New Tasting Notes

This tea breathes honey and canteloupe. I could take a little more sweetness and depth, but the astringency is airy and not overpowering.

From the nose, I am getting a pan-seared scent. The leafs seems to have been over fired, which would give this green an atypical malty attribute (weird, I know). From the taste, there is a distinct butter and nut flavor. The butter is more of an undertone and is hidden behind the subtle “nutiness” and predominate “maltiness.” The nutty flavor could be compared to a chestnut. It is definitely not a common household nut. The tea is light weight with a clean finish.

I hated this tea. NOw, in all fairness, I am not very fond of jasmine teas unless the jasmine is very subtle. I felt the jasmine in this was way too overpowering…I just felt like I was drinking a bottle of perfume. The tins are very nice, however.

Not bad. I overbrewed my first cup and it was very bitter, but my second attempt was much more successful. This is a tea that needs sweetening, but I do lightly sweeten most of my teas anyway. The strawberry flavor is decent, and doesn’t taste as artificial as many berry flavors tend to.

Brewed with filtered water this morning (finally got a water filter pitcher to help with the tap here!), and it shows a definite improvement in flavor!

Nothing special.

Great smokey flavor. Makes me think of the smoke from a camp fire. I would describe it as camping in your mouth…if you get what I mean. Good if you’re in the mood for an earthy, woodsy tasting tea. Could be a little strong and distinct if you’re looking for something with a little more subtlety.

This tea has an intense green tea flavor, almost too instense. I tend to use a smaller portion of leaves and under-steep it to make it less overwhelming. Once the green tea flavor is reduced it’s a good cup of tea.

A nice jasmine tea with a visual floral show. If there is a peach flavor it is too subtle for my tastebuds to notice. The package says to resteep 3-4 times, so I’ll be getting my fill of this tea today.

Creamier and sweeter than expected. I’m not sure if this would get too sweet over time, but I like it.

EDIT: This definitely got cloyingly sweet the more I drank. I’m not sure if I love this.

I like this with a touch of honey when I have seasonal allergies.

This is my daily cup o’ tea. I place six pearls in the bottom of my cup fill with hot water and enjoy. I can re-steep the tea two more times. This keeps me from being a caffeine-fiend at work as the amount of flavour from the tea decreases after each cup. Cleaning up is very easy as the leaves quickly dry out and can be easily removed from the cup with little ick factor.

I adore this type of tea and the Tao of Tea has a very good supply of jasmine pearls. The jasmine flavour is a highlight rather than the dominate flavour. I’ve previously encountered jasmine pearls where the floral flavour becomes overpowering and cloying.

Highly recommended.

I love the taste of this tea.

Brisk, malty, and full-bodied: everything an Assam should be. Great for first thing in the morning.

The Little Teapot, a small tea shop at Montpelier Mansion, Laurel Mansion. This is a small shop and is only for Tea, and some classes about tea

LOVE THIS. I tend to steep a little longer on this one tho. Good Black Tea with Bergamot undertones. Nice dark color. Light scent of tea and very slight smell of citrus.

This is one of my favourite greens with additives. It’s got a really sweet flavour. Hard to describe it exactly, and this is going to sound really strange, but it’s sort of like Dr. Pepper only not. This particular batch that I’ve got though is getting on in age, so it’s turned a little dull, but it’s still enjoyable.

This was AMAZING.

My favourite tea for everyday drinking. Light and sweet and easy to keep drinking.

I think it’s alright. I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it, but I have a few bags I got in a trade and I like it enough to drink them.

As others have noted, it tastes mostly of spearmint (with just a bit of chamomile). This is fine with me, as I like spearmint, but if you don’t, you won’t like this tea.