Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Chinese Black Tea
Flavors
Honey, Bread, Malt, Plum, Salt, Apricot, Burnt Sugar, Cocoa, Milk, Mineral, Smooth, Wood, Brown Toast, Caramel, Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Dates, Dried Fruit, Molasses, Peach, Smoke, Stonefruit, Sweet Potatoes, Thick, Toast, Yams, Floral, Mint, Musty, Cinnamon, Fruity, Camphor, Cream, Eucalyptus, Orange, Raisins, Sweet, Tannin, Tea, Dark Bittersweet, Brown Sugar, Citrus, Corn Husk, Creamy, Broth, Cherry, Muscatel, Red Fruits, Wet Wood, Berry, Grain, Cherry Wood, Oak, Custard, Earth
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Caffeine
High
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205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 45 sec 4 g 12 oz / 358 ml

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  • “Sipdown 136-2021 Another pot of tea to sip through things more quickly. This isn’t my favorite. I find it a bit muddy and thick. Really vegetal, with some cacao notes at the end of the sip.” Read full tasting note
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  • “I ordered this tea from WP because, honestly, I liked the name. I have no vested interest in the tea or know about the hype surrounding it until I started looking at the reviews. I brewed this...” Read full tasting note
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  • “For what it’s worth, finally found the eucalyptus. Maybe it only comes out while eating risotto with your tea… Otherwise, a solid and frequently returned to black tea for me.” Read full tasting note
  • “I finished off my bag of the Spring 2018 harvest several days ago and it took a while to background process my opinion. While this tea is complex and layered flavor-wise because of the mix of...” Read full tasting note

From Whispering Pines Tea Company

If I were the Mad Hatter, what tea would I serve to the Jabberwocky? Perhaps the uffish beast would enjoy something chocolaty? Maybe a finish of eucalyptus would soothe his frumious mind! Mind you, with teeth like snicker-snack’s there would be no turning back so it must be pleasing to the eyes! Purple, green, brown between, so pretty his eyes will gyre! So through the tulgey forest I shall brew and pour us a beautiful cup of the most beautimus tea that he will ever see. I must say – the slithy toves will run away, the jubjub bird will feel okay, and at brillig under the tumtum tree, the Jabber and me will sip some tea! He will chortle and the manxome beast will burble out that he is pleased and the days of worrying that he will eat you will be far away – oh frabjous day!

No more mimsy cups of tea! The Jabberwocky is strong and smooth with a full mouth of wildflower nectar and honey drizzled on a fresh french baguette with a light hint of salt. The middle of the sip hints at creamy chocolate and plum dipped in luscious silky caramel. The finish is strong of camphor and eucalyptus and leaves your mouth feeling fresh and wanting more! The beautiful wet leaves are light brown, mottled with green and purple, and emit the aroma of honey, camphor, and a cool mineral freshness reminiscent of standing at the edge of a raging river. Enjoy the strong qi of this smooth and silky brew anytime of the day, and don’t worry about over-brewing…we knew that the Jabberwocky didn’t like bitterness or astringency, so you won’t find either in this cup!

Ingredients: Fujian Black Tea, Ailaoshan Black Tea, Wild Arbor Yunnan Black Tea

Notes: Honey, Nectar, Salted Caramel, Camphor, Eucalyptus, Cocoa, Stonefruit, French Bread

http://whisperingpinestea.com/the-jabberwocky.html

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Whispering Pines Tea Company is dedicated to bringing you the most original, pure, beautiful tea blends. We use only the highest quality ingredients available to create additive-free teas teas inspired by the pristine wilderness of Northern Michigan. Our main focus is on customer satisfaction and quality.

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Sipdown 136-2021
Another pot of tea to sip through things more quickly. This isn’t my favorite. I find it a bit muddy and thick. Really vegetal, with some cacao notes at the end of the sip.

Michelle

Such a bummer when a tea has a cool name but doesn’t taste as good.

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I ordered this tea from WP because, honestly, I liked the name. I have no vested interest in the tea or know about the hype surrounding it until I started looking at the reviews.

I brewed this following WP’s guidelines: 1 TBSP / 8 oz @212F for 3 minutes, then 5 minutes
(I will also try this GF style, then update this review)

Tea: 1.5 grams, which about fit in my TBSP at home.
Water: 8oz/237 ml

3minutes: The liquid is a gold amber and smells of syrupy honey.
The wet leaf smells of sweet, dough-y, and has a scent that I associate with wild tree purple tea from Yunnan. The flavor is not very complex, nor is it simple. It has a medium viscosity with a thick aftertaste like cream. It’s not honey sweet, but has some honey overtones. The tea has a fairly long finish. 5 minutes: Not sure that I like the second steep. The flavors are just “okay”. It seems to have lost any complexity that it had from the first brew.

For this brew style, this is a very innocuous tea without much wow factor in the flavors. It’s not bad and I suspect that it’s a good beginner type tea for someone who is used to bagged tea from Tazo.

Flavors: Honey

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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For what it’s worth, finally found the eucalyptus. Maybe it only comes out while eating risotto with your tea…

Otherwise, a solid and frequently returned to black tea for me.

Flavors: Bread, Malt, Plum, Salt

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I finished off my bag of the Spring 2018 harvest several days ago and it took a while to background process my opinion.

