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Going to do some quick notes on some teas I tried recently. ^^

This is a really nice peachy green tea. I really liked it. The sencha is a good quality, and the white peach flavor goes very well with it. Some rose notes are there but it’s delicate, not overwhelming. The white peach notes and a splash of mango notes were great.

Thank you for this delicious sample, Cameron B. ^^

While finishing up the Watership down Netflix series, I was sipping on this and it’s pretty yummy. Mild though. I was expecting the in your face flavor like Vicky’s Sponge Cake (which was raspberry all the way) that I tried the other day.

It was a nice blend of the red fruits, and you can’t really go wrong with cherry, strawberry, raspberry except if you make it artificially sweet (and this one doesn’t) so there’s no cough syrup taste at all. It is very mild though.

Thank you Cameron B. for the sample. :D

Quick note.

This was good but I didn’t taste any cocoa/chocolate though. It was more like caramel, maple, brown sugar, cookie/biscuit taste with cardamon. I thought the best part was the biscuit taste. ^^

Strange but I could’ve sworn I wrote about this… Ah, maybe it was with the Mandala’s mini tuocha variety package that I enjoy so much. That’s how I tried it the first time. It came with 2 or 3 of them in it, and I decided this is the one that I prefer over the others.

I felt lazy so I’m just kindasorta counting as I’m drinking this after a good dinner. I love mini tuochas, those flat little disks of pu erh from white2tea, the individual sample packets from TeaVivre on evenings like this. hehe No weighing, just open it up and put it in your gaiwan and enjoy.

It’s a very dark liquor, coffee colored, has a rich earthiness to it, some leather aroma as well as flavor with nut notes. It’s earthy, creamy, smooth, and very clean. No fishiness, mustiness or mushroom flavor. It’s something I have often reached for on my lazy nights (like tonight). It’s very forgiving as far as steeping time and as you continue, the dark rich earth is replaced with a warm creamy sweetness and the nut notes come forward. Can get quite a few infusions out of this little tuocha.

Nice daily drinker.

I guess I’m one of the outliers concerning this tea. I like it. I don’t like red apples, I like granny smith apples and that’s the taste I’m getting. Bits of Tsugaru apples in here. It’s very fragrant with the smell of green apples. There is a tiny bit of the Jolly Rancher apple candy taste but the cherry Jolly Ranchers, watermelon and green apple ones were always my favorite so I guess that’s why I don’t mind. There is a little tartness but not much.

I’m beginning to work on the Bird & Blend Tea gifts that Cameron B. sent me. :D Another company I wanted to try. Thank you Cameron B.!

I put 3.5g in 150 ml so I didn’t have a problem with it being weak that some said in their reviews. I have a bad bad bad habit of drinking tea on an empty stomach. I can get away by sipping Jin Xuan or Lishan, something creamy, but this one burned a hole in my tummy lol. Preparing it this way, I’m sure, didn’t help.

This to me, is raspberry tea. A good one if you love raspberries. I tasted very little of anything else. I loved that it was tart and not sweet. That’s how I love my raspberries, just straight. I like to make the funny face of tasting sour things. ^^ Having said that, I think I would’ve liked a little more cake, coconut or cream in this.. To get that sponge cake taste going on.

Wow. Super super silky Lishan.

The light to medium green leaves were tightly rolled into little balls. Some tea dust, nothing major. Some stems, nothing major. The wet leaves were highly aromatic: Floral, orchids, vineyards, cream, vegetal, umami.

The liquor was a very light, clear, yellowish-green color. I found it had a really great flavor profile that suits me. Light floral (not heavy at all), some mineral, umami, buttery, cream, steamed greens. The super silky, creamy texture, the rich body with very light floral notes that were long lasting, as was the natural sweet aftertaste. It continued to linger in my throat and back of my tongue. Throughout the infusions, no bitterness, light or no astringency, and remained silky smooth throughout. Sometimes some Lishan has sour notes at the end, this one didn’t at all.

6g, 190°F, 110ml, rinse, 9 steeps: 10s, 15s, 25s, 35s, 45s, 55s, 65s, 75s, 120s

Last of the Lupicia samples that were gifted to me from Cameron B. :D I wanted to try all the Lupicia ones since it will be difficult to buy them soon. :( I am so thankful that I got to try them. This is another one that is hard to get.

Lots of reviews on this so here is my 2cents. ^^ The yellow-greenish liquor has the flavors of a good sencha base, umami, seaweed, oceanic, with a touch of pomelo with little or no astringency. Clean mouthfeel. The great sencha base with the pomelo notes makes this a winner.

Another sample from Cameron B. :D Thank you <3 I am so glad that I got to try this one.

Ahhh, the amanatsu fruit from the Yamaguchi prefecture. I did a lot of world traveling with my parents growing up and we went to Japan a few times. I remember, a little me, saying to someone there “I liked the tangerines back home (America) better because these aren’t sour.” Of course, my parents scolded me for being rude to whoever gave it to me. I still ate lots of them during one summer there. ^^

The aroma of the golden liquor was like a delicate sweet tangerine and vegetal. It was pleasantly surprising to me to smell the latter note so strongly. Unfortunately, they don’t have this on their site anymore (if they do, I can’t find it.) but I think it’s a Taiwan Dong Ding oolong. It was sweet and mellow, with some floral-osmanthus aroma (the floral flavor really came out in the 2nd steep), and a velvety, creamy mouthfeel. It’s different than all the Lupicia samples I’ve tried in that the flavors are so delicate. There was no bitterness, it was slightly astringent on the second infusion. It had a good finish with a citrus-tropical fruit aftertaste.

190-200F, 6g, 6 oz, 2 steeps: 2 min, 3min

Yay, one with lots of good reviews already. lol

Little cute snail looking things, smelled of bread, chocolate, and malt. After the rinse, they began opening up, it had a little stonefruit aroma, toast, malt and chocolate, sweetness aroma. It’s a very smooth, comforting (comforting is a big thing to me I guess lol), a tasty cup of tea. I can really get into black tea if they were all this good. I like to repeat myself so I’ll just say again that all my life I was a matcha and sencha type of girl until the last 6 months. Throughout all the infusions, I didn’t detect any bitterness nor astringency… Just creaminess, a buttery feeling, a thick mouthfeel and a great aftertaste of cocoa, toasted bread, some raisins and molasses.

5g, 205°F, 110ml, rinse, 8 steeps: 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s, 35s, 40s, 45s