Rose Congou Green

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Fruit Green Blend
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Flavors
Floral, Rose, Sweet, Flowers
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180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 30 sec 8 oz / 236 ml

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Is there anything prettier than a rose-scented tea? This classic blend is just as romantic as a bouquet of flowers – and a whole lot tastier, too. Rose Congou teas are traditionally made with black tea, but we love mixing rose petals and rosehips with the subtle grassiness of Chinese green tea. The result is deliciously floral and delicately fruity, like walking through an English garden after a spring rain. No umbrella required.

Ingredients: Green tea, rosehips, rose petals, natural flavouring*.

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DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

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I’m doing a one week cleanse of sorts. Nothing too dramatic, just no salt, sugar, chemical preservatives, dairy or white rice/flour. It’s not for weight loss, just to curb junk food cravings and get back into healthy habits after a summer of indulgence (aka BBQ, fried foods, desserts, and beer). Luckily I can still drink tea, so I’m going to use this week to drink more green and white tea (the often neglected citizens of my cupboard).

I like a good rose tea once in a while, and this is a smooth, sweet cup. Thanks for the sample, Janelle. Unfortunately, it seems to be discontinued, aside from the 250g clearance web special, which I think will be way too much. But luckily Butiki just came out with a new rose tea, which sounds delicious. Ah well, when one door closes!

Tealizzy

That’s sad…they just sent me a sample of this in my last order…must be clearing out the samples!

Alysha

Yeah that’s strange…maybe they’re trying to promote the 250g sales as well. I liked this but that’s a huge commitment for something that I’ll just have once in a while!

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A delightful rose scented tea. The green tea tastes sweet and lush, with vegetative notes that are somewhere between grassy and vegetable, leaning a bit more toward grassy than vegetable.

The rose is very pleasant and floral. Not the right tea for someone who isn’t a fan of rose, but, if you like it … you should try this one!

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Nope, nope, nope, nope! I got this as a sample in my last order, and it’s like drinking straight perfume! Ick! Not for me. Not ruling out rose teas entirely though, because I have one with vanilla and caramel too, and it’s delightful. This one is not. :P

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This is the best rose tea that I’ve had so far, though I must admit that I am not an overall floral fan in food and drink. The grassy green notes blend nicely with the fragrant flower petals, though there is a touch of bite at the end of each steep. The bag states 3-4 minutes, but it might do better with 2. David’s must want me to like it as I get a sample with every order recently, but I’m okay with seeing it go. Sipdown!

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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So I ordered English Rose online from DavidsTea and I’ve actually never tried a floral tea so I picked up a 10g bag of this today at the store to prepare myself. It smells very pretty – just like a flower garden (what a surprise right?).

It smells and tastes like a rose garden. But I’m not quite sure I’m fully sold on drinking roses. Perhaps by the end of the cup it will grow on me more.

Preparation
3 min, 15 sec

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In first-world tragedies, I was making this tea for the first time, and I reached over my sink with the open packet when…oh… no… it fell from my hands into a bowl filled with water that was soaking in the sink. I fished it out right away and somehow convinced myself that the inside of the packet hadn’t gotten wet. But when I went to scoop some tea out, I learned the horrible truth.

So I made all of the tea.

I’ll be drinking this all day.

The dry tea (the packet was open because I was sniffing it) smelled like the Rose Petal Ice Cream that was served at my old high-school employer’s shop. That, in turn smelled like the rose pastilles in a mock-Victorian tin, sold at the General Store next door to the ice cream shop. My Northeastern Town liked to fancy itself quaint in the mid-90s, you see. Now it has a Dunkin Donuts and a Starbucks on the main street.

Anyway, I like this tea! If I were having a tea party, I’d definitely serve it. I’d make lemon frosted scones and serve them alongside, and invite all the nice ladies I know. We’d drink this outside (hmmm I have no patio furniture) and gossip and whatnot. Yeaaah that’s what I’d do.
The green tea really fades to the back; this is is sweet rose candy. It’s the rose counterpart to jasmine tea. Raising pinky

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Mercuryhime

I want to come that your tea party! lemon frosted scones sound perfect with this tea. :) That and baklava.

Lisbet

Ooooh tasty!

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“Like walking through an English garden after a spring rain.” — Precisely. As my British boss would say “super smashing lovely!”

I am a sucker for the smell of roses. Telling me that scent is edible, in the form of my favorite liquid beverage? I will tell you you have a heart of gold. This tea really is lovely. It is smooth, actually smells and tastes like what it is, and I think it’s beautiful. I’m sitting inside, the windows open, the rain coming down outside, and seriously, David’s Tea couldn’t be more bang on with the description of this tea!

The taste kind of reminds me of the British candies I used to love so much (back when I could find them), called Parma Violets.

I added nothing, and I won’t in the future either. This is a true, simple, beautiful, speak-for-itself kind of tea. Smashing darling, really!

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When I got up, I was hankering for a tea that I hadn’t tried yet, but when I went to look among my samples, nothing really jumped out, so with a sigh I reached for the small box of David’s Tea and was going to make ’Mom’s Apple Pie’ because I hadn’t had it in a while and wanted to see if maybe I liked it a bit more, but then a sample packet jumped out of the box as I took it down.

It was this tea. I have tried a few flowery teas, most of them I liked both smell and taste.

At 1st…I wasn’t sure about the taste. smell wise I thought it smelled divine, but taste…was just blah. But I wanted to at the very least finish it as I didn’t have the time to make another tea before work, so headed back to the kitchen to put more sugar in. I did put some sugar in before I brewed the tea, but I have been trying to reduce the amount of sugar that I use, (Without much luck.) and plus I’ve noticed that DT’s teas don’t seem to need as much sugar (Maybe due to the stevia that I hear is in many of their teas?)

Well putting more sugar in definitely woke this tea up. I could taste the sweet rose along with the green, up until now, most of the teas that I’ve had with rose in it has been a black tea base.

I would even go so far as to say that I would be inclined to order a bag of this, but it looks like David’s Tea has discontinued it. (Or possibly a seasonal.) so might be inclined to look for similar green teas with rose in it.

Flavors: Flowers

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 45 sec 1 tsp
Mercuryhime

I really enjoy this one most as a cold brew. It doesn’t take long either. Maybe 4 hours. :)

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I have to say I was very nervous to try this tea after very wishy washy reviews so I iced it for work. I’ve been trying to do a hot tea in the morning and an over night bold brew for the next afternoon for work. So 2 teas a day to lighten my load. Anyways this tea was very fragrant in its dry form. But surprisingly when I iced it it lost the overwhelming floral smell but the taste is lovely! I really like this iced, it is super refreshing, you definitely can taste the rose and I love the green paired with it. I believe that it is more suitable than a black tea with rose. I definitely give this the thumbs up, but I also love floral teas… It’s a really cool tea:)
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I love floral teas and Haven’t had much green tea lately so decided to try the one that always seems to be beckoning me each time I open my tea vault.

In the pouch it smells lovely,richly floral with subtle green tea undertones.

Once brewed though it actually smells a little gross and meaty like it was hibiscus or something..this made me very worried.
Luckily as it cooled it began to smell like roses again…lovely optimism is back!

First taste and it’s very nice,not bitter at all.The floral taste is the winner here I just wish it was less subtle though!
I tend to prefer my floral tea full-bodied, bold and unapologetic.

Overall this tea is very very nice and rosy.It would be lovely iced.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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