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Had this with dessert tonight – it went very well with chocolate cake. ;) It was a bit bitter, especially as I got to the bottom of the pot. A combinations of too much spice ‘settling’ and maybe oversteeping the white tea, I think.

I got two steeps out of this tea, the first at 3.5 minutes and the second at 4.5 min. The second one was turned into a very refreshing iced tea, although I like it both hot and cold.

The ginger flavour is the dominent taste although it isn’t overwhelming and it has a nice undertone of juicy peach that takes the edge off of it. The flavour of the green tea itself is largely masked although it lends a sort of freshness to the tea.

A light, pleasent green tea with a hint of fruitiness. I think this would be great iced, too bad this is my last bag of it. :(

Steeped it for 5.5 minutes in boiling water and it seemed to bring out the flavour of some of the other spices a bit more.

I made a strong cup of this forgetting that we had no milk. Ah well, it’s still drinkable even though it’s too bitter for my liking without milk.

It’s interesting that despite it’s robustness it still tastes better plain than the generic orange pekoe made the same way.

Eh, not really impressed with this one. I might just have a stale batch but it tastes slightly sweet, slightly herbal, and not much else. Unless this miraculously cures all my ills I don’t think I’ll be running out to buy this after I’ve finished this container.

Steeped for 2.5 min in boiling water. I’m not tasting any of it’s supposedly ‘sweet, fruity character’. It’s got the roasted ‘bakey’ taste (which has a slightly bitter, almost burnt quality to it) but it’s very much a one note tea and the flavour isn’t very developed.

I like the Formosa Oolong from Lavender Basics better than this one.

A good mid-quality green tea. I steeped it for 2.5 minutes in steaming (not hot!) water and it came out well – refreshing without any bitterness.

I added just a touch of skim milk to this and it really brought out the vanilla and caramel. Yummy! This is probably how I’ll drink it from now on.