Apple- Manzana from Frutte
This tea from Bolivia really requires one teabag per cup of water otherwise it brews weak. The tea smells like apple cider minus the spice, a bit like a warm version of cidre douce. The flavour is...
View ArticleWhite Tea with Thai Lemon from Big-Active
This bagged white tea has a soft lemon scent leaning towards the smell of lemon verbena and cream. It brews dark for a white tea and tastes silky and sweet, with soft flavour of first cut light hay...
View ArticleLady Grey from Twinings
The smell of this tea reminds me of the lemony aspects of patchouli or of lemon mixed with a drop of juniper essential oil. The tea underneath is sweet but its flavour is mostly hidden by the fruity...
View ArticleHoji-cha Roasted Green Tea from Yamamotoyama
When first brewed the scent of this tea kind of put me off because I smelled a cross between charred meat and charred bread crust, but once that dissipated the tea was pleasant enough. I tasted barley...
View ArticleDragon Pearl Jasmine from Cheong Hing Tea Co, Ltd.
I am not going to rate this tea at the time because I haven't had many Jasmine Pearls before and really don't have a point of comparison. These pearls appear to have been naturally scented there are...
View ArticleCanadian Breakfast from Nourish Tea
Dry the leaves of this bop ceylon smell of raisins, a little sour and dusty. It brews to a dark mahogany. The tea smells of malt and something sweetly vegetal like cooked peas overlain by lemon and...
View ArticleSorrel with Ginger from Tops
The company that produces this tea is kind of interesting because it has a mission statement to use local ingredients whenever possible and even grows some of the spices it uses on its own 20 acre farm...
View ArticleRandom Steepings from Various Artists
Sometimes when I'm craving something sweet but not too sweet I like to mix Teaopia/Teavana Caramelissimo with a light to medium bergamot earl grey(this time CJay teas option). This time I blended them...
View ArticleLopchu Flowery Orange Pekoe from Lopchu Tea Estate Darjeeling
Lopchu tea estate is located between Darjeeling and Teesta in West Bengal. The majority of its tea is from bushes originally from Yunnan province in China. The tea estate is proud to sell 100% of it's...
View ArticleWhite Cherry from Earth Teaze
I bought this tea and two others frankly because they came in nice tins and I need tins and they were on sale so I can't complain. However, this is supposed to be a Cherry flavoured white tea and...
View ArticleMorning Dew from Teaopia
This was a nice floral and fruity blend. It has some similarities to Davids Three wishes, but three wishes for some reason always reminds me of watermelon and summer whereas this one has a spicier...
View ArticleWinter Green Tea from Bastek
I really wish I had bought another box of this when I first found it because I find it to be a really nice, warm and comforting tea on chilly nights. It has the same gunpowder base of the other Bastek...
View ArticleMonk's Blend from Teaopia
This was a nice example of this type of blend with the grenadine being fairly mild and not to sweet and a more dominant cool vanilla that added creaminess and avoided the tendancies of vanilla...
View ArticleGreen Tea from Qiandao Yuye
This tea was grown in the 1000 island lake district in Hangzhou, China. The dried leaves are are twisted and range in colour from light to dark sage and olive green are quite crispy and taste and smell...
View ArticleTung Ting from Ten Ren
This Tung Ting has quickly become one of my favourite everyday green oolongs and has left me with a desire to explore more of its type. It is affordable and has a flavour profile that lies between the...
View ArticleRandom Steepings from Various Artists
I added about 1 part lavender buds to 4 parts of a light roast Dong Ding and the went really well together. The oolong is very floral with acents of gardenia and carnation and the lavender helped to...
View ArticleAmaretto Cherry from Teaopia
I get a little bit cherry at first sip but the dominant flavouring is amaretto. The scent is stronger than the flavouring. The tea underneath has a touch of astringency and has a touch of cocoa in it....
View ArticleChina Keemun from Zen Tea
This tea brews to the colour of maple wood.smells a little like something that has been treated with mild hickory smoke, mixed with chocolate and dried figs. It tastes of charred sweet potatoe, a touch...
View ArticleGreen Tea with Orange from Big-Active
This tea is another nice presentation of a simple flavouring. It smells and tastes of dried orange with peel use in baking sweetened with dried pineapple which brings out a slight juciness to the...
View ArticleEssence Tea - Yunnan with Peach and Apricot from Big-Active
Pleasant for breakfast. Less licorice in the base this time, pleasant earthiness/ bitterness mixed with natural tasting apricot with a touch of peach.
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