One of the other places we went yesterday was Kusmi, since I’ve never been before. I have of course tried a handful of their teas, and ordered from them online – but it’s always a different experience seeing a tea place in person, and getting to interact with the teas/teaware they carry physically.
They were sampling this tea, so we of course gave it a try. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a white tea from them before? In fact, I don’t think I was aware that they carried white tea at all. The guy who gave us the sample seemed to be somewhat confused too, as he went back and forth several times between saying this was white tea and saying it was green tea. I honestly wasn’t totally sure, until I got home and looked up the tea on their website.
It was pretty good, especially for something coming from a prebrewed carafe – often teas that sit over a long period of time in those carafes or that are brewed in large quantities all at once can get a little… weird? I don’t know – not bad but just not great representations of the flavor of the tea when you brew it normally. I think maybe that happened with the base a little bit, as it definitely tasted far less delicate than a silver needle generally should taste, and was displaying a weird mix of flavor notes, such as black tea-esque malt notes? Sort of strange. The raspberry/rose were very nice though – both equally present and quite fragrant and well pronounced while still being smooth and not dipping into that weird perfumey/artificial sort of quality.
I liked the sample – though since it appeared this tea was only sold in a very large bulk amount I wasn’t quite interested in picking up that much of it. Though, I did end up buying a tin of the one other white tea they were carrying since it smelled really interesting to me.
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They do offer a white tea version of Anastasia, and their sister brand Løv Organic has some fruity white teas that are pretty tasty.
I bought the white Anastasia :) I may have had some of the white offerings from Lov? I didn’t realize they were tied to Kusmi until actually visiting the store, but I’ve had a handful of their teas in swaps before. Nothing that stands out in my mind, though.
They do offer a white tea version of Anastasia, and their sister brand Løv Organic has some fruity white teas that are pretty tasty.
I bought the white Anastasia :) I may have had some of the white offerings from Lov? I didn’t realize they were tied to Kusmi until actually visiting the store, but I’ve had a handful of their teas in swaps before. Nothing that stands out in my mind, though.