Upton Tea Imports

Tastes of honey and pineapple and a bit of earthines. Really enjoyed it

This is quite nice – White Peony with a kick.
Smokey, with a hint of spices but still on the mellow side.
Holds two infusions easily.

Unbelievable.
I just did the 5th infusion of this tea (I usually don’t go beyond 4 even with oolongs) and it’s only starting to loose the flavor. I was not very generous on the leaf either, I like my teas light.

I can’t get enough of this tea… and used leaf smells so good I feel sorry to throw it away.

I just received my order of white tea samples from Upton. This is the first tea I fished out of the box.
The description says it was grown in Assam region so I was very curious to try it because I really enjoy white Darjeelings and like the idea of white tea having characteristics of black tea.
The aroma coming from the bag is intoxicating, it smells like black tea with a touch of honey. The dry leaf is similar to Silver Needle but a bit darker in color and is bald, doesn’t have any hairs at all.
I brewed this in a Gaiwan. The brew is darker as well and tastes exactly like it smells – black tea, notes of honey and almost no Silver Needle sweetness.
I’m on the 4th steeping right now and it’s still flavorful. Amazing.
I’ll be adding this tea to my regular white tea rotation, no doubt here.

Quite excellent with just a little sugar. Nice tannins, and good, robust darjeeling flavor. Be careful of oversteeping, though, as the muscatel flavor can become overpoweringly grapey.

Bold and robust. Perfect on a cold evening or cloudy day.

Finishing up my sample. Totally forgettable. I can’t even say I’m drinking white tea, it tastes not only like green but like cheap green.
The second infusion is even worse, it lost all the lightness and fruitiness this tea had initially.

White tea that looks and feels like a light version of green tea.
Fruity aroma and vegetal taste.

The tea is a brilliant chartreuse with little pieces of bright green popped rice and roasted rice kernels. It brews up into a pale cloudy green brew that smells delightfully roasty and has a light rounded roasted, slightly salty taste. There are other notes that have a very light sweetness to them as well.

Sharp and strong, which is good for the morning but bad for me at other times. There is a cocoa note that appears midway through the quaff and it is of the bitter cocoa variety. If I drank my tea with sugar or honey, this is a tea I would use it with.

The tea leaves are quite pretty with their hand-made spirals, but one cannot buy a tea just for beauty. Well, ok, I sometimes do. But in this case, I probably won’t.

I got a sample from the new batch and it is much better than the previous I tried some time ago. It is sweet, light and has a distinct mushroom scent and flavor that I’m looking for in silver needle. As it stands now this tea is going to be my everyday choice for silver needle.

Tastes like generic Silver Needle if such thing exists. Not bad but nothing special either, kinda dull. Holds up to 3 infusions.

I keep coming back to this herbal tea. It’s a regular, and I drink it in quantity. Very reasonably priced.

This is one of my favorite herbal teas. It’s a little like lemongrass without lemon; grassy but unlike a grassy green teas. Fresh, clean, light, and crisp. I prefer this to red rooibos very strongly; it lacks a certain objectionable quality in the aroma of the red tea.

Lightly earthy with a trce of smoke, an excellent tea

Superior says it all!

Absolutely the best first flush I have ever had, perhaps the best Darjeeling I’ve ever had. Can’t say enough good about it

Excellent, excellent

High quality Ceylon base, but the Earl appears to not be at home

I just got some more in a tea swap. Oooh it is sooooooooooo good.

A sweet, strong, floral EG, excellent

Very clear sharp taste of Bergamot, liked it a lot, liked it more with Upton’s Devonshire E G