. Although I think I prefer it hot, iced is mighty fine as well.
Oh goodness gracious, if I could have this replace the blood in my body, I would be so so SO happy!
Still hoarding this one until I can find a replacement. But really, nothing replaces your first love, right? :-)
I’ve been drinking this for a few days now (not in a row) and I still can’t describe it. I thought I’ve had rooibos before, but in a bagged version. Although now that I taste this, I can’t actually say with any certainty that I’ve had rooibos before, and if I didn’t, what did I drink?
So anyway, I open up the bag and it looks and smells like tobacco from a cigar shop. Dry though, and the tea is a fine small size, the size that creates static cling and sticks to everything, like glitter does. After steeping, a very beautiful red-brown color, kind of like cheap garnets. I don’t like my garnets this color, but in my tea cup is acceptable!
The smell is weird to me, it is sweet, but not sugary sweet, and then there is a strong note that reminds me of…alcohol? The kind of smell that makes me react like I do when I smell wine. Maybe because I am allergic to alcohol, then I also sensitive to that smell and therefore react the way I do. My stomach gets tight and red sirens go off in my head.
(Yes this happens with all alcohol for me, even in food. I have had allergic reactions to Chicken Marsala and believe it or not, kombucha. But I still drink as much as the allergy will allow and I just drink in a bar where for some reason, I can’t smell any alcohol. Unless it’s wine, then I’m usually at a friend’s house, but I can’t smell it when I drink it. I will hold my breath and sip. Why hasn’t all this yet stopped me from drinking at all? Because I LOVE mojitos and red wine.)
So the taste is sweet, mild, I like it. I want to experience more rooiboses and I’m glad there is no caffeine, I’ve been enjoying these at night during the wind down to bedtime. Who knows, my rating may climb as I become more familiar with the roob.
Hmm, I think this is from Cafe Moto, only because all of the teas at my local coffee shop come from there, but I couldn’t find it on the Cafe Moto website. Unless they call it something different.
Anyway, this oolong is mild with a touch of sweetness that lingers. It is somewhere in the middle of green and black. I get a hint of something at the beginning, at that whiff right before you put the cup to your lips and the first moment it hits your taste buds. It’s like a malty? Or smoky? Not like LS, but maybe a hint of roasting? The taste is mellow definitely. But it’s hiding something, or it’s just something I cannot articulate today.
Hmm, I like it, it’s mild, probably just enough to get me through work tonight. Yet, not hop me up too much like that darn Zipfizz I had yesterday.
Tonight I made this into syrup and poured it over vanilla ice cream. SO good! My friend was licking it off the spoon. Really really good! And I didn’t even add in the suggested liqueur, Curacao.
I think pu-erh is quickly becoming my favorite black tea.
This one comes in those cute little discs, and fits in my tea ball perfectly.
Very smooth and mellow. Very rich in color and taste. There is a hint of something, I can’t tell what it is, something different than the other pu-erh I have, like a hint of a spice? I’m not sure if my taste buds are fooling me. Either way, I like it!
My first tea from Zen Tara, and it’s a winner!
A loan from a friend for my upset stomach yesterday after lunch.
It’s more gingery than the regular ginger tea from Yogi. I’m not tasting a lot of lemon really, but there is certainly a bite to it.
Perhaps because of my new favorite Lemon Ginger Oolong, I was hoping for something similar, but it’s almost all ginger.
Still, not bad and it helped my “stummy” as my friend called it.
My first tasting from my GM sampler pack!
So the “mushroomy” taste I got from the Keemun, I got it here too. So maybe this is what they call a “caramel” finish? It has the same aroma and smooth round mouth feel to it. So I’m concluding that it is a caramel, not a mushroom. I know, vastly different in the mind, but to my nose and tongue (and the memories that they have) it is the same. The tea also has a sweetness to it, a richness and depth to the flavor, not much of the berry note that was in the description. It’s yummy for sure, again not what I might go with every day. But it’s definitely getting better and better every time I taste this mushroomy caramel thing!
