New Tasting Notes

Keeps me away from coffee. Drink it everyday with toast and jam. Yum

Every morning in Spring and Summer I drink this tea with just a little milk. It’s lighter than the Scottish Breakfast I drink through Autumn and Winter.

This has good stonefruit, but was a little more subtle than I expected. Good for the price.

Several years ago, I got an amazing Christmas present from my mom. It was a big orange box with a gold string tied around it, and inside I found a tea press, a silver tea spoon, a bag of German rock sugar, and four large tins of loose leaf tea. This was my introduction to tea, and it launched an obsession.
I brewed up all four teas for myself and two friends and we did a taste test. We all agreed that the mate vana was the best of the four. It smelled like cocoa and almond slices and went well with milk and sugar. It didn’t become bitter or astringent with longer steeping times. In short, it was the perfect introduction to tea.
I have to love mate vana. It was my gateway tea.

Loose tea with a drop of milk. An inexpensive yet enjoyable pick-me-up tea.

This Shizuoka guricha has a natural sweetness and dark green appearance. It is very different from traditional guricha and more closely resembles a fukamushi. The flavor holds up well. I’m on my 4th steep.

still loving this tea. I’ve had a container of this for quite a while- no loss of flavor or color. yum.

Steeped a little longer than called for to see if it was any stronger. Still not overly strong but still a nice cup.

Very good white tea!

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Not my normal afternoon tea as I’m an orthodox tea junkie really, but I had some knocking around and wanted to remind myself what it was like and check the quality of the sample etc.
Definitely needs milk owing to the CTC, but long lasting aromatics floating around in the flavour too from the orthodox blended in, so it tastes of more than just strong tea. Sweet, malty finish, and solid dependable flavour

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Nice and hardy! Perfect for waking up or that extra boost in the afternoon.

I’ve let my basket of liu an age for three years now and it’s a marvelous variant on the pu-erh taste, with more of a nettle-like tingle. Delicious!

Very nice, with a mild Darjeeling quality.

This was tasty. The jasmine is present, but not extremely noticeable; the orange really takes over. It’s a very subtle, creamy orange taste, though. Almost like a creamsicle. I bought a very small sample from Whole Foods. Need to buy more.

Hated this at first – something about the taste was very synthetic. But maybe I just steeped incorrectly or something, because I’m really enjoying it lately. Very sweet, burnt sugar taste without being cloying.

Very simple black tea. Has a more grassy flavor than most. Not super exciting, but gets me my caffeine.

It’s got a very subtle pom flavor.

Very Dark in Color. Barely-There Caramel Scent. Average Tea Taste…can’t really taste the Raspberry or the Caramel. Tastes ok as a tea but not so much with the other tastes…depends on what you look for I guess. I’ll still give it a thumbs up because it’s pleasant but if you are looking for the flavors…turn the thumb upside down.