1908 Tasting Notes
Dear lord it’s cold today! I needed something a bit stronger and more robust than normal to warm me up, so I chose this tea. The cocoa and the nutmeg flavourings make it taste oddly appropriate for a winter day like this.
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Grr, I tried to post this once and it got eaten. >:(
I got a cup of this to go when the boyfriend and I were shopping for X-mas stuff. Surprisingly it brewed up without any bitterness this time. The green tea is the dominent flavour in this tea, not surprising when you consider how delicate white teas are. There’s a slight rice-grain flavour that I can taste, although nowhere near the sort you’d find in a genmai-cha.
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Got eaten? Like you closed out the window or there was an error posting?
I haven’t tried a straight green/white blend, sounds interesting. I imagine the white helps sweeten some of the natural bitterness of the greens?
Got eaten as in I posted the message and it didn’t show up on my tealog. It logged the tea, but didn’t include any of my comments.
Weird, we’ll take a look at that….
It’s no biggy, but thanks. :)
I’m resteeping the leaves from earlier and the taste is less nutty and more tannin-like, the muscatel wine flavour still about as strong as before.
The boyfriend-creature just came in from work and when I told him what kind of tea I was drinking he laughed and said “Sounds like some sort of alien species- ‘Help the Darjeelians are attacking!’” Jerk.
~_^
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…I’m pretty sure my guy would say the same. Let’s hope there’s hope for them both.
I don’t get to much bounce back about the names of teas from my guy, it’s just the sheer vastness of quantities of teas I have that make him cringe. I have so many all bunched together that he can’t tell when I’ve added a new one to the collection. Guess that’s a good thing! ;)
@Jillian You should tell him they’ll suck his brains out when he’s sleeping. Though I suppose that would be more effective if he was five years old.
@Amyb Sneaky!
I recently got the bad news that the woman who owns Lavender Basics has had to close down her store. It’s terribly disapointing news because I love several of her teas and in the case of this tea I haven’t yet found a Formosa Oolong that matches up with this one in terms of quality or taste.
It’s baked without tasting burnt and it has a very faint trace of the bark-like flavour of Adagio’s Grapefuit Oolong (sans the grapefruit, obviously). It also gives off gently-wafting fruity notes, particularly as it cools. It’s a very full-bodied, complex tea that’s quite unique and a joy to drink.
I instinctively want to save this tea and use it as sparingly as possible, but I know that doesn’t really work with the limited shelf-life tea has. Sigh.
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I’m sorry to hear that! It is so sad when something we love becomes unavailable. This, of course, means that you must begin The Quest for an oolong as good as Lavendar Basics. It will mean great sacrifice as you try oolong after oolong. But in the end you will emerge the conquering hero, your oolong of choice soaking in hot water as you raise your cup of tea in glory. ;)
Or something like that.
@Carolyn HAHAHAHAHAHA that was fantastic.
@Jillian Good luck on your quest!
Definitely a nutty sort of taste, especially when it’s hotter. In addition, the tea actually seems to gain a bit of sweetness to it as it cools – nothing like an oolong might, but there is a distinct lessening of the bitterness.
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It’s been over year since I drank this tea and clearly my memory has faded a bit in the meantime as I took a sip and WHOA! -What a kick from the cinnamon and the sweetness! It’s less of a ‘bleh’ reaction than a oookaaay-maybe-I-won’t-steep-this-quite-as-long-next-time reaction. I do wonder what’s causing the sweetness, I’ll have to peruse the ingredient list on the box. is curious now
