New Tasting Notes

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.

I came across this tea at first in a assorted pack from Twinings, and fell in love. It’s best black—with just a hint of sugar. It has a slight lemon afterglow to it.

I’m always a bit cautious about Bigelow, but this was pretty good. Minty and refreshing, and yet still light and somewhat smooth. For some? It might be a mint lovers’ dream, ha ha.

My sister has this and I love it, though I may be a little biased as I love mint teas in general. However, its not nearly as good as Ineeka’s Mint tea, I won’t lie.

Talk about an excellent chamomile tea – smooth, light and relaxing. One of the most wonderful chamomiles I’ve found in awhile, actually. What can I say? I’m a huge fan of Ineeka’s teas right now.

It just arrived in the mail today from France. With our standard 7g, 750 ml boiling water, 5 minutes, the aroma knocked my socks off. The white tips are also pretty. It’s quite mild.

I am forever on the hunt for a perfectly balanced chai, though to me this was not as smooth as Ineeka’s Ma-Chai? It was still both good and not so spicy I couldn’t taste anything correctly, very balanced.

I tried this at my friend’s house and discovered she has amazing taste in tea, ha ha. The combination of flavors really does almost do a dance on your tongue and a bit down your throat as it goes. Recommended if you like any of the following: mint tea, rooibos tea AND/OR chamomile tea.

I just don’t think green rooibos is for me. The strawberry/citrus blend is wonderful—though my bag seems (happily) free of marshmallows—but there is an underlying wrong, chemical-y taste to the whole concoction. It’s not undrinkable, but I’m going to have to try icing it to see if that cuts the weird flavor.