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This is my answer to Ashmanra’s prompt of Tea From Your Largest Tin.

Got 100g of this one as T2 was closing up it’s US shop. I normally would never get such a large amount of a flavored Chinese sencha, but the flavor struck me right in the nostalgia. Never have I added something to my cart and purchased it so fast lol. Ever since I finished my bag of Lupicia’s Tochitome green, I haven’t been able to find it ever again. I still think of how incredibly delicious the combo of strawberry + sencha were and how much I miss that tea! When I saw that the flavors of this tea are strawberry and cream, I said Sign me TF up!

I tried this hot before making it as a cold brew, which is how I plan on drinking the rest of it down this summer. Hot brew was crisp, creamy, and sweetly strawberry, heavy on the berry. Not very refined, but a decent cup of flavored green. I wouldn’t revisit this tea hot most likely, but I’ve already gone through over 30g in cold brew. I see myself finishing this one fast.

Found this cake in my tea cupboard yesterday. Had no idea I still had this, especially since I just handed the same exact cake off to someone in a stash sale. Figured I might as well chug this one down too.

The storage has been fairly dry for this one, probably around the 50% mark. It was very easy to break apart and toss into my gaiwan. It didn’t take too long for the leaves to expand apart from one another during steeping, filling up my spacious gaiwan. It’s on the fruitier side of a black tea, not particularly exciting, but consistent throughout. It lasted quite a while before I had to call it quits.

Found an unlabled random sample in my cupboard while cleaning it out today. It looked like black tea, so i treated it as such.
Thankfully, I was right! I think it’s a japanese black, by the way the leaves look like small flat needles, with some curled leaves. It has a thin, light brew with bright notes of raisin. It also has a slight floral note, almost like a rose. I also noticed a lightly sour note, but in a pleasant way, like a green grape. I was able to steep this four times before it gave up the ghost.

it’ll be fun to finish this random thing off at work!

Got a lil sample of this from my friend Joe like a year back. It’s been chillin in the back of my mini pu-house until today, I figured I sip it down while re-arranging things and making room for spring teas. It’s got a wonderful campfire smokiness to the dry leaf, and the smoke is carried through the first half of my steeps. The tea soup is smooth and perfectly unctuous, with some minerality to the tail end of each sip. I also notice a nice cooling effect on the tongue, to go along with the warmth of the brew. A nice tea to accompany me while I do my spring cleaning

I’m almost done with this tea and I just realized this isn’t in my cupboard and I have yet to submit a review for it, whoops! This has been my current daily black tea at work. It’s a notch more intense than the unsmoked lapsang from JW that I was drinking daily before this.

Now that I think about it… I think steepster ate my note??!!?!? I remember specifically writing about the absolute tea drunkenness I got from overleafing this at work the first time I had it… I have been fooled! Maybe I’m lil teadrunk right now….

Sipdown! This one didn’t survive very long, I got tired of fiddling with temps and steeping times for this old ass tea, so I cold steeped a jug and finished it off today

Brought this tea with me to Utah while visiting family this past week or so. I was so gooped to see that I still had some of this squirreled away! I almost left this behind in my cupboard, but I am trying to break the habit of letting particularly precious teas hide away until the either go stale or I completely forget and move on. Like the saying, “If you love them let them go,” but more like, “If you love them, DRINK EM FRESH.”

This tea still had it’s intense sweet maple candy aroma and woodsy scent on the dry leaf, carrying over to the subsequent steeps. So intoxicating! I grampa’d and gongfu’d this whenever I got bored of WP’s Silver Snail. I was able to continually brew this tea for a whole day/6-7 steeps damn near every time. The scent of the candy cap mushrooms didn’t fade a bit over the years, and dominated the first 4 steeps each time. The cocoa and woodland notes of the black tea only made for an exciting combination. I’ll be sad when i finish this one, but so glad to have been able to enjoy it as much as I did.

If you know me, you know I am a sucker for a hojicha. ESPECIALLY when it’s a flavored one. cannot remember when I got this one, so I was ready for it to be bland. To my pleasant surprise, the watermelon still slaps! I’m sure it was much louder when I purchased this tea, but it’s still very agreeable. The hojicha base is bright and nutty too, with a wisp of smoke that gives way to the juicy watermelon. I think it’s a wonderful combo, reminds me of some fruit flavored mugicha I savored from Lupicia in the past. Yet another winner from 52Teas, shocker!

Meh. This is perhaps my oldest green tea, if memory serves me correctly. I’m sure that if this was fresh, the flavor profile would be so much more lush. but this tea may well be damn near 9 years old XD

The leaves are still gorgeous, if not a little grey. I still see the beautiful fuzzy bunny tails and the craft of these flat leaves, but the flavor leaves much to be desired. It’s not bitter in any sense, but very faintly vegetal. If la croix did tea……

Note to self: If you get a spring green tea, you best drink it within the year!!! Aging isn’t for every tea. Not even this one. Boo.

Drank this for Ashmanra’s March Sipdown Prompt – A tea with a leaf in the logo. The leaves in question of this logo are more Fig/Grape leaves than a camellia sinensis plant, but it counts! Also, not sure if you can see from the icon tile, but the “peepers” are included as well in the logo. In my humble opinion, they look more like tiddies than eyeballs between the leaves, but I digress XD

Forgot about this tea in my work’s tea cupboard, and it seems to be popular! There are only a few sachets left. Very relieved to not have to drag out finishing this one. It’s still a nice dessert in a cup, but not a favorite. I suppose this could also count as a tea I wouldn’t repurchase, but it was a gift