290 Tasting Notes
The first thing I noticed about this tea is its sweetness! It’s sooo sweet. Probably from all the mango, apple and pineapple! There is an after taste that is kind of astringent, blech.
The base is a white Chinese tea (Bai Mu Dan), but its appearance and taste is more of a green tea. There are tons of fruits in it, so it is very exotic, but the trade-off is all the sediment at the bottom.
Overall, I am #notafan of the sediment and the astringent after-taste, but it is so sweet, and exotic, even I admit that it would be good iced ;)
Brazillionaire (please hold as I add this word to Chrome’s dictionary) is one of my favorite teas! I was recently in a little quarrel with one of my friends who thought that Brazil nuts and Macadamia nuts are the same thing (what on Earth?). They are definitely not!
Anyways, I particularly love this tea because of its distinct nutty taste! Mmmmmmmm……. The raisins add a bit of sweetness and the coconut compliments the nuttiness ;)
For some, this tea may be too much to handle. Don’t get me wrong, the nut flavor is extremely strong. My dad said it was too nutty for him. Haha. I love this tea BECAUSE it is nutty (and you can eat the nuts afterwards :P). So go ahead and try it! CAN YOU HANDLE IT?!?!
In general, the almond is not very strong, perfect for relaxing after a looooong day :) It tastes a bit like marzipan! Apparently there is orange in it hmmmmm I don’t taste it at all! This tea is delicate and smooth. I would say it is almost romantic? Haha yea, and the flowers, I love finding flowers in my tea!
As I write this, I am well aware that I am using my last bit of Creme Caramel tea from my “Mary Poppins” tea bag. Yes, this was another one of those teas that goes on for a little too long.
I was surprised when I saw this picture of what the tea is supposed to look like. What are those cubes? I think I saw two of them in my 50g bag! ONLY TWO. What is this madness?
Obviously, those cubes are the “caramel” part haha. Well even with the minimal, caramel pieces in my tea, all that artificial flavoring made it caramel-y enough for me! Yes this tea is very smooth and the red rooibos tea makes all the difference. The two go well together to make this wonderful and satisfying tea!
I don’t really understand how it gets this name, it’s kind of funny! But don’t worry, this is going to be a good review :D
This tea is nothing like I have ever tasted in a tea before. At first, (without reading the ingredients) I tasted a minty fennel blend, but now I realize that it was actually the ginger I was tasting!
So yes, a minty ginger! With a hint of cardamom. It’s almost like the Super Ginger tea, with more mint! Delish! The ginger helps settle your stomach, so that’s a plus!
Buying of bag of Orange Blossom tea is like buying one of the “Mary Poppins” bags. It appears to be not that much tea, but I got at LEAST 50 cups out of my 50g.
It was just a never ending bag of tea. Usually I feel the need to be sipping the tea itself as I write these reviews, but I’ve had enough Orange Blossom to write a valid review on it.
It is very orange-y (good job David) almost too much orange. You really don’t need the full 1.5 tsp to brew a cup of it. It’s very strong tea, and it brews FAST.
The first few cups were great, but it just dragged on for too long and I got sick and tired of it. I’m kind of happy I’m almost done the bag
So If you want a quick cup of tea, and you like an ever-so-slightly-tangy-orange flavor, then this is the tea for you ;)
Enjoy!
Alright now, I have met a lot of tea newbies who have not liked this tea, but I conclude that it is solely because they do not know how to brew it properly. If you leave the tea bag/leaves in for too long, they become bitter. This is the only flaw of this tea.
Combining coconut and lemon is risky business. You need the right amount of each of the ingredients to achieve perfection. It could turn out too lemony or bitter, or not lemony enough!
This combination, however, is perfection at its finest! (I think it might have to do with the sunflowers) Drinking this tea makes me feel like I should be sitting on the beach in the hot summer sun, maybe even drinking the tea out of the coconut itself!
Hmmm….. This tea is an exceptional one for sure. The first time I tasted this tea was when it was the tea of the day. Words could not express how I hard I had to try to swallow the tea and finish what was in my sample cup. I was totally turned off by it.
Then, I ordered some teas online and this was one of my free samples. So I steeped it, with the intention of giving it to my family to drink. Then (here I go again with another one of my famous impulses) I decided to take a sip, and believe me, I drank the rest of the pot! I don’t know what happened that first day, but my opinion of pineapple oolong had just done a 360 and I had fallen in love.
The moral of this story is to act on your impulses.
JUST KIDDING
The moral is to always give teas a second chance, when it’s free ;)
As for the tea it self, it is super super sweet from all the pineapple it pretty much superposes the oolong taste. So you could call it pineapple tea, because that is all you will taste (which is not a bad thing!).
