English Tea Store

Intensely floral. This is for folks like me who enjoy a really fragrant cup.

This tea is my absolute favorite in terms of wake me up breakfast teas. It’s strong enough to stand up and dance on the table. It’s also stiff enough to stand up to a second steeping, which is not a bad thing in tough economic times. I buy this one by the pound, as it’s my daily drinker.

Seems to have lost a lot of the aroma that I remember from last time. I think it’s one of the darkest ‘brewing’ white teas I have ever seen…

It’s relaxing and tasty but still can’t pick out the Peach or the Apricot…

This is the perfect pair of peach and apricots when you first start the infusion. By the time it gets to the end of the steep it’s more of a grassy smell. It’s tasty but neither one of the main flavors are identifiable. You know the flavor is there but it’s hard to tell which ones. Regardless it’s a good cup just wish the flavors were more identifiable!

…favorite Oolong.
Never disappoints. Always chears me up…
And it better does because this is somehow the national drink of the province that I am in…Guangdong. Breakfast (dim-sum), lunch and dinner…one always gets accompanied with ‘the goddess of mercy’. Astonishing here is how robust its leafs are as in busy restaurants there is not much time for waiters to correct steeping time. Leafs may sit three or eight minutes in a tea pot until it gets poured out into cups. An early poured tea one feels tempted to give feminin characteristics while the later poured tea has a more rough, still pleasant masculine note.

I was suprised by this tea. It was purchased from Amazon via the English Tea Store due to the incredible price. I wasn’t expecting much from it yet I was pleasantly suprised at it’s smokey flavour and lingering feel. Not being a tea expert I wouldn’t profess to having found all the nuances of this tea, however I on the face of it I would say this is an excellent tea that produces a lovely dark red cup.

The tea itself is a premium blend of black tea from India that brews up a colorful dark reddish hue. The taste of the tea is a touch bakey, and ends with a nice clean finish.

What powers the excitement and joy of this tea is the memorable fragrance of sweet apples, and balanced by a warm spiciness. It reminds me of Hot Tamales candies, Cinnamon Red Hot candies and Candied Apples. Smell being more potent than taste…

Although there were no brewing guidelines, I brewed a few cups at a full-boil, and steeped them for about 4-minutes. I have also found that I like the tea better with a touch of honey to bring out the sweeter details of the blend.

What I love about this tea is that every time I drink this tea, I take a sip down memory lane.

Light, sweet, and delicate.

My husband’s favorite (and that’s saying something, since he doesn’t like many teas)!

Love it! I’ve always been a fan of Earl Grey and this one is delicious.

Steeped a pot of this Ti Kuan Tin – given to me free from English Tea store – in my TECKEN tea pot, and drank it out of my MCOT, double walled, glass tea cup.

I think I may have over steeped it, as It had a rather bitter after taste.

This makes a beautiful, light iced tea. The rose is quite subtle, it’s mostly a cherry tea.

Trying to make this last bit of leaf last through multiple infusions.

For the breaking of the fast on this beautiful Saturday morning. Pity this is the last of it.

& sandalwood incense!

Tee und Schokobrötchen!

Over the several years during which time I have had this tea, it has grown on me, and I have come to like it more and more. Sometimes I drink it strong, sometimes I drink it weak; sometimes with sugar, sometimes without. It has been a good and faithful tea, and I shall certainly miss it when I run out in the next week or so. I may just have to add it to my shopping list.

Presentation machen!

Paper-writing tea for the morning.

Steeping it with just a teaspoon of sugar for the whole pot. Should reduce astringency and hopefully bring out some of the maple notes far better.