Peach Jasmine Dragon Pearl Green Tea

Oh man this is good. So good. We dumped our 7 gram sampler into our 18 ounce Steeper from DavidsTea. We let the pretty little pearls steep for a mere minute for the first steep, watching them slowly just start to unfurl in the steeper. I’m having mine chilled over ice and it is gorgeous. My wife, De, is having hers hot and she started a second steep as soon as she took a sip of the first. It’s light and peachy and refreshing and just plain delicious. As soon as we have a bit of extra money again, we are definitely ordering a tin. Thank you so much for the sample, Angel from TeaVivre, we have absolutely fallen in love. We plan to steep this for the rest of the day.

I believe that most of the time, when you get the same message from two different places you need to pay attention. With all that has been going on with my mother-in-law’s health and my nephew’s accident, people are starting to really feel the stress.

This morning I saw a Facebook post that said that the only thing in our control is our attitude, and therefore we are 100% responsible for our attitude. It spoke to me, though I realize that everyone has a breaking point and weak spots.

Then I got the cutest card from GMathis that said “Bread and water can easily become toast and tea.” That spoke to me about making the very best of everything. So I will take that message and run with it!

Now here I am drinking tea with my daughter and relaxing, waiting for my son to arrive for his dad’s birthday tomorrow and trying to plan who will be at the rehab center and when, to keep grandma company.

Teavivre’s Jasmine teas are a tranquil daydream in the midst of activity. Smooth, sweet, simple, and natural. The peach is light in this, the Jasmine sweet, and the base smooth. I am glad it resteeps so well because we are on pot number two.

From the Cooking TTB

Blergh. Probably because by the time this sample got to me it was mostly a broken up mess. I used up the last of this sample.

The smell is really nice, a sweet peach scent that is just a touch floral.

But the tea! Gah! Maybe I overbrewed it, but I used only what I use on most of my other greens (185F for 2-3 min). Nope. It was a bitter mess. So sad. I wish that there was more so I could try again. The resteep didn’t go much better.

Cooking TTB #6

This has been on my wishlist for a while and was so so nice!! I absolutely will be picking some of this up. I can’t say that it outright tastes like peach, but the peachyness seems to soften and sweeten the jasmine just enough to make it so much different than any other jasmine tea I own. Not to mention that I was able to get 3 steeps in my 12 oz cup with 8 pearls. Love.

I love love love peach, and this was so good. I was super glad to find that the jasmine wasn’t super strong, risking overwhelming the peach. If anything the peach was stronger, which balances things out better in this case. Iced or hot, this one is easy to enjoy. Multiple steeps as a bonus.

Cooking TTB #10

I’ve been having so much fun sampling a bunch of different teas from this box! This was another winner for me. The base is a lovely light, creamy green tea that would be delicious on its own. The peach flavor is natural, juicy, and sweet and the jasmine is very subtle, mostly showing up in the aftertaste. A great calming bedtime cup!

It’s raining here today and in the low 40’s. That is kind of achy weather. So pretending it is sunny and mid 70’s, I finally opened up this sample. Right from the start this smells wonderfully peachy – very natural. I enjoyed reading several of the reviews and what they did or did not detect. I am not sure how to account for all the differences. For me, fixed western mug style, I got a wonderful cup of light peach tea. I am not sure I detect the green tea in the first cup. If I did not know it was scented with jasmine, I don’t know if I could have made that connection. It bounced around from kind of vanilla, to maybe caramel, then into a wine like flavor, and back to peach. All of it was mellow and without bitterness. There is a slight amount of astringency in the form of cheek tingle. On the second mug I got distracted by shiny objects and oversteeped. This produced a mug with a lot of green tea flavor along with more astringency but I like that in a green. The jasmine was far in the background. The peach was light but still present. Very different than the first and still a solid mug. As a peach tea this is pretty good though I have to admit to preferring the Premium Jasmine Dragon Pearls.

From the Cooking TTB.

I made two cups of this. The first was from some leaf that was in a ziplock baggie. It didn’t have a lot of fragrance to it, and the taste was very mildly peachy and not much else. The second cup I made from leaf out of a sealed sample packet. The fragrance is much stronger, and there’s more jasmine to the flavour, but it’s still extremely mild.

A pleasant cup to drink but not particularly distinctive. I was hoping it would have the same intensity of the regular jasmine dragon pearls, but alas, it’s no where near as lovely.

What fickle little tea! Needs longer then 3 minutes of steep time in order to really bring out the peach flavor. I felt like 4.5 was a good amount. Any more and it became to bitter. The Jasmine flavor is very light. Too light if u ask me. Needs to be stronger.

Eh, not super strong. Maybe it’s because it’s a bit too hot right now, but even smell wise it’s not strong. I think I like Teavana’s Peach Jasmine better…it’s definitely a lot stronger.
It tastes faintly of jasmine, but nothing really strong. Oh well. Least it was just a sample. xD
Thank you for the sample, darby! (: