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This is my favorite tea right now. It has a very subtle but distinct taste. It looks interesting with its more amber coloring when brewed, and it is great with or without sweetner

My daughter who is 14 fell in love with this tea she won’t even let me make a cup of it until I order her some more

I have to say that I plain dislike this.

There’s a hard, firm edge to the taste that I find quite difficult to describe but that I find unpleasant. It’s not something different, it’s a version of the generic tea taste. I thought I’d brewed my first pot a bit too long and it had got stale but, though it’s slightly similar to staleness, it’s not really that taste. Perhaps if one could imagine what liquorice would taste like devoid of any hint whatsoever of sweetness, that would be something like it. I’ve tried decreasing the quantity of loose tea and the brewing time but it’s always there underneath.

In its defence, I have to say that the instructions recommend the addition of full-cream milk, so perhaps it’s just not intended for drinking ‘black’ – but I don’t take milk.

ETA – I should have mentioned other elements to the flavour: I get a hint of freshly-cut grass, the tiniest, faintest ‘bite’ – something like the smell of black peppercorns and not in any way unpleasant, and, strangely enough, a hint of beef.

Edited again for lousy punctuation.

Trying out a cotton filter, so I’m drinking one of my few roobios blends to see how well it catches the little bits.

Mixed with Teavana’s vanilla honey bush (1/3). No additives. Hot.
This has replaced all coffee in my life… They don’t advertise this combo or mixing it with azteca fire for a good hot chocolate.
This is just a great versatile tea.

This is a great summer tea. I received a sample of this with my order from last week. The dried smell was the smell of sweet melons. When I brewed it it smelled distinctly like watermelon. As I took a sip I could taste the honeydew more then watermelon. It is a change from what I have ben drinking lately. Usually if I have an herbal it is rooibos, or it has a lot of hibiscus in it. I know this would be great as an ice tea. Sadly I’m not a big fan of herbal ice teas….but this might be a good one.

Tastes even better than usual in my new Yixing pot. This is the smallest one I have, around 4.5 oz. Got about 5 or 6 out of around 4.5-5g of leaf.

I don’t tend to buy much at Teavana, but Lemon Lime Kampai blended with Blueberry Bliss was on sample and it tasted wonderful, so I bought some of the blend. Fruity fruity fruity! Rooibos is not my very favorite thing, but it’s not a strong presence in this tea, compared to the fruit flavors. The sample had their rock sugar in it, but regular sugar is good too. Refreshing and fruity. I think I’ll try it iced this summer.

A solid, standard Assam. Nice with milk and sugar.

This is a Taiwanese oolong. It is certainly a “Green Oolong” with a sweeter and flowery taste with a clear light liquor. The brew is very soothing and has a light aftertaste.

I brewed it with a yixing pot reserved for Oolong teas with brew times: 30s, 45s, 1m, 1:30m, 2m, 2:30m, 3m.

This tea is a light oolong that is yellow in color with a vegetal aroma. It has a green tea taste that is sweet with flavors of soybean and asparagus. I feel like I am drinking a green tea instead of an oolong.

Awesome cup of Jasmine Dragon Tears. I had purchased an expensive jasmine tea from a local store, but this one beats it hands-down

My second review for this tea. I had some tea bags left over from a 1/2 price box, so I decided to go all in and bet 4 bags on a cup of iced tea. I did this because I thought there were some different flavours that were clashing in the hot brew.

The cup aroma was much closer to that of the tea bag. The colour of the brew was strange yellow. Almost fluorescent.

It did seem to unify the flavours. I’m kind of reminded of one of those fruity blends that uses orange peel. But this was in no way citrusy.

Definitely raspberry jam on the nose and pomegranate. I buy the seduction argument for aroma. Unfortunately, you are going to be walking around with that aroma for some time afterwards.

Brewed for 3 minutes.