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Fantastic as always! Hina’s is the best! Going to enjoy this while I still can, while they are still open!

Very mild tasting, with a flowery scent that I can’t identify. I’m not a fan of white tea, but this one is good. Not really “plum” tasting, although I can’t think of what hot liquid plum would taste like. Ume, Japanese plum paste, has a really strong taste. Salted preserved plums have a really strong taste too. Fresh plums are my favorite fruit, but this tea doesn’t taste like fresh plums either.
It’s still good, mild, and almost relaxing.

This is from that octagonal (?) sampler pack I got myself at Christmas time. I don’t like raspberry anything. Unless it’s golden raspberries, but that’s a whole different beast. Anyway, this tea tastes like someone melted a raspberry candy into weak green tea. I can’t even taste the green tea part, it doesn’t even smell like green tea. I don’t know what the color is because I threw the bag into a black cup. I know, blasphemy. So, it’s not good. I am already steeping with bias.
BUT I put a dropper full of my Dr. Brandt’s Antioxidant dietary supplement in pomegranate flavor and it then tasted like a good pomegranate tea! So then I like it! :-)

I can definitely taste the chamomile. The honey isn’t strong, which is good because I’m not a fan of honey. I can also taste the meyer lemon, but again, it’s not too overpowering and doesn’t shout, “LEMON!” It’s not bad overall, a lot milder than I was expecting. I know Meyer lemons are sweeter than regular lemons, but I think I was still hoping for more of a lemony taste. And I was intrigued by the dried honey.

Actually what I had was a Sweet Tea Latte at Hina’s. Wild Strawberry black tea, a little vanilla smoothie mix, foamy milk, and viola! The best drink ever! The thick creamy foam smelled and tasted like marshmallow, and the tea latte was sweet, but not too sweet. It tastes nothing like a Southern sweet tea, it’s warm and creamy like hot chocolate, but better! I barely tasted strawberry, only a hint of it after he mentioned it, just in the aftertaste slightly, but not overwhelmingly fruity at all. So so good and perfect to finish off a weekend at work when it was starting to rain.

I got this from a co-worker the other day, she was in Chinatown in San Francisco and bought a bunch of tea and wanted to share with me.

Spirits? What does that mean? Well, apparently it means mint and chamomile. It smells strongly of mint, dry and infused. The color is an interesting green-brown, reminded me of that brown Zune. Kind of different. And it turned really dark as soon as the water passed through the bag! The taste though is chamomile, not a whole lot of mint. The second infusion was a little lighter, as to be expected, and as it cooled, the mint came out a little more. It’s an interesting mix of chamomile and mint, maybe not to my liking.

Somehow, I just don’t think ghosts taste like this.

Can you tell I’m ready for spring? :-)

Jasmine green, light floral scent, light and lovely on the eyes. I think this one is especially pretty.

When the day is gloomy, I need a bloomy. :-)

I have a ton of this because my older brother is generous and was thanking me for using my phone upgrade to get his new iPhone. I do smile at the thought of him going into Teavana and tasting stuff to pick one out for me!

What I didn’t tell him was that I don’t really care for peach or white tea! It’s not bad tea though, and the bloom is pretty. Light taste, but smells very peachy, not real peachy, candy peachy. I’m drinking it for the looks. I might try this iced in the summer. I’m trying to keep an open mind on the white teas.

It’s a rainy day here but this London Fog is making my day brighter. I need a light tea after yesterday’s caffeine overload, so this is perfect. I’m also home from work, so I can enjoy the bloom while I am doing laundry and catching up on stuff. It’s beautiful, lightly scented, and tasty. I am biased though, there are very few jasmine greens that can do wrong in my book.