Cup Tea

This has been the nicest tea from this company so far. The black tea is still fairly stale tasting to me, but much less so than the white and green teas have been. Most impressively, the cardamom seems very fresh and aromatic. Really punch, cooling and camphorous flavour that (IMO) totally makes up for the base.

I’m still not sure how I feel about the “teabag attached to the bottom of a cup” product format that these are in, but is this was a typical style of teabag (or even a loose tea) I could see some promise!

I thought this was a pretty unique offering from this company in a see of otherwise very safe and/or classic options. Sadly, it suffers the same problem that most of this company’s teas seem to where the white tea itself is very flat and stale tasting. The “kumquat” element didn’t seem half bad, but I thought it was pretty thin tasting and just a bit on the more generic fruity side of things. Wish it would have been stronger; maybe it could have masked some of the less than great white tea.

So a coworker gave me a bunch of these “instant tea” cups to try where the tea is in a sachet attached to the bottom of the paper cup. Essentially you pour you water in and the tea is restained in the bottom…

I suppose they’re cool for convenience and it definitely makes it as easy one step process, but there’s no way to remove the leaf so I’ve been worried about over steeping. I’ve also been slow to drink through all the flavours he brought me to try because the quality has been… not great.

I suppose it’s not much off from the average off brand grocery store teabag. However, take this tea for instance; it’s a mix of mint and green tea and the flavours were simultaneously very muddy and coarse but also quite flat. Tasted very stale to me. I totally get the need for quick, accessible options for steeping but I’m just a little on the fence about this one. I suppose I see a few situations where it could be a good idea though, like say if you were camping maybe?

The dry leaf of this tea had a really aromatic, fresh aroma of roses but steeped up I was a smidge underwhelmed. The rose notes themselves were pretty solid, though weaker than I had expected them to be given how perfumed the leaf had smelled. Mostly I was turned off by how flat the black tea base was. Really, really tasted stale/old. Boo.