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A good long jing is its own reward. With so many impostors out there…its a rare treat to find one that lives up to the hype.

I tasted some delicious buttered asparagus. Crisp and clean, leaves a delicious full mouth feel that is quite sweet. Sweet floral…that I can’t quite place. This is a tea that you could easily drink all day and be lost in the taste.

I love the Amba Tea Estate, and Camellia Sinensis has a fresh version.

Delicious wintergreen cherry taste to it, with a honey sweetness tempered with the malty ceylon base.

This is a very nice, high grade, Nilgiri tea. Beautiful aroma when I opened the bag, tea had a softer taste than I expected. Umami and wintergreen taste with a subtle hint of freshly cut grass. Fresh green pepper (before it has been dried).

This is the most passable of the three samples I received. It really tastes nothing like Gingerbread to me. But if I completely disregard that…

I think this one is alright? The problem is that there isn’t enough to brew a taste.

I’d gotten one of their sample packets, and so after reading Steepster, I cut the quantity of water I normally use. Nope, tastes of nothing. Smells alright though.

ohhhh boy.

So I’m not a flavored tea fan. That being said, I can appreciate them sometimes, especially if the flavoring compliments the nature of the tea. That is an art, a talent, requires true insight into both the tea and the flavor.

This? It is pure crap. It tastes like artificial maple syrup. I can’t taste any tea, just “sugar”.

**edit 1/10/14

Yuck. So a day later and my tea pot still smells of this disgusting tea. Note to self- never buy a flavored tea from David’s Tea again.

Thanks DCS for the sample!

This is a good tea, and I should rank it higher, because despite being in a tea bag it was quite lovely. My problem however was that it did not taste anything like an Oriental Beauty to me.

It does have some subtle hints of stone fruit and a nectar like sweetness. It is a pleasant tea to drink…I’m just fairly confident that it is not an Oriental Beauty (or “premium grade”)

This was an interesting tea. I know Vietnam gets loads of grief about their tea, but you can really find some gems among them. Its not really a complex oolong, but does have a nice soft vegetal buttery taste. Think of an oolong you would get in a decent dim sum restaurant.

If I had a bone to pick with this tea is calling it Tung Ting. Quit comparing this tea to Taiwan and let it stand on its own. No need to cast it in the shadow of Taiwan.

This tea smelled amazing…with a taste that flat out let down. Stale hay, with maybe a hint of stone fruit.

It looked beautiful, and smelled great…the taste just wasn’t there.

This tea is alright for what it is, a Japanese green tea. The reason for a lower rating is that it is supposed to be a Gyokuro.

This tea had the complexity of an average sencha, and didn’t really develop much beyond. Though this might be because I made it in the traditional method of quick brews.