New Tasting Notes

Rosy and delicious!

Tea video from one of my favorites places in San Francisco, Samovar Tea Lounge
http://samovarlife.com/tea-101-learn-about-the-different-kinds-of-tea/

Prepared in clay pot holds that holds regular cup of tea. 2 Teaspoons of tea, 200 degree water, and two ceramic tasting cups=5 infusions.

Days 3 and 4, Calendar dates 4/16-4/17. Raised temperature of the water to 210 and 215 respectively. Steeped 10 and 12 minutes respectively using the same 12 oz yixing cup. Tea still holds its taste after 4 days, just altering brewing process.

A peach-juice blended iced ceylon tea. It reminded me of those orange-and-yellow peach gummy candies that look like sour worms except they aren’t actually sour.

This has a nice hint of lemon without being too overpowering. The ginseng is mostly in the aftertaste. Not up there with my favourites, but not bad at all.

yummy…almost nighty-night…time to wind down…

Good nighttime tea.

1st steep, 3min. This is one of my favorite teas. It is very smooth.

Bergamot is almost overwhelming, but the tea itself is strong enough to balance it. I dig.

2 min in the ingenuiTea device, boiling water. First pass on this 3 gm of leaves. I weighed them because i love this tea and it’s pricey for my budget. But worth every cent! Ahhhhh! Honeysuckle flowers and buttered spinach. Each further steep of these leaves will reveal new scents and flavors. Smiling!

I love this tea. When I need something that I know I am going to enjoy I almost always grab this one.

Way to tangy yet still tastes watery. Not something I will buy again.

My boyfriend buys everything and anything with goji berries in it so of course this ended up in our cupboard. We have a big bag of dried goji berries and while they are full of antioxidants, they are not super fun to eat. This tea was tart and a little fruity though. I liked it!

It was good.

I don’t know what it is about Rooibos teas, but I cannot stand them. This tea has a very distinct overwhelming licorice flavor. It’s too rich so that I can’t taste the “lemon grass tang” two leaves’ description claims (sorry guys). I wonder what other people think about this tea. Perhaps, I just don’t like rooibos.

3 min steep in mug with water 1 min off the boil. Selected this today more for health benefits than aesthetics. I’m so enamored of oolongs at the moment that green tea suffers by comparison, and ginsengs have a bit of an obnoxious flavor anyway. It was okay, but I added half an envelope of Splenda and some cool water. Green tea enthusiasts may fare much better, methinks.

Tart, warm, raspberry fruitiness.