Whispering Pines Tea Company

Sipdown! Will miss this one. One of my favourite herbal tea blends.

Between being busy and getting new samples I have forgotten to leave reviews on some of my Whispering Pines teas I got this month.

There are so few herbal blends out there (all natural with nothing artificial) for the evening that are really tasty. This one fits the bill. The cinnamon is done so good in this tea it just mixes and enhances the whole taste. Definitely not over done. Along with the cinnamon I’m getting the elderberries & marshmallow root. It’s all wrapped up with a toasty warmth, wonderful for a cold winter evening. I love this blend and do not want to be without it.

Increasing my rating on this. So so so good. Vanilla is subtle but tasty and it is just warming me up. The black tea base is fantastic and I’m just really enjoying this cup. Going to try a second steep later, I think.

In other news, it’s snowing in Seattle. WHYYYYY. I have to go somewhere in a couple of hours too and I don’t want to brave the hill I live on. I already had one doctor appointment canceled due to the weather, can’t they just cancel both? They were only 20 minutes apart!

First time I’ve had both this tea and tea in general in quite a long time, been away from steepster for months. Combination of busy and moving to a desk that is smaller in a building that has no filtered water. Nasty tasting water and no place for tea does not make for a teaful day.

I’m not enjoying this tea as much as I remember doing and it might be that I need to reacclimate my tastebuds to tea again. There’s been a lot of hot chocolate in my recent past. At the same time, I can sorta see why I liked it and I hope to get back to that place soon.

Possibly due to the fact that I haven’t had any tea in 4-5 months except bad restaurant iced tea, but this tastes thinner than I was expecting.

Still good though. Because I am going to have to readjust to bitterness levels of tea, I added more sweetener than normal but otherwise enjoyed.

Definitely vanilla with chocolate and I’m enjoying the fujian notes I’m getting. Weird taste in the back of my throat after swallowing though.

Newest offering! :-)

Our Traditional Tieguanyin is a medium-roast oolong from Anxi, China. With a very satisfying mouthfeel, this tea opens with clean mineral notes followed shortly by wafting florals comparable to honeysuckle and orchid. A touch of pear is notable mid-sip, and a warm, toasty finish is also present. Traditional Tieguanyin is rounded out with hints of honey, nutmeg, and cinnamon. A very satisfying and fresh oolong that reminds me a lot of springtime! :-)

http://whisperingpinestea.com/traditional-tgy.html

Goodness, this is lovely.

I ordered this a while back after seeing all of the positive reviews. It was expensive, but well worth the price in my opinion.

The vanilla is more subtle than other vanilla teas I’ve had recently, but I quite like that. It’s creamy and kind of sweet with an amazing black tea base. Just what I needed. I’m so glad I decided to give it a try.

The only sad thing is that it’s now 11:30 p.m., so I can’t drink more without worrying that the caffeine will keep me up. I’m sure I’ll have several more cups tomorrow.

This tea is gorgeous! Smells sweet and fudgy and tastes like chocolate milk! I didn’t taste a lot of vanilla, mostly got a chocolate milk with a hint of chocolate chip banana bread? Anyways, it lives up to its hype! After reading some comments, I’ve realized that the vanilla may have drifted to the bottom. I will shake the bag up a bit and try again.

I’m trying this one cold brewed today. Initial impressions were of a smooth, malty tea with an underlying earthy or woodiness. As I sip it and slurp it a little, the fruity notes come out – I can actually taste the roasted plum and longan fruit notes that Brenden describes. This is very tasty as a cold brew, but I wouldn’t want to just gulp it as a refreshing cold beverage – even cold, it deserves to be savoured. :)

Mmmm, tasty. Smooth malt, bread, cooked fruit, and a bit of honey sweetness. Flavours linger on the palate. Very nice!

This was my first tea of the morning. I don’t think I was fully awake yet, so I didn’t pay super close attention, but I remember it being delicious. :)

My Whispering Pines order came!! First up for review is the Jabberwocky. It smells like plums and roses. It tastes like a toasted sourdough baguette covered in honey. The aftertaste is crisp and fresh. It seems to gain in sweetness as it cools. Overall, this tea is fabulous! I’m so excited to try the others!

