New Tasting Notes

I’m a Mint-Freak! If you are, too, this is the Tea for YOU! Everything about it is a real eye opener! The smell, the taste, the color…all fantastic! I absolutely LOVE it! Totally intense!

Pleasantly surprised. Wasn’t as overwhelmingly fruity as the aroma might lead you to expect.

This is the last of my stash of this tea…bummer…oh well…drink it up and on to the next!

Peppermint + Honey = YES PLEASE.

This is a German bagged tea my best friend gave me. I’m not sure what’s in it, but it is delicious. Easily one of my new top favorites. I’ll be paying her to ship me boxes of it from Germany when she goes back.

195F, 2-3 min (somewhere thereabouts). Very light and soft. Made a nice sized pot for two. :)

This is one of my favorites when it comes to oolong. The grapefruit flavor helps to tone down the brisk smoky oolong flavor, which can be overpowering on its own. Grapefruit oolong is a great introductory oolong.

As a standard peppermint tea its ok – nothing special, run of the mill, not bad. As with most things it improves with a bit of honey and some good conversation.

Great tea.

I always loved being able to buy a million different unsweetened ice teas in Japan. They’re everywhere… It’s nice to see Ito En marketing them to the US audience. Now if only we could find them in S. Korea….

It was light and tasty.

I start every morning with a cup of sencha. I’m so glad we brought a couple hundred grams of this back from Japan with us. I’ll be sad when we finish it off next month.

Lot of soymilk, quite tasty

I didn’t realize that 1st Flush is typically an afternoon tea. I was drinking it in the morning. Der.

Thanks to Jack’s mom. It’s my first flowering tea and it was interesting to watch the flower blossom. Its maybe not the most appetizing thing to see in the bottom of your glass, but it has it own organic charm to it. It has a sweet fruity aroma with a very subtle flavor. I enjoyed most of the glass until the bud became really exposed at which point the tea became much more bitter (maybe it was over-steepeed?). Anyways, nice and smooth, a good calming choice.

Essential after a heavy lunch.