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Piiiiiiuuuu! Haha! The vanilla flavor is soooo smelly in this.

I want so badly to like this. Especially because it SAYS it’s natural vanilla flavoring, but it tastes chemically. Maybe if I make it with milk? Because it is creamy. I don’t taste the bergamot at all.

Maybe my taste buds are broken! lol I won’t give up on this just yet, but I may have to pawn it off on family members if I don’t find a way to make it enjoyable. Iced, maybe? Hmmm…

Edit: Shorter steeps (like >1 minute) are not as bad.

This smells absolutely amazing! It’s viscosity is also visibly higher than that of other teas—it actually looked thicker as I strained it. It comes out a honey color.

The first sip is actually a bit bitter, but I can taste the sweet jasmine and hibiscus underneath that. I steeped it at 180 for the white tea, but I’ll try 175 to try and play nice with the green tea? Maybe that’ll help. :P

It’s very light and unique. :) It has an intoxicating smell to it. Not really sure what it’s coming from.

I love white and green tea blends, though. Yum! (Plus the skinny tin is super duper cute!)

I got a sample of this quite a while ago. These little pearls expand a LOT so… this tea came out very very strong, but that’s not a bad thing! There’s no funky should’ve-rinsed-the-tea-first aftertaste. (I’m lazy, who has time to rinse their tea? I know, I don’t deserve the tea I drink.)

This the first tieguanyin I’ve had where I could actually taste the smokiness! Usually I’m like, suuuuuure, smoky… uhuh. Nope, this one’s got it in a profound, delicious way!

There’s a little bit of bitterness, probably because I didn’t read the package properly (there’s no English, really, just Chinese or German) so I didn’t realize this was an oolong (I found “Tie Guan Yin” printed sideways on the sample after I’d drowned the tea leaves), and brewed it with boiling hot water. Sorry little tea leafies! The next few steeps will be less shocking, I promise!

In any case, this tieguanyin is different than any other I’ve tasted. I can definitely say I prefer the floral varieties more so than the dark, leather, smoky, manly? kinds. Haha! But it’s still yummy! Just not one I would keep around as a staple. :)

A great, smooth black tea. It’s got a nice nutty bite to it that makes it stand out from other plain black teas. Great quality, much deliciousness, such tea!

Can I just say it’s yummy? :P

Reminds me of Golden Needle from Yunnan Sourcing.

Already sweetened, but not too sweetly. The peppermint is great, and the chocolate adds a smoothness more so than “hey, I’m chocolate!” Tasty, but if you’re after a rather chocolatey tea, you’d have to look elsewhere. Still yummy! :)

Wow, what a chai! I didn’t even brew this properly, and it’s delicious. I can’t wait until I have the time (and patience) to actually use the stove-top and prepare this as intended. The spices really kick. Yum!

I steeped this not quite how you would traditionally make chai—I just added boiling water to the loose leaf and let it brew for five minutes. This is very strong tea! I used about twice the sugar, and added cream (which I rarely do). I pretty much treated it like coffee. The spice felt a little bit lost, and that might be because of how I steeped it. Next time will be stove-top boiling, for sure. :)

Just the smell of this is divine. As someone who adds sweetener to nearly every tea I drink, this one doesn’t need it. It’s that amazing.

A lighter, floral oolong from heaven.

This is so light for a black tea—it has its own fruity sort of flavor that is so yummy! So when I want a black tea with plenty of caffeine, but don’t want the heavy taste, bam! I’m set!