659 Tasting Notes
This is nice, but just doesn’t quite come up to some of the other AliShan I’ve tried. They’re usually very smooth — TeaAve’s, I remember was particularly silky. The floral and vegetal notes are here, but to me the balance feels off. It’s just a bit more orchidy than I would like. I’m still experimenting with water temperatures, but so far, the floral notes always come out dominating.
It’s not bad at all, just not a favorite.
Preparation
So I wouldn’t say this tastes good, but it doesn’t taste bad. For a medicinal / health tea, it’s not hard to get down, and supposedly it’s great as an overall immune system boost. I just wouldn’t drink it recreationally.
Since I’m not sick at the moment, though, and just drank it to try the flavor, I can’t really tell whether it’s health benefits are as amazing as claimed.
Had this at a friend’s house. I think I will always want my vanilla teas to be more vanilla, and this was no exception, but the vanilla was present and the base was pretty decent. I’ve been pretty leery of Mountain Rose’s bases after I got a green tea from them that was so powerfully astringent it made my stomach hurt. But this base was not astringent at all, so that was a nice discovery.
This is nice, but I’m surprised the other reviewers found it so lemony (though looking at all the lemony ingredients that are listed, it certainly should be). All I can think of is that lemon balm often varies in how lemony or minty it tastes, and this must be a particularly minty batch. Because mint is the strongest note here. I taste lemon, but it’s just back-up to the mint.
I’m only disappointed because I was looking forward to a super-strong lemon tea. In and of itself, the flavors are good.
Preparation
I decided to try steeping up some goji berries, because I really love David’s Goji Pop, but I find it pretty pricey considering how much tea you need to brew a cup.
The results are nothing like Goji Pop.
Where Goji Pop is sweet-tart and fruity, this is buttery, nutty, and sweet in a baked-goods kind of way.
And despite the berries being intensely red, the brew doesn’t come anywhere close to Goji Pop’s hot pink. It is a pale brown.
So I guess Goji Pop’s flavor and color mainly come for the other ingredients: apple, hibiscus blossoms, rosehips, honeydew melon.
While the goji berries taste nothing like what I was expecting, this is still really good, and it actually reminds me of one of David’s other herbals: Forever Nuts. I love butter and nuts, so I won’t have any trouble getting this down.
Preparation
Yeah, I feel like Goji Pop hardly tastes like goji berry but it’s so damn delicious anyway.
Yeah, in hindsight it seems the apple and honeydew give it most of its flavor, but before I tried these goji berries, I couldn’t figure that out, probably because I hardly ever eat honeydew.
Got a cup of this at a B&N Starbucks yesterday. I’d never ordered any tins of it, because the description sounded so much like H&S Bangkok, I didn’t see the point. But actually, the two flavors taste quite different.
It turns out there is a lot of vanilla in this tea. It overwhelms the coconut and ginger flavors to the point that I’m not sure they are there at all, whereas in Bangkok, ginger is the strongest note.
Of course it’s always a little dicey judging tea by the way it’s served at Starbucks, because the steeping instructions go out the window, but my impression is that this is pleasant, but I didn’t love it. So much vanilla seems a little odd with green tea. It went down nicely with my pumpkin muffin, but in the long run, I much prefer a vanilla black.
Delicious bready malty tea. Doesn’t taste quite as raisiny as Mountain Tea’s Black Pearl, but they still seem much in the same vein. I also appreciate that this tea is tightly rolled, it makes it so much easier to measure.
I didn’t follow the directions at all, as I can never taste anything after a 30 second steep. Did 3 minutes and it turned out lovely.
Preparation
Yum!
I am so glad you’re enjoying the teas I sent. I always feel guilty of I’m not drinking a tea that is good quality because it’s just not a favorite.
Me too! Once I knew everything that goes into making high-quality tea, I felt super guilty about wasting anything, but alas, quality is no guarantee that the tea will be appealing, everyone’s tastes are so different. Everything in the box has been fabulous though, and I was super excited to see how much oolong there was, because I have a big weakness for oolong :) Thank you so much!
