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Very nice and very unique tea I keep having at an Italian restaurant here in Kyoto. Unfortunately they keep their teabags in a glass jar so I can never find out what brand it is but the tea itself is lovely with a definite but subtle pine flavor. I believe it also contains mint and some other root like substance but I can not place the taste exactly. It certainly keeps me coming back again and again.

Quite a delicious mix. White peach is very strong while Earlygrey could have been a bit stronger. I also did not like the amount of bitterness on the first brew but I think it was just my excessive steep time. Second brew of the same tea bag provided a very mellow white peach flavor tea.

Strong caramel and rum flavors and rooibus itself very faint, almost non existent. Makes a perfect night time dessert with a bit of milk.

Very nice black, has a strong sweet “dessert-like” flavor like an orange added to desserts (not to be confused with candied orange peel) very nice indeed.

Rose flavor very pronounced, peach taking a secondary seat in this taste concoction. Still makes for a pleasant early morning black.

Amazing flavor of melon with this black tea, it must really be my first melon tea. It was such a surprise and then I drank 5 cups one after the other, just could not get enough of it, pity the sample box only has one of each.

I am not able to pin the flavor. It tastes like a very mild black with no tannin bitterness at all and is nice with milk. Seems like a very light desert tea. Not unpleasant, but without being able to associate the flavor with something in my mind it seems like there is a mental gap that affects the tea drinking experience.

I remember liking this tea a lot the first time I tried it but this batch is definitely a sub par experience. The promise of spearmint and chamomile mix was not delivered right with neither spearmint nor chamomile recognizable and the whole mix tasting like “some herb” tea.

Except for chamomile the other 2 flavors are not very pronounced, but it is a nice chamomile blend nevertheless. I brewed the bag twice, second time around with some green tea added to the pot which made for a nice variation.

Very yummy. Earl Grey is my favorite tea and when mixed with the flavor of chocolate makes a great combination. I would like to have tasted more of the Bergamot in it but oh well, it is a good one nevertheless and the whole tea pot was gone in 20 minutes.