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This is my other lovely sample to see how Teabox performs with their blends. And the description of it was spot on. The smell is pleasantly headed by the cardamom then followed by rose. I couldn’t help but think of Turkish coffee, which is one of my preferred desserts. The taste is oddly creamy for a black tea, but possessing the kind of briskness you’d get with an Earl Grey. Instead of bergamot though, cardamom follows. The black tea itself has a little bit of a cocoa note, but more cocoa than malt which is a bit unusual.Still tastes like black tea.

Yes, I recommend a try of this if you know the ingredients and like them. It is more on the sweet side than spicy, so it can potentially make a good dessert tea or perhaps an everyday tea. Like one reviewer said on the Teabox website, this is the kind of tea that would cater to an Earl Grey lover. It’s also a fainter black tea making it more appealing for maybe someone just introduced to tea, a green tea drinker, and definitely an oolong drinker and white tea drinker.

My main criticism is that it was weak for the teaspoon I used. The first steep was strong, but the second one was a fainter version of the first. Good, but I’d grab it on discount. $21.50 is a little much for a hundred grams of this.

And this had clove and high caffeine before? My bag says different. Weird.

First to add, and the photos are acting up…dang it. Okay, onward.

The smell of the dry leaf is fantastic and welcoming. It smells like chocolate covered strawberries powdered by cinnamon. But the taste fell flat compared to the smell. I had about a teaspoon, and I knew I should have used two. This was a good black tea. It was incredibly smooth and subtle with a slight sweetness added by the strawberry and vanilla. But all the ingredients came out as notes rather than full fledged tastes making this tea entirely too meek and subtle for what I wanted.

I need to try this again with more leaves and I would others recommend a try of it. As for the price for a full ounce, I personally hesitate.The ingredient’s on the weaker side especially compared to the boldness of this company’s regular Darjeelings.

I tried it Western to see what I get. I knew that Gong Fu was probably better, especially for a caffeine kick. But it tasted just as good. I got the same array of tastes but in a blended form. The white grape taste that Brenden mentions also turns out much stronger, the same with the grapefruit note. More than likely, though, the white grape taste is what I taste as grapefruit. Still really like this one.

Tasting note 400!

And I am so glad I got this tea on sale. It is low caffeine, and I love it. The notes from Teabox are accurate as always. A rose, grassy citric smell emanating from the dry leaves, and rose and freshly cut greens from the cup. Steeped as instructed, 3 teaspoons for five minutes, and it is lovely. I didn’t expect it to be as refreshing as it was. There is absolutely no astringency or bitterness. It is oddly refreshing and hydrating, tasting exactly like a combination between rose water and cucumber infused water. I don’t think that I would have needed to read Big Daddy’s note to get that impression. It also still tastes like a fairly light and delicate white tea with some hay notes (in longer steepings), but headed by the clean rose and cucumber.

I partially get the sweetness of this tea, but it’s far from a sugary sweetness. Rose and cucumber are the sweetest things that I could compare it to.

I don’t know how many steeps I’m going to get out of this, but the smell remains quite strong. I hope I get the same thing or some thing better soon because it is lovely. I would actually rate the taste closer to a 95 because I like how rounded and delicate it is, but the price is incredibly steep being close to forty dollars for fifty grams. Another thing to consider with price is how many leaves you should use per cup: 3 tablespoons for every six ounces or 2.5 GRAMS FOR EVERY .9 OUNCE. Hence my getting it on discount with a coupon.

This is an awesome white tea that I think people should try…when it’s on discount.

Okay, I now REALLY love this tea. And of course, that is due to it being there in a time of need. If you just want to read about the tea, scroll past this next paragraph.

So here’s the story of the morning. I wake up at 6. Get ready for an Anthropology Department Field Trip to the Chicago Field Museum for a new exhibit on Ancient Greece. We are supposed to meet a bus stop far away. I go to my car when it is 31 degrees outside. It’s frozen shut. And. Frozen LOCKED. I call my good friend for an emergency pick up. He cannot pick me up. But. He tells me that the bus is reconvening at the other side of campus. I.E. A 25 minute walk from where I am in 32 degrees. A 10 minute run in 32 degrees with my veins pumping 99 degrees in frustration.

Finally. I get to the hall. And my tea is ready in my lovely sixteen ounce tumbler, white foaming at the top in a deep, amber red color. I take a sip of my incidentally Grandpa Styled oolong, and it tastes just like chestnuts and malted butter. It is sooooo good. I chugged it down.

I really love this tea for its sweetness and thick nuttiness. It is also INCREDIBLY strong and complex. I put approximately a tablespoon, maybe less of the leaves and it makes the most balanced and thick bodied sweet chestnut drink that I’ve ever had.

I highly recommend this tea to try something different and something to have if you are giving up coffee. The roast has a quality like coffee, but it doesn’t quite taste like coffee. It is also REALLY sweet for a straight tea. Like brown sugar sweet. I might even be bad and make a chai out of it…

Back to the tea by itself, it works great Gong Fu, but I personally prefer it Western because soaking it for long periods of time collects all the flavor notes on here and compiles them into one harmonizing brew. The same Grandpa as witnessed here. The Gong Fu actually makes it too strong for me even with smaller leaf amounts.

With all of that said, I think this is more for an experienced drinker or for someone looking for a possible coffee alternative. I would also look at all the notes on here. Each give an accurate description and all of them are slightly different. I personally think that a black tea drinker might like this, but a green tea drinker would love the nutty qualities. An oolong lover more than likely would enjoy this. As for someone trying tea for the first time, he or she might not recognize the taste. Nutty or roasted might come to their mind, but again, the flavor for this tea is complex and fairly unusual for a every day palette (unless you’ve had Rui Gui’s or Dong Dings). You experienced drinkers who know what you are looking for, I recommend this tea. For those of you beginning your addiction, I’d maybe wait on this one and try it later a long your path…unless you’ve liked darker oolongs already.

Round five. “Creamy dessert” is now at least appropriate to describe it, but it needs just a hint more of vanilla. I can still taste the saffron and the almond, but even after two and quarter tablespoons of grounded vanilla bean, the vanilla fades out quickly. I am so close to getting it right. So close.

So disappointed. I like lychee. I like coconut. But I don’t like wax tasting teas. Introducing, tropical candle-the drink! Brought to you by Yankee Candle and the Tea Forte.

Okay, pretty much the same as last time and did not finish a cup.

Artificiality, you need to stop messing with good tea flavors. Well, I love the combo. The coconut is really nice, the mango is a great follow up, and the tea base is good. Oddly enough, this is a flavored tea that should be Gong Fu’d. But the chemical used to flavor the tea overwhelms the natural taste of the green tea making it kinda soapy. Only was able to finish one cup, unfortunately.