176 Tasting Notes
I’m trying this iced (and again unsweetened) now.
This time around, the taste is more fruity up front. The strawberry also stands out more now as opposed to the apple. Now the mint is just a really nice aftertaste. I like it better now that it is iced; this is going to be really nice come summertime.
My first time with a Teavana tea, and it’s a good one!
First off, the color grabs me right away. It’s a very nice light pink that I’ve never seen from a tea before.
The taste is mostly mint, with the fruit as an aftertaste. The strawberry is pretty prominent, but you can also taste apple. I can’t really taste much tea, just the herbal peppermint. It isn’t floral at all.
Overall, this is a very light and refreshing tea. I’ll try it iced sometime.
Is it supposed to help lose weight? I need to lose those stubborn last 15 pounds and wonder if it would help…
Morgana Don’t fall into the hype of the name. Any calorie free beverage has the potential to help you loose weight if you drink it instead of drinking/eating something high in fat, calories, carbs, etc. Caffeine also helps you burn more calories. But this is no miracle tea and it bugs me that they try to pass it off as such.
Morgana- Pu erh and oolong are both suppose to help boost your metabolism and help with digestion you can mix the two any number of ways but the marketing is somewhat deceiving by Teavana which I do agree with Cofftea (in that it is not a miracle tea) However I do own this tea and drink it daily and it maybe all in my mind but it does curb my appetite but so do my other teas containing puerh and oolong.
All teas have awesome health benefits, but I’ve read that Pu-erh and oolong are especially potent, like SoccerMom said. Cofftea is also right; it’s marketed as the only tea out there to help with weight, when in reality all teas can help you. So my advice is just to go with whatever tea tastes best to you : )
Plain water w/ lots of ice is even said to help because you burn calories to warm yourself up… but who wants to drink plain water?;)
I love mornings on Steepster because I love reading everybody’s new tasting notes. This was the 2nd tea out of 3 that came in my order from Rishi yesterday.
The dry leaves actually smelled like beer, so initially I wasn’t too excited. However, upon steeping, the smell became sweet and just ever so lightly fruity. The tea itself is a golden, light orange color. It’s very pretty when the light shines through it.
This is probably the tea that tastes the most like what the package says it should. I really taste honeydew melon in this. It compliments the white tea perfectly, since they’re both such light tastes. After the initial smell, I’m surprised I like this so much. It’s really good!
This came in the mail today, on one of the few times a year (or decade) that it snows in Texas. The UPS man was thoughtful enough to prop my doormat on top of the box to shield it from the falling snow. Southerners really are more friendly! I’ve been here for 6 months, but the little things like this continue to amaze me on a daily basis. Granted, I grew up in New Jersey, king of assholes, so the fact that people don’t flip other people off for no reason really blows my mind.
Anyway, about the tea. It steeps to a very pretty color that’s hard to describe. It’s kind of like pink mixed with orange mixed with yellow. If you want to know what it really looks like, check it out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47736372@N04/4382845180/
The smell is actually like wine. It’s intoxicating and fruity, inviting you to take a sip. I couldn’t help but oblige. It tastes exactly like it smells. It’s mostly floral with a hint of plum. Upon tasting, it’s obvious that this is a plum tea. It really does taste like plums. And I love plums. For just tasting floral and fruity, it’s surprisingly complicated. This is going to require many cups to get a full idea of what I’m tasting. I’ll let you know!
It’s a good sign when I’m halfway through a tin only 2 days after I receive my package. This is just so good!
When I first moved to Texas from New Jersey, about 6 months ago, people gave me the weirdest looks when they found out that I drink my tea hot and unsweetened. Apparently, it’s the norm in Texas to drink your tea iced and with so much sweetener that you risk going into a diabetic coma with every sip. Well, it’s a pretty warm day here so I decided to try my White Blueberry the Texas way, only without using so much sweetener. It turns out it’s pretty delicious! I still like my way better, but I could get used to this. I’ll certainly be drinking iced tea a lot this summer when it’s just way too hot outside for hot tea.
Yep, you’re talking about Southern sweet tea… one of my favorite types of tea! Anyway, I needa try this one by Adagio.
LOL Read my Bio to find out why I am Laughing! Erin I can’t wait to try this tea after your rave reviews. Isn’t it you that recommends Dawn as well? Either way I can’t wait to try them both. I love hot tea’s without sugar but I am with teakennection on the southern style sweet tea it’s just in our blood we love it! My teenager begs me to go to Chick fil A after I pick him up from school everyday for the sweet tea! Don’t get me wrong he IS a teenager and doesn’t turn down the food there either!
I was so excited when my latest order from Adagio came and they had thrown in this as a free sample, since my first tin of this was starting to run out. This is an old favorite, but my cup today tasted bitter. The smell is divine, though.
I can’t honestly say that I enjoyed this very much. The sweetness that I was expecting wasn’t there, and it tasted a bit too vegetal for my liking. I tasted way more of the white tea than the tangerine, which I hardly tasted at all. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing (especially if you like white tea like I do), but if you’re wanting a tangerine white, than I wouldn’t recommend this. On the bright side though, it doesn’t have any aftertaste because it is such a light tea.
Even though I only steeped it for just over 2 minutes, my mouth was left feeling curiously (and annoyingly) dry. I can’t think of why that would be, since I didn’t oversteep.
This is another one that I’d be willing to trade or give away if nobody takes me up on the offer.
Backlogging from this morning:
When I opened the tin, I was surprised to see how large these balls were. [I’ll just say “That’s what she said” now, so I don’t have to say it after every sentence in this note.] They were probably 2 to 3 times the size of my Jasmine #12 pearls. I threw 2 balls into my infuser, and immediately they began to unfurl.
The taste is rich and complex. I can taste woody, earthy notes with a hint of chocolate. It somehow manages to be slightly bitter at the same time as being so rich. The smell is more bitter than anything, although it’s still a nice smell. This will make a very good morning cup of tea, because it is pretty gentle in it’s assault on your tongue.