658 Tasting Notes
Wow, this is brisk. Bold, earthy, good amount of astringency. I think next time I might steep slightly less than 3 minutes, but this was just what I needed to help me stay out of bed. I am in that weird period between ending winter classes and starting summer classes and having nothing to do is making me want to sleep all day. This tea is kind of jolting me awake!
So, this tea is old. I bought it a couple years ago somewhere in Paris. The ingredients list says it contains green tea but that isn’t really highlighted anywhere else. Interesting.
I am having a weird experience with this tea. It was really fragrant dry, but once steeped I don’t smell any bergamot. It tastes a bit smoky, and quite woody as the description mentions. And I don’t taste any bergamot! I really don’t think I would have any idea this was an EG if it wasn’t labelled as such.
Okay, I decided I wasn’t enjoying this and re-tried, this time steeping longer. About 4 minutes. Now I get a bit of bergamot at the end of the sip but the tea is bitter. Strange! I can’t decide if it’s that this tea has gone a bit off (it’s old but not ancient) or if it is the tea itself. Oh well.
When I saw Uniquity’s note about Bulk Barn carrying this and other teas, I was just too intrigued. I ended up out in my hometown at a time when the Bulk Barn was open over the weekend, to my great excitement. I love Bulk Barn. I bought too many Clodhoppers.
Anyway, I picked some of this up as well as a green tea and am also pleasantly surprised by it. I oversteeped it and it was a little bitter, but still very drinkable. The currant juiciness is really exuberant and translates well from the dry scent into the brewed taste. I think this could be good to keep on hand for when I crave a fruity black tea. That doesn’t happen with great frequency but this is really tasty and so ridiculously affordable.
Huzzah! I, too, bought too many clodhoppers when I was there. I love the yogurt ones. Glad you could find something to enjoy there as well!
Yeah! I was so surprised by the tea selection. I’ll definitely be trying some more when I have more time in the store. It’s helping satisfy my need to try new teas, but much more wallet-friendly than tea shops.
The prices have me over the moon. I just hope that they have even more flavours I am interested in. What with the “tea boom” I am sure the selection will only increase.
Wow, this is really nice! I picked up two of the “Wellness” teas and expected them just to be novelties. But, I am really enjoying Glow.
This feels like I am drinking comforting, milky oatmeal with cinnamon and apples. It’s so good and makes me feel warm and fuzzy. If any sort of complexion benefits resulted from drinking this it would be lovely, but the taste has me sold here. This is going to be a great bedtime tea, and also a great travel mug tea as it never started tasting weird during a long outing in my Libre.
I had this a couple times over the weekend (at the cottage!). Hm. It doesn’t taste bad, which is pretty impressive compared to my attempts at brewing some of the herbs on the ingredients list. It just doesn’t taste particularly good, but that isn’t really what it’s going for.
Just a pretty innocuous herbal-tasting herbal, hopefully with some heart health benefits! I think the hawthorne is pretty prominent in the taste, and definitely in the scent.