While this tea is complex and layered flavor-wise because of the mix of Chinese red teas, I feel like the Jabberwocky’s bark is bigger than its bite. It’s an easy tea to slay, one I could drink all day but I was always left longing for something a little deeper, a tea I could sink my teeth into, a beast that would put up more of a fight. I may have preferred this tea gongfu actually, because each type of leaf in the blend waxed and waned. There was however, always a bit of flatness to the body regardless of brewing method. The description is mostly apt, but I was missing out on that camphor and eucalyptus.

I think this tea would be very appealing to those who like slightly sweet and softly poetic Chinese reds.

Flavors: Apricot, Bread, Burnt Sugar, Cocoa, Honey, Malt, Milk, Mineral, Plum, Salt, Smooth, Wood

Dustrose

I almost went the Jabberwocky route this morning! I initially picked it up because I was intrigued by the eucalyptus and was also disappointed that it wasn’t more prominent. Still tastes good though.

Kawaii433

I’m wondering if that’s one of the reasons I liked it better than I expected. I’m not a fan of camphor and hesitated when I bought it and didn’t really find much there.

derk

I think my tongue and brain have been changed by drinking some heavy-duty puerh in terms of mouthfeel, cooling effects and camphor taste. My preferences be a changin’. I know a lot of people will love this tea, though.

Natethesnake

I used to dislike camphor note when I’d drink Keemun teas and when drinking China reds went for those with chocolate, plum and floral notes like Fujian red monkey and Jin Jun Mei. Sheng from Lincang has helped me acquire the taste for camphor…

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Opened the pouch yesterday. I was looking forward to trying this one.

The Jabberywocky tea’s dry leaf is thin dark twists. The dry tea leaves and tea are aromatic. It has a good chocolatey, woody forest, honey aroma. The wet leaves have the equivalent but more intense aroma of cocoa, dark cocoa to be specific and honey. I could smell some malt, baked bread, and wheat toast. I love those three aroma/taste in tea, by the way. The liquor was a dark amber color and the early infusions had some dried fruits, lots of cocoa. It was woodsy and malty. The baked bread, wheat toast/bread, sweet potatoes, and some spices notes, a dash of salt were present throughout the infusions along with the fresh aroma of fruits, sweetness. Later infusions produced minerals, raisins, and a stronger fruit taste, particularly white peaches, more malt, while the dark cocoa, wood, sweet potatoes, and bread-y notes remained. Lots of honey sweetness, along with brown sugar, burnt sugar, caramel, toasted bread. It has a thick texture although not as thick of a texture as their Alilaoshan Black that I sampled a couple of weeks ago. This is smoother though, in fact, when I drank the infusions, it felt as though I used a different type of water, I didn’t. Really soft mouthfeel. It is also extremely complex with clean notes. Great aftertaste and a long finish of sweetness, and coolness. No bitterness or astringency.

6g, 212°F, 110ml, rinse, 14 steeps: 5s, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 35s, 45s, 55s, 1m5s, 1m15s, 1m30s, 2m, 3m, 5m

Flavors: Bread, Brown Toast, Burnt Sugar, Caramel, Chocolate, Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Dates, Dried Fruit, Honey, Malt, Mineral, Molasses, Peach, Salt, Smoke, Smooth, Stonefruit, Sweet Potatoes, Thick, Toast, Wood, Yams

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 6 g 4 OZ / 110 ML
mrmopar

Brendan does some fantastic stuff.

Kawaii433

Indeed :)

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This is one of the teas with a flavor profile that I used to refer to as “mushroom,” although it doesn’t exactly taste like a mushroom. I associate the smooth, slippery, heavy mouthfeel of it with mushrooms. Now that I have more experience with flavor profiles, I’ve come to learn that honey is at least one common denominator among all these “mushroom” teas.

It’s a flavor profile I really disliked in the beginning, but have slowly acquired a tase for. I especially appreciate it after long breaks from high-end teas. I usually prefer bold, astringent, and malty black teas. But every once in a while, its nice to change things up so that I can appreciate a sense of newness in the flavors I get too accustomed to.

Despite having been on Steepster for so many years, I have not developed the tea-conossier tasting sensitivity so many of you others have, so my reviews tend to be pretty basic (sorry!). What I can say for this tea is that it stands out from the crowd with its subtle minty finish.

Flavors: Floral, Honey, Mint, Musty, Smooth

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Smooth, complex, easy to drink.

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A beautiful blended tea

Flavors: Cinnamon, Fruity

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Forgot to save my previous note on this, so this will be just a short and quick review.

I prepare this tea mainly gongfu style, but I have also done it western

With gongfu, early steeps contain a very fruity apricot taste (specifically dried apricot). But subsequent infusions adopts a heavier wood-like taste with malt and dried apricot background. I haven’t seen how it tasted following the end-stage infusions, so can’t give much of a comment on that.

I did prepare this western style once quite a while ago, and I do have to say that western style is the recommended way to approach this tea. It had a very complex yet harmonic taste, consisting of fruits (with apricot as main), honey, general sweetness, light wood, chocolate, and a maltyness around it. I believe gongfu style doesn’t allow the blend of leaves to steep sufficiently enough to have the combined flavour from all of them, but instead prefers the faster steeping leaves over the others.

Not a bad tea, but not recommended if you prefer tea gongfu style.

Flavors: Apricot, Bread, Dried Fruit, Malt, Wood

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 4 OZ / 110 ML

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