The Persimmon Tree Tea Company

This is alright, I enjoyed it but I don’t think I would buy more.

I’m drinking it iced, and there’s just a slightly off taste to it, which comes off to me as apple. It could be the peach, I don’t know, maybe it’s a combination of the two and the floral aspect? Because I don’t get much floral notes and there’s definitely some petals in here.

It’s an interesting base for a flavored tea, I wish more people used Assam for flavored black bases because it just makes it a bit more interesting.

Unlike other notes on here, I do get cinnamon. That’s why I made this iced, I did not expect to taste any given it seemed it was hard to find, but it is indeed present. And actually it’s not bad at all. It definitely comes across as a baked dessert, although yes, the baked good notes could be stronger. I suppose the assam helps with this too.

The other positive is that the apple does taste like apple rather than just providing a sweet, tart fruit flavor. The peach is actually what I feel like it’s lacking.

I do love how The Persimmon Tree uses hibiscus. You can’t really taste it, but it does taste like it’s boosting other flavors.

Jeez all I was doing was finding this on Steepster to open it up for my note and my boyfriend’s like, buying more tea? NOOOOO.

Though of course if this is any good, I will buy more than a sample in the future.

I can’t say I’m a big fan of this. It’s very subtle. And I mean that everything about it is subtle, the rooibos is not strong either. It smelled like it was going to be that way when it started steeping, so I’m glad that isn’t how it tastes!

A bit of milk and sugar definitely helps bring out some flavor. Before I was just getting vanilla and a bit of creaminess, and now the creaminess comes off more like white chocolate, and I can taste the berry. I really like the white chocolate, I think the vanilla also helps to get the flavor of it across in here.

Will I get it again? Possibly. But I have too many other teas to want to get this one right now. Really. I have plenty of other chocolate teas to get through first, but this is a nice treat. And like I said before, it’s really nice that the rooibos is kept in check, it’s a very nice balance of flavors once you can get them to taste a bit stronger.

This came my way via a survey I took for The Persimmon Tree Tea Co. as a thank you gift. (Love their smallest tins – too cute!) To take a saying that my husband likes to use: If it’s free, its for me!

This rounds out the 3 teas I tried cold brewing. To be fair, I have yet to try this as a hot brew so I’m not sure if it will taste different when made the traditional way.

First off, I followed the usual 1.5 tsp of leaf per 8 oz cup and brewed this for over 24 hours – longer than I meant to keep the leaves in.

This has a much more pronounced green tea flavor than I was expecting! It’s mostly green tea with a hint of tart pomegranate. The other cold brews I had (neither of which were from The Persimmon Tree) were more fruit-forward with a hint of tea base flavor.

Finding this out now does make me a tad nervous to try the hot brew on this one, but it doesn’t deter me from doing it either. I’ll try that at a later time.

Going to refrain from giving a rating on this, because the tea wasn’t bad at all, it just wasn’t at all what I expected. Peach Apple Crisp just sounds like it would be more of an almost fall/holiday flavor type tea. The Persimmon Tree website claims that it has “gala apple and cinnamon with a crisp floral finish” flavor note, but I could not taste one fleck of cinnamon or much apple either. If anything the rose makes this taste more along the lines of a slightly fruity flavored rose black tea mix.

I’m leaving out a rating because since drinking this I have decided that I just do not like pu-erh teas at all, so I have a pretty biased opinion. I love coconut in a tea blend and based on the ingredients I had hoped to get a new favorite. Unfortunately upon even opening the sample package I thought the tea smelled, well, gross. I wanted to try it anyway, and brewed it up as instructed, but after a sip I couldn’t bring myself to finish the mug. Definitely not at all “my cup of tea.”

I’m slowly trying to get into green teas, starting with flavored ones more. This one was cold brewed. I enjoyed the taste of the tea, but the pomegranate was more of a general tart fruit flavor. It wouldn’t make me think pomegranate if not for the name. I’ll see how the flavor is hot sometime.

