TWG Tea Company

Good tea. Half way (balanced) between strong English Breakfast and Earl Grey. Not as tanic as the English Breakfast, not as aromatic and citrusy as the Earl Grey.
Indeed for breakfast; I don’t like it with milk. It doesn’t need it. Very appropiate to drink in the russian way, very strong and adding hot water along the way. My wife likes it very, very strong and loaded with sugar.
Many TWG’s teas are gimicky, but this one isn’t. It is indeed a breakfast tea with a recognisable Russian flair.

It is difficult to find the mango advertised. Instead, it smells and tastes like peaches.

Very similar candy-like tea as other offers from TWG (Wedding party, Tea Party, etc). This one is more direct to the fruit (peach/apple) and less balanced. I didn’t like its light body but that makes it good for some contexts. It is an enjoyable infusion to share in a light and playuful mood.

Sipdown! 9/365

Dang. Waited too long on this for sure. It’s noticeably stale, or at least, I think that’s the flavour I’m getting out of it. I can also taste the metallic tang of a too-old green tea base. I think I can get a whiff of pineapple if I sniff the tea really hard, but the staleness overwhelms anything in the flavour. Too bad, this is probably one of the only cups of tea I’ll actually dump out. I even drank yesterday’s Sencha because it had some redeeming qualities… this has none. Oh well. At least there was only a cup’s worth.

ETA: I see from other reviews that there is ginseng in here. I’m not overly familiar with ginseng in tea, but it’s possible that it’s contributing to the flavour I dislike here.

I thought it was just green tea but it’s not. Smelled like strawberry and even after drinking I felt like I’m in the middle of the berry garden. The best fancy tea ever!

I was on a Singapore Airlines flight the first time I had this tea. I immediately fell in love with it. I love strong teas and I thought the aroma captured very well the Paris-Singapore romance. I can’t describe it any other way. I have tried other TWG blends, but my favourite by a far is the Paris-Singapore blend.

Smell like dried mango, pineapples and berries. Taste pineapple, young dates, and barley.

very lightly aromatic. beautiful early in the morning. i drink it first thing when i reach office. the cornflowers give a nice flowery aroma to the tea. i drink it just with hot water, without any milk or sugar. i dont think the tea can stand up to the fat in the milk.

A very lack-lustre earl grey. You can barely taste the bergamot, and the underlying Darjeeling is particularly disappointing. Overpriced for a subpar cup of tea.

So my mom went to Taiwan and came home with various samples of tea. This was one of them. This is a good tasting earl grey. It was not bitter and did not need any honey or lemon. It steeped to a nice golden brown liquor. The bergamot is perfectly blended. It gave me a good caffeine kick and helped with this cold I am having. Good tea overall.

Still need to try this iced. I think I’ll dump the rest into a pitcher and stick it in the fridge. Having it hot with cream right now and it’s not bad for a tea that has been languishing in my cupboard for several years. The mint is mellow and there is an undefinable fruitiness to it followed by a flatness on the finish. Not bad, but not one I’ll buy again.

I don’t know what I did, but this cup isn’t right. I get some nice mint, but the rest of it is just blah. I have a feeling that this will be excellent cold steeped.

Oh wait! I added a little cream to this before I dumped it and it seems to have come alive! I taste more green with some cooling mint and a little red fruit in there. Hello!

Mistakenly steeped this green at black temps. It’s surprisingly not bitter considering my abuse of it, but I’m not getting much flavor from it either. A little grassy, a little buttery and flat. I kept this tea hoping I’d find a way to love it, but it’s over between us. Welcome to dumpsville, WIHK.

Oh! This is strange! I don’t have any tasting notes for this, so I’m not sure that I ever tried it. It may have been a casualty of having too much tea! It took me a minute to place the flavor at the front of the sip as rhubarb, but it is definitely there now. There is a slight bite at the sides of my tongue at the back of the sip. I wouldn’t say I like this tea at this point, but it has caught my attention and will be spared from the get rid of pile for the moment.
Self, if you are reading this… try cold steeping next time!

I’m not big into oolongs, so I’m not quite sure how I ended up with this tea. It may be one of my husband’s, but I don’t know for certain.
It has a nice light oolong scent. Smooth flavor on the start of the sip with mild notes of grass in the background that come out a little stronger in the aftertaste. It has a nice richness that feels sweet at the back of the sip. It’s nice for an oolong, more enjoyable than a lot that I have tried, but it isn’t going to be something that I reach for.

As a huge fan of passionflower and green tea, this blend is one of my favourites!

Wow… looks like this has been kicking in my cupboard for six years! Time has not served it well. It tastes like a light ethereal generic fruit tea with nothing notable or exciting going on. I’m dumping this cup and composting the rest of the bag. My first log of this tea was way more positive. This is what I get for letting tea sit!

This is strange. Today I’m tasting something savory… like curry. Cumin? This can’t be right? The scent from my cup is so light that it is hard to tell by anything other than taste. Did my cup not get washed well enough in the dishwasher? I’m confused, but on this cold morning anything that is warm is welcome.

I did it again. I didn’t read previous tasting notes and steeped this like a black tea. It’s still pretty nice tho. Mild ginger with strawberry. Might be nice cold steeped as summer seems to have arrived early February this year. :/

Ginger and strawberry? Is that what I’m tasting? I didn’t realize this tea was a white/oolong and steeped it at black temps. It has a slight green tang to it. It is reminding me of Mariage Freres La Route Du Temps, which is also a ginger green tea, but has a little more kick than this tea. So far this tea is okay, but I’ll have to try it at different steeping parameters.

I’ve had this poor tea for several years and never made a tasting note! :( I must have tried it when I first bought it, lured by the promise of anise and fruit. Now that it is undoubtedly past it’s prime, I’m digging it out of my cupboard and revisiting it. Once steeped it smells a little like NY Breakfast, one of my three favorite TWG teas. The malty scent with the promise of something richer. The sip falls a bit flat with a little malt flavor on the back. I could taste fruit on my first few sips, but I’ve lost that now. I think I can imagine a little anise? I added a bit of cream mid cup and that seems to have destroyed all the nuances that were left in this ancient tea. The Weekend In _____ teas seemed so intriguing that I ordered several, but I don’t recall any of them standing out as a really enjoyable amazing cup. I still have a bit of this left in the bag, so maybe a cold steep would do it some good.

A gift from my friend. I love this tea. I usually go for stronger black tea (English Breakfast is my favorite), but this green tea is awesome. I put half a teaspoon of sugar (or one spoon) in it, and it just melts my bones and muscles. Sometimes it comes out a bit bitter when you leave the tea in the water for too long (like dry wine), but it’s still great.