15 Tasting Notes
I love this tea. The leaves are beautiful just to look at – this is my first time with higher quality loose leaf tea and I’m not used to such lovely, silvery leaves! The taste is very delicate – like a white tea made with fresh watermelon juice. Very refreshing and delicious – will definitely get this again.
Preparation
Not a bad tea. The dry smell is very similar to earl grey, very strong bergamot odor. I used water just off the boil, steeped for about 4-5 minutes (sort of forgot about it so not 100% sure).
The taste is very close to a cream of earl grey – minus the cream, at least to my palate. It’s a smooth, tasty floral black tea as you might expect. Bergamot is definitely noticeable in this. I’m not nearly refined enough to distinguish between assam vs. other black teas so I can’t comment there.
Mine ended up a little bitter, though that is probably my own fault. Not my favorite but definitely a nice tea.
Preparation
I bought this tea out of curiosity from my local coffee shop. (the package says ‘toasted seaweed and raw sesame flavors – intriguing!) The smell is… not appealing. It’s exactly like the smell of musty old hay.
Steeped this for about 1 minute (will do multiple steeps of this I think) with water just shy of boiling and ended up with a nice, dark liquor. The taste is surprisingly pleasant, considering the smell. It tastes very caramelized and I definitely get the sesame flavors. Thankfully no notes of seaweed, at least for me. If you told me this tea was made from toasted sesame seeds I’d believe it – it’s like no other green I’ve had. It is a very tasty, rich tea which I would definitely buy again.
