1324 Tasting Notes
FYI: I just bought a new box of this and it came with this adorable collectible altoid style tin. I think this must be a new promo for the holiday teas. Because I saw the holiday ones said they had a collectible inside. (Including Candy Cane Lane, Gingerbread one, and the Cranberry one as well) Super Cute idea!
I received a sachet of this from Tabby in a recent swap. I haven’t tried that many white teas as the ones I have tried have been too delicate tasting for my liking. I generally prefer a stronger flavor. This was very nice it has a strong enough flavor for me. The dry leaf smelled like Vanilla Comoro but after steeping it. The taste is quite different leaning more towards a creamsicle flavor. It’s quite nice but nothing I feel the need to buy. Apparently I need to seek out more flavored white teas to try. I didn’t get any grapefruit notes from this tea but orange instead. It was still very enjoyable though.
Flavors: Citrus, Cream, Orange, Vanilla
Preparation
So This was from this morning and I don’t remember much about it. So this will be a super short tasting note. This was a sample that I got last October during a website promotion (get a caramel matcha sample for 99 cents.) I’ve really wanted to try the flavored matcha from here. I prepared this as instructed hot with milk. It was definitely flavorful. Although the caramel flavor reminded me of coffee creamer. I think I’d enjoy the other flavors more than the caramel. So I either need to swap with someone to try some of the others or order some. I just briefly looked at my wishlist and it’s almost at 1000 teas.
Flavors: Caramel, Creamy
This was the pot of tea I ended up choosing and shared with my grandmother. It was really good. I ended up feeling very full after one cup of it as it was VERY rich. So I suggested we swap and she agreed. It worked out very well as we ended up each having a cup of our own tea and each others. She commented that the smell of this tea was making her hungry. She’s diabetic so she can’t eat much rice so she especially liked this one. We ended up going out to Sushi for lunch afterwards.
I went to Jasmine Pearl with a family member today and she ordered a pot of this. I ended up drinking a cup of this since we ended up sharing our pots. It was delicious! I don’t really have much to add as I drank it fairly quickly. I’ve found that Jasmine Pearl really excels at their green teas and of course green tea is my favorite! Sadly I was so indecisive on picking a green tea (I wanted to buy them all) that I didn’t end up purchasing one. I opted for a pu-erh and a chai instead. Between the two of us we ended up taking four teas home to try.
Not a tasting note…:
So I pulled the paper bag of this out of my tea cupboard since I haven’t had this in a while. I measured the leaf out into the strainer and while the water was boiling. I noticed a worm inside the bag and some webbing stuff. This seriously grossed me out of course and I dumped the tea and stuff out. I’m just thankful I noticed it before I finished making the cup and drank it. Ugh I’m pretty sure all my other tea is worm free as everything else is in airtight containers. I’m going to check everything just to be safe though tomorrow.
When I cash my next check I’m definitely going to start looking for some containers to store my small amounts of tea in. So this doesn’t happen again EVER!. Hopefully I didn’t gross anyone out too bad. I mean I noticed it before even adding water to the cup. If anyone has any small storage container recommendations for little amounts of tea please let me know!
I buy tons of these off Amazon, since they are cheaper than tins and pretty similar already to what lots of tea companies ship their tea in. I find I have to repackage the tea I get from tea companies into these immediately if they come in paper bags, plastic bags, or a bag that doesn’t have a resealable top, just so storage will last longer. They are food-safe aluminum with zip tops. The smallest size is great for about an ounce of tea or less (also awesome for sampler tea swaps), while the next size up is what I use when I have around 1-2.5 ounces of tea (though because white tea is so light and fluffy, even 2 ounces of that I typically have to put into two of the 4.7×7 bags). I always keep a package of each on hand and reorder when I get low.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XG3QR1Z/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Yep, I do much the same as Mastress Alita. If I don’t like the packaging of a tea, it immediately gets put into pouches similar to those. I’m always worried about things getting into tea, which I don’t think I’ve ever found from how I store tea. But sometimes the occasional spider on the wall will make me hope they at least avoid the tea! With that sort of packaging though, I don’t really have to worry about it.
I have found spiders crawling around my tea shelves and cupboards… but then… spiders can get on anything, evil things! I’ve never found them inside any of my tea, though!
Thanks Guys! and Spiders? never seen any in my tea cupboard or near it thank goodness for that!
This is a very stale tea bag from my Grandparent’s house. I think it’s actually the last one that they have of this tea. (The packaging design has been redone since this was bought.)
Stash tea= Childhood Tea so I decided to see how stale this is.
It actually turned out quite nice with some milk and honey. It really reminds me of when I would drink sleepy teas as a child. I always added milk and honey back then and drank chamomile + spearmint blends. This is quite similar to CS Sleepytime tea the original version. Although I remember this tea tasting different when it wasn’t stale it had more of a lemony flavor from the lotus perhaps. Which is why I probably didn’t care for it back then. The smell of the tea bag is also off-putting it smells sort of like lemon floor cleaner or something artifical.