I had this iced earlier. I finally went through nearly all my tea, there’s still a ton with no place. But I went to Lowes tonight and loaded up on organizing stuff (but mainly for my lip balm stuff) so maybe that’ll be better!

I’ve also started plans for my patio garden this year. I’m starting pretty much everything from seeds, except strawberries (unless I can find a container blueberry plant around here, all the ones online can’t be shipped to Georgia). So far I have arugula, mixed greens, spearmint, rosemary, basil, jalapenos, dwarf snapdragons, a variety of poppies called California twisted (they look so neat – http://www.burpee.com/images/product/prod000344/prod000344_lg.jpg), and dill. Then I am thinking baby carrots for containers!, beets, eggplant or tomatoes, cucumbers, and lavender.

I saw that to make the most of space, plant lettuces around the perimeter of a pot and then plant something else in the middle later! So is what I am going to try.

Anyway, I haven’t had this tea in awhile. I completely mixed up what I was doing but managed to save this tea. I really should try it hot one day, but I really think this is only the second time I’ve had this one.

It wasn’t as flavorful as last time but that’s because I completely forgot I only should have put 4 oz of water in the jar. Instead I filled it, so I doubled the tea but I probably should have made it 2.5×. Oh well. Still tasted like guava overall.

First, a rant. Why are people so full of failure today? We were going to Chipotle for dinner and some stupid teenager nearly hits us and tries to like, turn ahead of us because he completely missed the lane. And then he of course just gave the “I’m an idiot” wave when we really wanted to tell him to learn to drive. And then in Chipotle, they seemed completely inept at everything. The manager we loved is now a hibachi chef so they’ve gone completely downhill.

And then, I just went on Facebook to see my brother post a picture of his girlfriend wearing one of my scarves holding my cat kite. If you’re going to be tacky and touch my things, DON’T POST IT ON FACEBOOK. I called my mom to let her know to tell them to leave my stuff alone and she of course is all like do you want me to tell him to take it off Facebook? Like my problem is that it’s on the internet rather than you know, TOUCHING MY STUFF. Who. Does. That. Just because I don’t live there anymore doesn’t make those things not my belongings.

Tea is NEEDED. Since my order from The Persimmon Tree finally came (expected delivery dates from the post office are apparently also untrustworthy, like your own brother) I wanted to try them out immediately and this seemed like a good start. I ordered a whole tin rather than just a sample.

Since I’m too angry for hot tea, iced tea it is. This smells so good while it’s brewing. Definitely smells like guava with a nice side of strawberry.

The strawberry doesn’t come out so much as you drink it, but it seems to be there for a good bit of sweetness. I love the guava though, I haven’t had anything guava in a long time so this is really good. And I love the depth the ginger adds to it. It gives it a little kick too.

This one is definitely a winner. Glad I didn’t just get a sample because I’d already be ordering the tin by now! And it’s improving my mood, though also being able to get my rant out somewhere that feels like someone made read it and care (read: not Twitter right now because it’s opening ceremonies tweets round 2 and my “problems” are not 40 foot Voldemort or whatever and therefore to be scrolled past).

Thank you to QueenOfTarts for passing along a nice-sized sample of this! This is my first experience with The Persimmon Tree.

Upon opening the package, the leaf mixture smells sweet and caramely. I used 2 teaspoons of tea for 8 oz at the below parameters. The yellowish-brown liquor smells a tiny bit roasty and sweet. First few sips are toasty upfront, but end with the sweetness of caramel. Very interesting blend. I don’t really feel the need to put sweetener in this as it might overwhelm the toastiness of the tea, but I will for experience’s sake.

Post sweetener, the roastedness is much more muted, but the caramel really pops. Both ways are enjoyable! This is going on the shopping list!

Thanks again QueenOfTarts!

I’m surprised to be the first to rate this! I’m feeling the pressure!

