The Tea Ingredient

TeaTiff TTB O_o Three Minutes? Most sencha do 30 seconds to 1 minute at tops. Maybe if this was a genmaicha. The picture of the sencha from the website is quite a bit greener than this sample. This one is just a bit more olive in color. The problem with sencha is it’s not really a tea to pass around in a TTB. It degrades in flavor so quickly. I won’t rate this one because I don’t think it is in it’s top form. I can sense some grassy flavors and even an interesting tropical note but it just doesn’t quite taste like a good sencha should be. The color of the infused leaf also suggests to me that this is a summer-harvested leaf

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This is a nice mint blend. I like the combination of peppermint and spearmint, and there’s a little hint of vanilla or cream or something in that realm. Even chocolate, maybe? Whatever it is, it adds a nice smooth quality to the blend. I don’t taste the black tea much, so I feel like it’s unnecessary.

This is giving me a touch of the holiday feels! :)