Dilmah

I like it that it’s not sweet nor sour, like many apple-flabvoured teas. It’s classic Dilmah approach – decent base black tea with apple serving as a balanced factor, not a dominant. Yes, it is artificial in part, but decently artificial, making this brew pleasant.

Distinct peach aroma supported by the stable malty base.
Warming flavour with peach being only a part of the experience, not dominating, nicely blending with the base black Ceylon tea.
Fruity Dilmah teas are quite stable and reliable. They’re not extraordinary in any way, but also don’t fall below a certain level.

Tangerine note is subtle in aroma, stronger in taste. And it’s the peel, of course, not the fruit flavour. Plus decent base black tea underneath. Not bad but also not great, just a regular corporate tea with decent fruitiness.

Lots of lychee that feels rather natural despite being just a flavouring (probably due to perfume -y specific of the fruit). Malty and slightly astringent base black tea, a touch of sweetness impression. Not bad.

Very strong artificial vanilla aroma, reminding me of vanilla pudding. Only traces of black Ceylon tea underneath.
Taste is better, because you can actually sense the tea and vanilla flavour is less intrusive here. However, there’s not much taste at all and all it leaves is a faint malty aftertaste.
Drinkable, yes, but mediocre and artificiel.

Tea from the hotel connected to the Hong Kong airport.

Not a bad work tea. Coppery and earthy, some malt with kind of berry undertone. Doesn’t get much bitter. Fairly smooth and full-bodied but without a low-down malty taste; rather bright. Could have used a little saffron to give more dimension.

Dominated by sweetish, artificial vanilla, then slight blueberry note and a bit of malty base tea in the back. Drinkable but rather meh. 50/100

I like the base black tea character in here. Only marginally astringent, slightly bitter, really characterful for a bagged tea, with subdued but discernible lemon note. 70/100

This tea is completely dominated by spicy ginger character. And I wouldn’t mind it, except that it is backed by only a bit of the malty, base black tea note and there is almost no honey present. Very one-dimensional tea.

Pickings from Dad’s teabox. I’m visiting everyone and judging their teas this christmas, it seems. I like floral teas, and this was definitely that, but it was otherwise rather mediocre. There is nothing special about it, and comes across as rather bland as a result.

Disappointing. I generally enjoy Dilmah, but found this to lack flavor and be a bit musty. That said, it wasn’t off-putting, and I finished the cup, which is more than I can say for some other less flavorful teas. So, meh is about my best descriptor.

Strong jasmine aroma with solid straw notes of green tea.
Slight astringency, slight bitterness, straw, hay.
Not bad, not especially good. Just drinkable.

Strong fruity aroma, quite natural in fact, a bit of sourness, a bit of honey and hard candies.
And it’s relatively pleasant in taste as far as the big company bagged teas go. It has some underlying maltiness, nice fruity notes, slight sweetness and sourness.

Delicate aromatic high-growth. Lingering and mellow flavor with notes of eucalyptus
and mint.

Equal amount of strawberries and mango in aroma.
Very fruity, slightly sweet taste.
Nothing special, but not bad for a bagged tea.

I am still alive, just went for two days visit my friend in different region, we hiked about 20 km in the mountains (in one day). Pretty nice days.

I got this tea bag in “big bags section”, so it is probably quite old.

“Watte means Estate, Medameans Mid” — that’s what they claim on back side of tea bags.
Mid Grown (2000-3000 feet altitude)
Another statements: “Strong, pungent & full-bodied. In the style of a Shiraz!”

I don’t recall drinking Shiraz wine, but whatever. Tea brewws dark mahogany colour, celar and strong tannic aroma. Tea itself isn’t much different. It’s quite tannic, but as well nicely malty, strong taste and overall very “tea like”. Not very complex in taste, but caffeine booster for sure (I need it though). And overall nice and enjoyable. Fresh would be better.

I got this tea bag in “big bags section”, so it is probably quite old.

“Watte means Estate, Yata means Low” — that’s what they claim on back side of tea bags.
Low Grown (upto 1000 feet altitude)
Another statements: “Heavy, robust & deep in colour. In the style of a Cabernet Sauvignon!”

I guess it is right again (see https://steepster.com/Martin-CZE/posts/401794 ). It is heavy and robust, and very deep brown colour. But something is missing in the flavour profile. It was nice, malty tea, but somehow too strong. I like really malty teas, but here were some metallic aftertaste as well and it was quite drying and astringent.

Maybe it is age, maybe it is tea-dust in a tea bag. If I don’t have lots of black teas in my cupboard (and actually lots of teas), I would look for some Ceylon teas. Teakruthi? Probably.

I got this tea bag in “big bags section”, newest tasting notes are 7 years old…. so it is that old?

I don’t know how to you make formatting here guys, but I will do my best even without it.

“Watte means Estate, Uda means High” — that’s what they claim on back side of tea bags.
Another statements: “Full-bodied, rounded & refreshing. In the style of a Pinot Noir!”

And although it is apparently only dust in the bag (unfortunately, not a loose leaf version), it was exactly what they wrote on the bag. It was full-bodied, round and refreshing.

Yes, it was very mild in taste, quite tannic and malty, but with cocoa notes somehow. And even those flavour are considered quite rough – it was rather mellow. To be honest, it reminded me bit Yellow Label from Lipton but without that artificial extract from tea leaves. But this tea don’t deserve comparing with Lipton.

It was fresh even ages from produce. Foil bags indeed make even old tea tasty… it doesn’t rot or just weak at all.

Indeed tasty tea, full-bodied. I just really enjoyed this morning cup.

I’ve had the Dilmah breakfast tea often, because I picked some up when I was in Sri Lanka a few years ago. Recently I went over to a friend’s house who pushed some on me and I was like “I already have this.” But now that I got home, I realize it’s the earl grey, and I in fact, have not had that before. Loving it! Just good tea.

I used to really like this tea some time ago, but I haven’t had it for a couple of years.
It has a very strong caramel aroma (obviously), not an artificial one, reminding me a bit of butterscotch candies.
The taste is mellow, caramelly, like melted toffee, with malty undertones in the background.
Very easy-going, warming tea, although I have too much experience now to enjoy it as much as before.

Cheap and widely available in office pantries. The taste is fine, with hints of nuttiness after adding milk, but I usually use two bags steeped forever to make a decent cup that doesn’t look like lower course river water.