788 Tasting Notes
Steep Information:
Amount: 2 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 2 Zarafina cups
Tool: Zarafina Green-Loose-Medium
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: floral, honeysuckle (weird I expected Jasmine)
Steeped Tea Smell: Jasmine, honeysuckle, floral
Flavor: flowers
Body: Light
Aftertaste: tingly tongue, I can feel floral perfume filling my mouth
Liquor: pale translucent watery yellow-green
well 4 was too much, 2 was too little, perhaps next time 3 will be just right?
Post-Steep Additives: none
Steep Information:
Amount: 1.5 tsp
Additives: none
Water: filtered, boiling, 6 oz
Tool: Mesh basket strainer in cup
Steep Time: a little over 7 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: vanilla, chocolate, sweet-woody (rooibos)
Steeped Tea Smell: berry, hint of vanilla
Flavor: smack me in the face berry! no vanilla, no chocolate, no rooibos (WTH?)
Body: Full
Aftertaste: berry
Liquor: cloudy dark reddish-brown
Swap thanks to Meghann M!
Well, luckily I didn’t buy it, because although it is a nice berry rooibos, in fact I can barely taste the rooibos, I would be disappointed at the missing vanilla and chocolate flavors. Mind you I enjoy the flavor of rooibos so it might be slight but not noticeable to me.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: 10 min, sad and weak, dumped out
Rating: 2/4 leaves
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-of-tea-loose-leaf-rooibos-tea_31.html
Preparation
2/4 leaves – i think with some fiddling with amount and time it can get to 3/4
Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 cast iron teapot full of filtered boiling water
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 2 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: strong lavender and bergamont
Steeped Tea Smell: mild bergamont and a hint of lavender
Flavor: smooth black tea with some bergamont and then a floral end
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: floral
Liquor: translucent light brown
This came in a cute tea tin with clear labels including the name and ingredients. I wish it had included steeping instructions!
Next time I might do 3 minutes and / or 4 tsp as it’s a bit lighter than I’d like, but with all the over-steeping and burning of leaves I have been doing lightly I wanted to start light.
Instead of awakening I find it soothing.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: 3 min, weak and bitter, bleh! ok so next time 4 tsp and stick to 2 min
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/jade-teapot-loose-leaf-black-tea.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 2 zarafina c
Tool: Zarafina white-loose-medium
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: Sweet, fruity, berry
Steeped Tea Smell: Smells like leaves and fruit, papya maybe, sweet
Flavor: sweet, berry, tart, bitter
Body: Light
Aftertaste: bitter
Liquor: Translucent orange
I think this is being discontinued as I got it on 50% off sale, no return stamped from Teavana.
I saw such positive reviews on Steepster I decided to try it.
I think I should have chosen mild not medium.
Post-Steep Additives: German rock sugar, sweeter but still bitter.
Resteep: same as the first.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/teavana-loose-leaf-white-tea-garden.html
Agreed, I think mild would probably of have been a better choice. I can’t seem to get that acai blueberry one right. It’s always so tarty…
i think the reason i never love greens and whites is they are so finicky – it’s hard to make them right, but when you do they rock
Confirmed that it is discontinued. I wrote to Teavana to ask.
They said that Emerald Bamboo Forest is “quite similar” — which is interesting considering it doesn’t contain any berries.
i HATE when they “re-work” a recipe and say it’s similar, it never it! well that and mom is still bitter over the loss of mrs. earl grey but we might have that fixed soon
Steep Information:
Amount: 4 tsp
Additives: none
Water: boiling tap water
Tool: New teapot, poured through strainer into cups
Steep Time: a little over 3 minutes we kept messing up the timer
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: black tea
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea
Flavor: strong astringent black tea, bitter when oversteeped
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: bitter when oversteeped
Liquor: translucent dark brown
We got the chance to use this new and beautiful, but very hot, tea pot. Charu had just returned from India with some tea (not this one, another one) and some pretty wine glasses and tea service set. We rummaged through the cupboards at MilitaJim’s parents place for tea and had some lovely english breakfast. We should have tried it with a splash of milk as well, oh well.
Post-Steep Additives: honey
It was much sweeter, and enjoyable, with some honey
Resteep: 4+ minutes, weak and watery but drinkable
Preparation
my last tea for the weekend, i’ll be in NYC this weekend visiting friends, no tea for me
Steep Information:
Amount: 1.5 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 6 oz filtered boiling
Tool: Mesh basket strainer in cup
Steep Time: a little over 6 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: nutty, chocolate
Steeped Tea Smell: nutty
Flavor: nutty, then slightly dark chocolate
Body: Full
Aftertaste: sour
Liquor: opaque dark brown, like light coffee
Post-Steep Additives: 1 tsp German rock sugar=much better no sour note, chocolate more prominent
Resteep: 7 min, weak
put in for….until i forgot about it, got a medium bodied nutty chocolaty (it had sugar dregs in it) drink, i don’t have the patience but if you do it is resteepable.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/teavana-loose-leaf-mate-tea-matevana.html
I can’t wait to try it mixed with my morning mate!
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 teabag 1.8g
Additives: none
Water: hot spigot water, 1/2 mug (6 oz?)
Steep Time: a little over 1 minute
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: Mango, fruity and floral, honey
Steeped Tea Smell: Floral, something else…
Flavor: Light, weak, watery
Body: Light
Aftertaste: none
Liquor: Translucent yellow green
Free sample included in the mail order catalog they send out.
Post-Steep Additives: none
gave another 1 minute (2 total) and it got very bitter
it was not grassy though
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/republic-of-tea-teabag-green-tea-honey.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 5 tsp
Additives: none
Water: filtered boiling 1 cast iron teapot full
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 7 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell:
AmazonV: Wood and chocolate
MilitiaJim: Cake
Steeped Tea Smell: Rooibos, Mint
Flavor: mint
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: sweet, woody
Liquor: Cloudy dark reddish-orange-brown
Swap from Meghann M
Hmm
Mint, rooibos, none of the chocolate
Luckily I wasn’t expecting much from you tea, because your just managing minty. I mean if i wanted mint tea with a sweet undertone to keep it from being 100% mint, I’d want you. Just not in the mood. Not really impressive.
However very drinkable.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: 7 min, weak, still tingly mint
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-of-tea-loose-leaf-rooibos-tea_26.html
Preparation
Steep Information:
Amount: 1 tsp
Additives: none
Water: 1 zarafina cup filtered water
Tool: Zarafina Black-Loose-Medium
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: coconut, chocolate, nutty, roast
Steeped Tea Smell: coconut meat and flesh
Flavor: black tea and coconut shell, the shell WTF?
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: none
Liquor: translucent dark brown
Steepster Traveling Teabox Tea
A very smooth and enjoyable tea. Although the coconut isn’t a very strong flavor (it’s more of a strong after taste and smell) it is there, in an odd way. The coconut shell was what I was picking up.
Not sure if I’d trudge through snow for it, but I will enjoy a cup from time to time.
Post-Steep Additives: none
Resteep: Zarafina Black-Loose-Medium
Beautiful! Just as robust as the first cup.
I added a touch of sweetened coconut milk, which brought out the coconut meat flavor.
I think it could easily have done another steep, only I had to leave and get my train into work.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/premium-steap-packaging-black-tea.html
