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“Before I made a cup of this, I made a cup of the previous Eight Treasures Yabao, just to fully experience the difference. The Summer version is so damn beautiful, so dainty & colorful, so...” Read full tasting note
“Squeezed in a sipdown tonight! I accidentally made this with boiling water, my bad, hoping it doesn’t destroy the flavor too much. It smells amazing at least! I will miss this blend, but now I can...” Read full tasting note
“I kept enough of this to make myself another cup and decided to do so today. I gave it a rinse to try to wake up the juniper berries first. It definitely worked! So much pine still though. I feel...” Read full tasting note
“Thank you bonnie for your suggestion of adding a bit of laoshan black to this. I did try it straight again but it was just not happening. With a little laoshan black added I was able to drink and...” Read full tasting note
Ingredients: Yabao, Green Tea Jasmine, Organic Holy Basil, Organic Juniper, Organic Burdock Root, Organic Elderberry, Organic Lemon Peel, Organic Vanilla Bean.
A cozy winter rendition of our popular Eight Treasures tea with juniper and vanilla notes. . . .
Our original Eight Treasure Yabao was such a hit that we had to take the opportunity to blend up a cozy, warm, winter version to pair with the cold weather season. The name “Eight Treasures” comes from our original blend inspiration, a traditional Chinese herbal tea called Eight Treasures that our friends in the tea market would give us whenever we were feeling under the weather.
Our Eight Treasure tea is a celebration of the complex, sweet, sparkling, piney notes of Yabao, a sun-dried wild arbor budset tea that gets better with age. To bring out the natural piney notes in this tea we added juniper berries and holy basil. The citrus sparkle is extended with lemon peel and elderberry, while the whole blend is made thicker and richer by whole vanilla bean, sun-dried Yunnan green jasmine, and burdock root.
This blend evokes the cozy feeling of coming in out of the snow and sitting by the fire with its redwood and juniper flavors, made all the more intriguing by an almost candy-like grape taste bolstered by creamy vanilla.
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Thank you, KittyLovesTea, for a sample of this! This is the last tea from the tea swaps which I have yet to try :)
There was no list of ingredients on the package itself so I relied on steepster + the website to give me info about this tea. Apparently this is a green tea, so I hope I’m not screwing myself over in terms of sleep tonight (I usually try to stop drinking caffeine around 2/3pm..It’s after 6pm :|)
Overall this tea is pleasantly mild. When I smell the dry leaves + the brewed tea I get a bit of spiciness. The taste of the brewed tea is mildly spicy (possibly the burdock root? Holy Basil?) followed by earthiness (green tea/ yabao?) and ending off with a slight sweet note. Going by the tasting notes it looks like this was a seasonal tea a few years ago, which is probably why I’m not picking up vanilla notes and why I can’t pick out the distinct flavours of each ingredient. That’s okay though, because this tea is still quite pleasant and I’ll gladly use it up.
Flavors: Earth, Spices
From the EU TTB – Round 3
My only experience with this variety of tea previously has been a sample of Silver Buds Yabao, which I liked on the whole but wasn’t wild about, if I recall correctly. Nevertheless, I was interested to try this blend upon discovering it in the box. It’s winter, after all, and it both looks and sounds interesting…
I will admit, I was cautious with my brewing parameters. I used 1 tsp of leaf, and gave it approximately 3 minutes in water cooled to around 170 degrees. Possibly I could have gone a little hotter or a little longer, but I wasn’t 100% sure how to approach it in the first instance.
Anyway, the tea. It smells like something that’s GOT to be good for you. Very herbal, a little orangey, a little piney. Like a walk through a forest after rain. The flavour is similar, although not as strong as I was expecting. The main flavour is pine, followed by juniper, and then rounded out with a mild vanilla creaminess. It’s delicately sweet, in the way I remember Silver Buds Yabao being sweet.
It’s undoubtedly an interesting blend, unlike almost anything I’ve tried before. It’s definitely wintery, and beautifully appropriate for a cold, crisp day like today. It’s not within the normal range of flavours I’d choose, but it’s good to challenge yourself sometimes! In this case, it was a pleasant surprise.
Thank you Courtney for the swap which gave me the chance to try this tea. I’m on a mission to try more Verdant tea as they are so highly recommended by many Steepster-ites and friends.
This blend sounds interesting, though a little floral and herbal for my usual taste I thought it should be something I at least try. The blend itself looks nice and fresh with a thick herbal scent with hints of sweet fruit and citrus.
It tastes as strongly herbal as it smells though it’s not overpowering or too strong. It’s an acquired taste, through the herbs (which are dry and thick) there is a soft sweetness like licorice or clove, a herby sort of sweetness, but also sour citrus such as orange peaking through in the after taste. I say the herbs are dry but they are not as bad as some I have tried or bagged tea, so while dry they are still relatively fresh tasting too.
Though it may not taste as pleasant as I had hoped I find it gives me a relaxing feeling. Definitely a tea I can drink and finish my sample of but this one isn’t one for me to think about ordering. Still as far as it goes for a heavy herbal based tea it’s quite nice.