I cut back on the leaf this time, and the tea magically lost its darkness and instead came out with a beautiful, slightly burnt caramel flavor. Absolutely unique!

This has been one of those never-ending weeks where problems arise faster than I can fix them. I haven’t been able to turn off my mind for a moment in days. I opted to go for this tea instead of a more calming one in the hope that its strength would force my mind to pay attention to it.

I’m re-brewing and bottling up this technique – perhaps it will get me through the rest of the day, as well…

This tea reminds me of coffee – not so much in the flavor, but in the thickness. Sometimes tea can be thin tasting, pleasant, but tasting more of water than of much else. This tea has serious weight and body, and could definitely serve as a morning pick-me-up in the place of strong coffee.

Some teas build up in your mouth, and you only feel like you get to know them by the end of the cup. Somehow, this tea feels like it front-ended everything. The first sip contained an incredible amount of flavor – but I forgot what it tasted like before the last sip.

So I’ve been off all week and my sleep schedule is messed up bc I’ve been staying up later and later watching Goong (Princess Hours) and playing Fantasy Life on my 3DS and basically the point is that I am drinking Second Breakfast while I wait for actual breakfast and it’s 2:45. :P

I hope I’m not working tomorrow bc it will be pretty much impossible to get to sleep around midnight. :P

This tea is really good. I was a little concerned about drinking breakfast tea on an empty stomach but it’s not THAT strong. It’s very malty, a little sweet, and a little heavy like warm bread.

This tea is totally hobbit-worthy. Thanks Sil!

Some of these well-loved teas get the most imaginative flavor descriptions in tasting notes. People taste orange, plum, blackberries – never just fruit. They taste particular loafs of bread and specific vintages of honey. I just love reading through them. My palate is not so finely tuned.
What I’m noticing most here is that this is a very “breathy” tea. After I take a sip, I can sit, breathing in and out for a few minutes, and I re-taste the tea on every breath out. The breathing is almost more pleasant than the actual drinking of the tea. Overall, the tea affects every portion of my mouth. Whether while drinking, or on the breath out, the flavor hits everything – my gums, all of my tongue, the roof of my mouth. My teeth? That is perhaps stretching the point… but my teeth do taste rather like this tea as I tongue them.

Yooyoyoyoyyoyoy this tea is fucking bananassssss

This was a cup that Sil sent over for me to try. I couldn’t tell you if it was the OLD Version or the NEW Version, so I’m just not going to bother rating it, but it’s a good cup. It reminds me a little of Laoshan Black! :O

Thank you Sil! Sipdown:155

I received this tea packet around my Birthday last month and saved it for a special occasion.

I prepared the tea in my Gaiwan.
Rinsed the leaves quickly two times.

The perfume from the wet leaves was one of those rare experiences.
Powdery, sweet, very floral…carnation and orchid with honeysuckle
but not funeral flowers…not nauseating floral overload.

This was the best floral scent in the World! Love and life smells like this! It was breathtaking! If you were walking on the outskirts of heaven barefoot, the scent that would rise up would be this scent…I’m certain.

I took a sip of tea and the aroma was so wrapped up in the flavor that they were the same. Floral, incense, sweet and smooth with a little buttery mouth-feel.

No astringency, no dryness. No acidity or vegital flavor.
NICE!

Incredible Tea! Hot, warm, cold…the same. Gorgeous.

Thank you for this tea which has made this 40th Birthday celebration of my daughter Annalisa even more memorable.

Here’s a picture I took on the way home today of some Snow Geese on the frozen part of a small lake in Central Park. THOUSANDS come through here every year!!!

My initial impressions of this tea is in the aroma. The smell of the whole leaves smells a lot like sweets, and smell very sweet. After steeping, the dry leaves and the tea liquor smelled a lot like the packages I get for my vitamin C. It smelled a lot like fruit. Exotic fruits.

First Pu-erh i have tried. Smooth to drink. Nutty flavor. Not bad considering i usually do not like black teas. A solid 85.