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I did everything short of gargling with this tea and could not discern the slightest hint of smokiness at all. And then I gargled with it and still got nothing. A smooth, light and slightly sweet tea that is best drunk plain and unfortunately doesn’t taste like much at all. For that smokey taste you need to hit up the Extra Russian Caravan from this company.

I had the pleasure of trying this tea recently at a high tea. To me, Dilmah usually means a slightly nicer tea supermarket bagged tea, but this was a pretty decent cup! The tea had a lovely malty flavour with that hint of biscuity-honeyness that I love in my favourite Assam estate, Namdang. Huh, a Ceylon that I don’t find revolting! Go figure.

Look, I expect my tea to really wow me. I prefer the complex tasting, the stunning leaf both wet and dry, the interesting mouthfeel, the lush round flavours, the lazer light show, the tassel twirling. This is a perfectly acceptable tea, especially to accompany a meal, but it lacks pizazz. I find it neither here nor there, so will leave it unrated.

Does what it says on the packet and is surprisingly tasty! I’m loving the soft nutty taste, it reminds me of a lighter style genmaicha. Thumbs up, etc.

I’m sure I would find this tea perfectly palatable under most circumstances, but tasting it in conjunction with Jasmine Dragon Pearls – this tea doesn’t even come close. A much flatter and slightly astringent green, with a less amazing Jasmine taste. Its like the plain, slightly dowdy rebound girl your ex dated immediately after you broke up with him, but their relationship only lasted a few months because she was nowhere near as awesome as you. And now you get frequent weeping phonecalls begging you to take him back.
Yep.

From the small rolled ‘pearls’, to how they sink to the bottom of your cup and slowly unfurl, to the light yet lush jasmine flavour – this is a beautiful tea from start to finish! Its also one of those teas that seem expensive up front, but as it stands up so well to multiple infusions I’d say it’d end up on par (or maybe cheaper) than a regular jasmine green. And much nicer too!
Brew this in a glass cup or teapot if you can, so you can watch the pearls do their thang!

Huh, I recall this being completely awful the first time I tried it and reminiscent of stewed vegetables. It must’ve been brewed wrong, because its certainly not the case this time! This Kukicha is an incredibly mild buttery-nut savoury green, that would be hard-pressed to find any haters. I don’t love it, but don’t find it personally offensive either. The George Clooney of teas really.

I am a bergamot fiend but I cannot stand floral earl greys. Somehow this ends up tasting exactly like my nemisis, Earl Grey Blue Flower, with that weird heavily perfumed bergamot flavour. If that sounds delicious to you, you will really love this tea. And green tea haters pay attention: you cannot taste the green tea in this at all, so go for it!

I fully expected this to be the worst tasting of all the flavoured green teas I tried today. The aroma of the leaves was worryingly strong, but the resulting infusion was surprisingly nice! A lovely and incredibly delicate vanilla flavour, with no green taste whatsoever. Vanilla fans or those who enjoy white teas will love this!

Green chai is a concept I absolutely cannot wrap my head around. The flavour is completely on the mark (though the cinnamon is too bitey for me), it tastes exactly like a chai should with just a hint of the sencha base creeping through. Like a serial killer creeping through your backyard in the dead of night. Which is creeping me out.