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Dry Leaf: Pepper, bay leaf, tomato.
Wet Leaf: Melon, spice cabinet (mixed spices such as Italian seasoning).

Notes: The tea start with a slight bitter and astringency in the cup. Eventually, the tea was opening a bit more, allowing the tea to offer a subtle sweetness to the session, and forming a perfume floral note in the aftertaste. Toward the 5th infusion, the bitterness returned to the cup and remained until steep # 7, where the session had concluded. Unfortunately, not the best white tea.

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This was the cleanest of the matcha teas I’ve tried thus far. I wish I wrote more…lol

This isn’t the best of teas, but it’s familiar. While I’ve not actively sipped this tea in nearly 20+ years, I’d get a cup of this during the winters and/or while sick, in my youth. It was the closest thing to tea I’d be allowed to drink.

Something within me desired this tea while perusing the tea/coffee aisle at Walmart. I grabbed a box, went home and made a mug, and now I’m working on a third box…I’ve made it my nightly habit to drink this at the last hour of my shift. Let’s say it’s a cozy mug, which transports me back in time and space, to little ol’ me, drinking a boiling hot cup of Cinnamon Apple Spice, happy to be warm again after spending too much time outside on those cold winter (snow) days.

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This blend is similar to sticking your face in a bag of Sour Patch Kids and inhaling deeply. However, the taste is Sweet Tart-esq, fruity, mango sweetness (at the front of the overall flavor), tart hibiscus, and a nice sweet and sour pineapple finish.

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The taste between the hot and iced is that the hot brings the white tea base out much more, while the iced version elevates the strawberry notes; however, I noted ‘heavy floral’ in the iced and hot cup. Overall, very little fruity flavors.

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Oddly medicinal, as if I drank cough syrup…with a artificial honey flavor.

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This is a really nice mug for the start of the day. The balance of the black teas mix flavors of malt and cocoa. There’s a touch of pepper in the aftertaste.

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Topped off as an iced tea. Added a splash of foamed oat milk. I noted, “Iced chocolate milk with a pecan finish.”

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I’m going to get through as many reviews before bed. I’ve been running on little energy for the past two days while fighting symptoms from the flu shot. I’ve so many teas to catch up on. Lol.

Notes: The tea offers more of a cooling sensation with the peppermint, and the lemongrass is a nice touch adding extra sweetness. It is perfect as an iced tea; much better than hot!

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Sheng/shou blend which lands flat and surprisingly bitter with a sheng bite. I’d’ve imagined this to be more balanced, but the sheng takes charge, and it’s not very good. I think the idea of blending sheng and shou is interesting, on account, Yunnan Sourcing succeeded with their 2015 Green Miracle; however, I’ve not had anything like that since then.