44 Tasting Notes
10 seconds rinse
First stepping 2 min. : A slight Tingling sensation with a subtle spicy taste – A mellow tea with a little sweetness. The soup can taste a little bit mushrooms, slightly malty and maybe leather.
Second stepping 3 min. : The malty flavour is stronger.
WATER USED: Nestlé Pure Life
Flavors: Leather, Malt, Mushrooms, Spicy, Sweet
Preparation
This is my third tasting for this tea cake.
Smell: Forest-like, a hint of burnt honey and tobacco.
1 Rinse, 1st brew: 2 min. 15 sec. : A bright earthy sweet and smooth tea. The aftertaste is pleasant — hint of honey. The flavour of this liquor is a little bit reminiscent of green tea.
Second brew : 3 min. 45 sec. : Smokey and bitter with a little bit of sweetness — odd combination. I may have over steeped the second brew. The bitterness going away while I’m drinking the tea. Now the smokiness is increasing as the tea cool.
WATER USED: Selection 100% Natural Spring Water
Flavors: Bitter, Earth, Honey, Smoke, Smooth, Sweet
Preparation
Smell resinous, earthy and a bit like brown sugar.
The colour of the liquor is a transparent brownish gold.
Western Style – 1 Rinse, 1st brew – 3 min. : Taste earthy green with a sweet black pepper resinous flavour. There are no flavours, at this point, that overwhelm the others — every flavours are expressed equally.
WATER USED: Selection 100% Spring Water
Flavors: Black Pepper, Earth, Green, Resin, Sweet
Preparation
Loose leaves put in a tea bag then poured in a glass tea cup. Liquor is medium opaque and like a brown sugar colour.
Brew #1 3 minutes: A sweet cocoa dark chocolate taste with a slight malty flavour. It is a smooth tea with just a bit of dryness.
Brew #2 4 minutes: A little bit citrusy with cocoa notes. Sweeter as the tea cool down but more dryness than the first brew. The citrusy notes disappear quickly as the liquor cool.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Citrusy, Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Malt, Smooth, Sweet
Preparation
Preparing another tea to help me finish my day. Just comeback from helping a neighbour and did some grocery, very cold temperature (-22C).
Loose leaves put inside a tea bag then poured in a tea glass. A dark-red brown opaque liquor. Smell mildly like bergamot.
A little bit malty with a medium bergamot flavour and I can definitely taste the black tea. A smooth earl-grey blend, with a hint of orange finish taste.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Bergamot, Malt, Orange
Preparation
A pale yellow-lime colour a bit cloudy with a little of small particles. A pleasent gentle creamy peachy vegetal smell.
Poured into a glass vessel
1st step 3 min. and 2nd step 3 min. 30 sec.
A juicy green mouthfeel, smooth and grassy-vegetal sweet-bitter tea. At the second sip, there is a trace of a nutty flavor. The tea change into a marine like taste and the grassy flavour doesn’t overwhelm — lightly dry.
At the second brew, it makes my hands, arms, chest, stomach warm and sweaty.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Bitter, Cut grass, Green, Marine, Nutty, Smooth, Sweet, Vegetal
Preparation
Loose tea put inside a tea bag then served in a glass vessel — a dark clean and clear gold liquor.
Smells: sweet, cookie, citrusy and spicy
It start with a sweet cookie flavour then the grounded black pepper appear. After a few sips, the cookie flavour is weaker and seem to change into cloves. Now, it is a mix of cloves, cookie and spices flavours. A well balanced smooth chai with a hint of a woody flavour.
WATER USED: Nestle Pure Life
Flavors: Black Pepper, Cloves, Cookie, Sweet, Wood
Preparation
Smell: Bergamot
4 min 30 Sec., 210F, 1.2 spoon of loose leaves put in a tea bag.
Served in a glass vessel, a red brown liquor
I used a different bottle water this time.
Sweet bergamot slightly bitter with a grounded pepper flavour — a slight dryness that increased over time. If brew for around 3 minutes with slightly less tea leaves the bergamot will be weaker and probably without the grounded pepper flavour (see previous tasting note).
Water Used: Naya Natural Spring Water.
Flavors: Bergamot, Bitter, Black Pepper, Sweet
Preparation
2 Rinses, 15 sec. and 10 sec.
Smells: Moss; Smoky; Brown Sugar; Earthy
Tea color: Yellow with some bubbles
Brew #1: 2 min. : A little bit of sweetness with a earthy taste going lighter as the tea cool down. Tea has some dryness but still retain a watery feeling. However, the dryness increase has a drink more of it with a tobacco like flavor.
Brew #2: 3 min. : Earthy, bitter tobacco, smoky and sour.
Brew #3: 1 min. : Sweet, dry, bitter, slightly tobacco and earthy feeling. As the tea cool down all flavours are weaker.
Flavors: Bitter, Earth, Smoke, Sour, Sweet, Tobacco
Preparation
10 Seconds rinse – Smell earthy, resin and brown sugar. Many bubbles while I’m pouring the tea. Colour is a kind of brown gold, tea soup is clear and transparent.
Steep #1 3 min. : Sweet and fruity, trying to find the name of the fruit, I know it but can’t seem to remember or is it a sweet vegetable? It is yellow, kind of soft, like cantaloup but it is not or maybe it is a cooked cantaloup. I think it is closer to a cooked pumkin. Also, taste slightly resinous.
Steep #2: 4 min 15 sec. : Slightly sweet and resinous. A slight tingling sensation on the second brew.
Very mellow, and smooth with some dryness. Tea that mainly warm my face.
WATER USED : Naya Natural Spring Water
Flavors: Fruity, Pumpkin, Resin, Smooth, Sweet
