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I’m trying to use up what I have stored at work, so I can bring in new tea to try.

I’m liking this tea better the second time around. Steeped it for less time and it came out less astringent, and much more buttery! This is the kind of green tea I enjoy. It’s going to be a good Friday morning!

So I decided to make it a Darjeeling day! The dryleaf of this doesn’t smell quite as much like Oregano and herbs as Butiki, but it is extremely similar. The first smell I have of the liquor is eerily similar as well.

The taste of this is different from the Butiki’s Giddapahar Darjeeling Extra Special in two ways: 1) The coppery note is not as bright and I actually prefer it this way because then I don’t have that much of a pucker reaction. 2) There is no seaweed green tea quality, it’s much more like a black tea. Although I don’t miss the seaweed, I miss the creaminess of the Butiki tea.

In this one the two flavors combine better just because they are not as distinctive, which results in an apricot or citrus type taste when I taste them together. They don’t fight each other for dominance.

At one point I even thought the tea tasted like gummy peaches… but that could have been a momentary hallucination because I didn’t taste it anymore after that one sip. Maybe I just want gummy peaches and not darjeeling anymore. hmmm…

So I’m trying this one more time because I really didn’t like it the last time I had it. It tasted like a sea-weedy green tea to me. This time I used less leaf and steeped it at a lower temperature it was better.

There are dueling flavors going on in this tea. The first is a vegetal, creamy quality that tastes like a green tea. As it cools, this develops a little more of a nutty flavor. The second flavor is a very bright, tart, almost coppery tone. It is a distracting flavor and almost makes my mouth pucker each time I sip.

These two qualities kind of fight for attention in my mouth, almost always ending in the coppery flavor winning out in the aftertaste.

Although I like it better than the first time I tried it, this just isn’t my tea. Off to Rosehips it goes! :-)

It smells like a watermelon jolly rancher! And tastes like it too! This is a fun iced tea. It’s not gourmet. It’s not natural-tasting. It’s not elegant. It does however have it’s own sweet charm just like candy does. The base is dark, rich, and slightly bitter. Again it’s not the finest, tastiest base, but it works well with the flavoring and provides a nice mouthful.

All in all, it’s a nice contrast to a lot of the "serious"teas I’ve been drinking lately. It’s funny how each tea has its own personality!

Today is a pearl kind of day! Although I prefer black Dragon Pearls because they are more like chocolate, these really are nice. The jasmine is strong, but not over the top. The green tea adds a nice, warm vegetal quality to the tea.

A solid tea for the morning. Sweet and dark- just what I want.

It’s rainy and chilly today and I needed something to warm me up, so I figured this was the perfect opportunity to try out this tea.

I’ve had Tulsi a few times now and I’m beginning to think it’s just not for me. That being said, the ginger in this is powerful in a good way- lots of bite! The rest of the herbs and the berries really sweeten out the ginger. As it cools, the Tulsi is less noticeable and I’m starting to enjoy the tea more. It’s subtley sweet and surprisingly rich. I thought it would be more floral, like bad potpourri, but it is much much better than that.

This is a really good one! Sweet, juicy, and tastes like real passionfruit with a little bit of apple.

My sister liked this one because she “didn’t need to add sugar!” Imagine that! Tea without sugar! ;-)

Thank you, Shelley_Lorraine for this tea!

At first I couldn’t detect any peach or jasmine. It is a lovely, lightly vegetal, creamy green tea that tastes almost a bit salty. It’s kind of like an oolong. I’m really enjoying just that part of this tea.

As I drink and it cools, the peach grows out of tea. It blossoms, sprouts fruit and ripens until it’s dripping its juice into my mouth! yummy!

Strangely enough, I don’t taste jasmine, but I feel it. There is a cooling sensation and slight roughness that can only be from jasmine. Definitely one of the best teas I’ve had from teavivre.

Momo box tea!

The dry leaf smells like plum and rooibos. I didn’t smell much vanilla off the dryleaf.

The liquor smells so divinely fruity. yum! And it tastes slightly like this stuff that I get on Amorgos (Greek Island) that’s made of fermented figs- All it’s missing is the alcohol content! This is the second plum tea I’ve had recently that would make an excellent hot toddy! I really need to try this out in the winter with some rum! :-)

As I continue to sip it, I pick up more on the subtle vanilla which sweetens the plum. It could have been too tart. The rooibos is a creamy kind, not a lot of menthol action going on here like I get with some of the more potent varieties. Like the vanilla, it works to mellow out the tartness of the plum, but also lends a darkness which rounds out the flavor so that the plum is really juicy and full.

The mouth-feel kind of reminds me of a hard candy- it’s that full and juicy.