15534 Tasting Notes
My first tea from Verdant and a nice change from the flavoured teas that I’ve been trying lately. These teas make me wish I was set up to brew gong fu style. Love the smell that comes off this tea – cocoa and warm bread. I won’t do this tea justice with my descriptions so I won’t even try. I’m looking forward to multiple steeps of this to run through the flavours.
Preparation
Mmmm my first tea from the Persimmon Tree! I don’t usually enjoy vanilla flavoured teas but the vanilla taste in this tea is very well balanced. I think now that i’ve had a chance to delight in a number of teas I’m going to have to go back and re-rank them all heh.
Preparation
Mmmm much better when bewing at home. Really enjoying the subtlness of this one. Only thing I’m not loving about it are the floral undertones. Still not something I’d turn away if offered to me :)
You may have boiled the water too hot. I find that when I do at home I can get no floral undertones, just peachy goodness. Experiment with it :D
Thanks Helen! I’ll try that. :)
Really enjoying the teas from butiki.
Yeah Stacy is a genius, I’m enjoying her stuff too :D
Helen…that seems to have helped with the floral tones….unless its just the fact that it’s my second steeping ;) still a delicious tea
Writing tasting notes on the iPad doesn’t always work so well. Finally got a chance to sit and relax and try this one. I’ve been trying to get through all of them before my next two orders show up :) the strawberry in this one almost seems to be hiding only to peek out when you least expect it. A very nice mellow tea for this evening m
I received this as a sample from Stacy @ Butiki in my order. I think I have steeped this wrong since I didn’t get what most have mentioned from this tea. To be fair, it was still an enjoyable tea but not quite what I was expecting. Added some sugar to see if that changed the taste enough – about the same. That being said, I’d be wiling to give it another shot as I feel like at this stage in the game, it’s likely ME not the tea :)
Hmmm, the only steeping issue I could think of is amount of water. The sample sizes are pre-measured for 8oz of water. If you use a mug and don’t measure out the water the size of the mug can be very deceiving. Most mugs that I see range from 12oz-16+oz. If you measured out the water, than this might not be your cup of tea. :)
For sure Stacy. I did measure it because in our house mugs are closer to 20oz lol don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the tea just want to try it again because I’m pretty sure I need to do it right :)
Ha, yeah same here. We have huge mugs, to the point of being ridiculous.
You can use mugs as gaiwans easily. The instructions are on Verdant’s website. I always check the brewing instructions there anyway for each tea before I go wild later on my own. I’ve brewed in tumbler glasses, glass bowls, etc. Just need a strainer and that’s all.
Bonnie! Thank you so much…I actually hadn’t noticed that and of course now that you’ve pointed it out my brain is of course laughing at me for not thinking of it myself :) I’m so not going to let the other half know though…that way i can stll find one later on this year grin