Die Acht Schätze des Shaolin / The Eight Treasures of Shaolin

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Nope. I wanted to like it and it’s sorta strawberry and pineapple but it’s also a lot of base tea that is bitter and metallic. Thank you Roswell Strange for sharing but this was a no for me.

Another tea that I packed for my Winnipeg trip – I packed a lot of bagged teas because I know that for travel they’re far, far more convenient. I actually drank this one while on the plane from Montreal to Winnipeg – this is not the first time I’ve made tea while 30,000 feet in the air, it’s always an experience though…

I had mixed thoughts on this one; I liked the pineapple note a lot and the strawberry, while generic, was also nice. Kind of a sweet candied fruit vibe that I could get on board with. The green tea base wasn’t good though; rather drying and astringent, and extremely grassy. There was also too much of it; definitely not proportional to the fruit in the blend.

Could have been worse – but also could have been better. Still, it was tea – and a lot better than the shitty Tetley tea bags that the airline was offering. So a net win, afterall.

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Another share from Roswell Strange – thanks!

This tea is supposed to taste of strawberry and pineapple… but while I can taste that it’s fruity, the primary flavour is definitely a mariney/grassy green tea. One of the few times I’ll say that I’d rather taste less of the base tea. It’s not terrible though, but definitely a generic sort of flavouring (it’s quite familiar to me – I’m thinking of some “strawberry papaya” blacks and greens I’ve had in the past, with chunks of candied pineapple), and not a great base choice. Well, to be fair – it’s actually a fairly standard base choice for medium-quality flavoured greens, so I’m probably being overly harsh. Probably not bad for a bagged tea, but nothing I’d pick up.