Pansy Tea from Biofix
Pansy's are one of my favourite flowers so I was intrigued by this tea. After looking it up online I was surprised by its extensive history as a herbal medicinal, especially as a expectorant, a...
View ArticleSilver Needle Premium from Rishi Tea
This is quite a nice tea from which you can draw a lot of complex intricate flavours, over multiple steeps, from a small amount of leaf. Of my two Silver Needles that I own at the moment this is the...
View ArticleCoconut green from Zen Tea
I'm not a huge fan of coconut but I do really like this tea. The dry leaves are long, deep green, and very fresh looking. They are covered with a generous scattering of small flakes of coconut that are...
View ArticleBlack Tea with Tips from HYLEYS
After shopping Tea! With a shorter steep I am getting caramelized yams and stone fruit. edit: I finally got the plum on the third steep this time, sweet and slightly spicy.
View ArticleBillberry from Biofix
When I first bought this tea the box was labelled as blueberry tea. Ironically, it didn't contain any blueberries but only the closely related billberries so I am glad they changed the name. To be...
View ArticleButtered Rum (organic) from DAVIDsTEA
This is a pleasant warming cup and I totally get the warm rum notes. I get the taste of butter but not really the creamy feel of it. It smells and tastes like rum flavoured toffee. My only complaint is...
View ArticleGreen Tea with Prickly Pear Cactus from Big-Active
Really nice when I'm craving something both fuity and floral. Very refreshing. It makes me think of spring!
View ArticleBlack Tea with Tips from HYLEYS
This tea is a very nice Ceylon blend. It has a rich flavour, and resteeps well retaining a full flavour for at least three resteeps. I quite enjoyed it. The dry leaves are small to medium full leaves...
View ArticleCherry Rose Organic from Zen Tea
When I smell this tea brewed it always reminds me of two things, cherry soda crossed with cream soda, and babysoft perfume. Having said that it is a really nice tea for those who enjoy floral cherry...
View ArticleAssam from Posti
The dry leaf appears to be a BOP with some golden tips. The tea smells sweet with fruit references to raisin and plum and faintly traces of cinnamon, and bisuit. It brews to the colour of red wood. It...
View ArticleFrench Vanilla Assam from 52teas
The dry tea smells a little bit of alcohol and a little like licorice allsorts. The leaves are fairly entire and whole dried cornflowers are scattered throughout. The brewed tea smells indistictly...
View ArticleMacchairi Genmaicha from Shirakiku
This tea came in very pretty packaging a translucent green bag with a velum like sticker with the label done in such a way that it looks handprinted in black and red. The label is in Japanese but...
View ArticleGemini from Nina's Paris
The second steep has a stronger fruit flavour, with a nice blend between strawberry,and red grapefruit. The vanilla is still present. The tea is less creamy and is oddly sweeter. Still has very nice...
View ArticleGemini from Nina's Paris
This was really lovely. It has the creamy taste of a really good homemade strawberry ice cream where the cream is allowed to shine and the strawberries are accents. This flavour hits many of the...
View ArticleHappy Holidays from HYLEYS
This tea is light and sparkly and captures the tart bright taste of passion fruit well. The base is tricky, if brewed at boiling it becomes very astringent, but when brewed at off boiling the base...
View ArticleTi Kuan Yin from Ten Ren
This tea has been opened for a while so it is starting to loose some of its potency, but when opened if I was careful I could steep it about 11 times, 7 or 8 of which would have really developed...
View ArticleEssence Tea - Yunnan with Peach and Apricot from Big-Active
This is an interesting fruit flavoured black tea. It is not juicy or very sweet, but it has an interesting flavour and the fruit flavours are very natural and enjoyable. The dry tea smells strongly, of...
View ArticleIndian CTC Strong Mamri from Assam Tea Company (Oakville)
I still really like this tea as a single variety ctc. It's very smooth, and has a depth to its flavour. Today I am getting more of the biscuity notes than anything, good for a lazy sunday. I think I...
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