Just discovered Verdant has spun off a sister company called Chroma devoted to blends. What’s exciting is many of the retired Verdant blends are now available again under the Chroma label. I picked this up along with their famous Chocolate Laoshan Genmaicha as this blend, which includes amongst other things rose, cardamom, strawberry, goji berry, peppermint, and coriander, sounded very intriguing.
The tea brews up a nice faint pink, thanks to the hibiscus in the blend, and later deepens to crimson-amber as it continues steeping. First sip tastes medicinal and woodsy. The white tea base and peppermint are the dominant flavors and the latter eventually overwhelms as is often the case when peppermint is involved. A punch of cilantro hits you in the finish. I didn’t taste the strawberry, rose, and other tea ingredients as the mint made everything taste like tea tree/eucalyptus.
Flavors: Medicinal, Peppermint
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Ooh, I didn’t know Chroma was owned by Verdant! I guess they’ll have to move up a few notches in my to-order list. :P
I had no idea! I need to take a lot at Chroma.
So I gave in and ordered everything they have in stock LOL! I’ll have to go back for the other 3 later. I’m actually very impressed with how inexpensive their teas are… We’ll see how I feel about them when they arrive! :D
Wow! Can’t wait to hear all about these! I thought Verdant was collaborating with Chroma. Had no idea they were one and the same.
I didn’t know about Chroma Tea either! Thanks for the info!
@Cameron B – looking forward to the reviews. the two i bought didn’t impress me so much but i know verdant’s blends were very highly regarded back in the day
@Shae – looks like they wanted to reserve the verdant brand for straight teas. what’s nice is you don’t have to make separate orders for both as the chroma teas are available through the main site
Ooh, I didn’t know Chroma was owned by Verdant! I guess they’ll have to move up a few notches in my to-order list. :P
I had no idea! I need to take a lot at Chroma.
So I gave in and ordered everything they have in stock LOL! I’ll have to go back for the other 3 later. I’m actually very impressed with how inexpensive their teas are… We’ll see how I feel about them when they arrive! :D
Wow! Can’t wait to hear all about these! I thought Verdant was collaborating with Chroma. Had no idea they were one and the same.
I didn’t know about Chroma Tea either! Thanks for the info!
@Cameron B – looking forward to the reviews. the two i bought didn’t impress me so much but i know verdant’s blends were very highly regarded back in the day
@Shae – looks like they wanted to reserve the verdant brand for straight teas. what’s nice is you don’t have to make separate orders for both as the chroma teas are available through the main site