Well, the only other puerh I really have experience with is DAVIDSteas’ Chocolate Orange. It’s pretty strongly flavored where you don’t taste the puerh-ness as much. Well, this is obviously different. As soon as I opened the sample bag, I got a strong whiff of a familiar scent. This Honeysuckle Puerh smells like crawfish. While crawfish are delicious, I DO NOT want a tea that tastes like them. So I decided to try rinsing the leaves. I ran hot water through them for probably about ten seconds. Hopefully that was enough to bring out the honeysuckle and the non-fishy side of puerh (whatever that tastes like?)

Hmm. So I’m getting some of the crawfish flavor and some earthy flavors with some notes of nut. But what I’m definitely not getting is honeysuckle. I’m not experienced enough to know if I rinsed it too much (could I have rinsed the flavor out?), not enough, or if I need to add sweetner. I’ll need to experiment with this.

I had a sampling of this last night – by the way The Persimmon Tree has generous samples!
Anyway – it was really good – the aroma was amazing – the flavor just slightly watery for me so I added a slight bit of sugar in the raw and a decent splash of milk and I feel this brought the tea to life!
It was not bad at all before doing so but I liked it better with.

Nice light guava and strawberry flavor. I don’t get the ginger which is good because I tend to stay away from strong, peppery or zingy flavors in my white teas. Can see myself easily using up this 1oz tin. I’ll have no problem sipping this one hot but I’ll definitely try it iced.

A very pretty tea. It smells lightly of pineapple and that translates to the taste. Very pleasant; but it doesn’t knock my socks off as pineapple. Perhaps I’ll try brewing it stronger.

Sample sipdown!

Got this in a 5 pack with other flavored white teas a while back. All of them were pretty good, but this was one of my favorites from the set. I would re-stock but the Golden Moon coconut oolong fills the coconut flavored tea space in my cupboard. It is a lighter bodied oolong and similar enough to the white that I don’t feel I need both. This is very good though, and if you like coconut a lot you should probably try it! :)

YAY! My Persimmon Tree samples came in the mail yesterday! I went with the white sampler, but after seeing how nice it is I think I’ll end up ordering the green sampler as well. Anyway, this is the CREAMIEST coconut tea I’ve ever had! It makes me think of a coconut pudding. Delicate white tea flavor, too. Mmmm…quite nice :)

Thanks Emilie for the swap! I love white tea and I love coconut, so sure enough, this tea is fantastic :D going on my shopping list…

Sipdown 2020! 10/365

Some nice vanilla in here, but I really need to filter out tea dust before brewing the last cup of things – way too astringent because of it.

Just a big ’ol meh for this one. More vanilla, please.

Stumbled across an envelope filled with samples from the Persimmon Tree; I vaguely recall these existing, now that I see them, and I think I selected them myself, possibly ordering them as part of some sort of promotion? Going to try and check back through my older tasting notes to see if I commented about their origin (though I’d only tried maybe two of them).
Anyhow, this tea oddly contains sliced almonds, as well as some other small/light-coloured thing (looks kind of like coconut but I’m not sure that’s what it is), neither of which are listed as ingredients on the package. Doesn’t bother me, but could be a concern to people for whom those inclusions are problematic. The flavour is okay, neither the nuts or potential coconut have any noticeable flavour, and the vanilla isn’t overly strong. I don’t recall my original thoughts on this, but I suspect it wasn’t amazing even when it was fresh, though I’ve certainly had worse vanilla teas. The base was also middle-of-the-road: nothing special, but fairly solid. Better, IMO, than some of the harsh black bases used by other companies for flavoured teas.

I picked up a sample of this one from Persimmon Tree a while back, and was looking for something different to take to work this morning, and there was enough in my sample to allow a full thermos of this plus an additional cup (or more) under more ideal brewing conditions!

There’s essentially no aroma to my cup of tea… and the flavour is absurdly light! Believe it or not, I could hardly tell this and 52teas’ Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal apart. Both just tasted like generic, sweetish but mostly flavourless black teas. As this one cooled, though I could catch the french vanilla notes a bit more. However… way, way too weak. I guess I’ll have to try this one again!