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This tea was good, but not as good as the smell would indicate. A mellow white tea, tastes of flowers at first then settles into tangy fruit and and aftertaste of apricot. Refreshing and not overly tannic. Felt like i was on the edge of oversteeping by following the directions of 3 minutes.
Flavors: Apricot, Floral, Fruity, Tangy, Tannic
Preparation
I really do love this tea. Smells of bourbon vanilla, maybe a touch of cinnamon or warm spice that smells familiar. Maybe slight caramel? Like others have said, it smells better than it tastes, but taste is not bad at 90C for 3 min. Vanilla is not as present as the almost subtle chai flavor in taste.
I think it burns easily. It is a green tea/black tea blend, and the green is not robust and it tastes like a mellow black tea. Tannins are present just not super strong.
Flavors: Caramel, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Spices, Vanilla, Whiskey
Preparation
I liked this tea more than I thought I would since I don’t usually drink flavored black teas. I received this as a gift and found that it makes a pleasant cup. The black tea is quite smooth with just a hint of dryness. It isn’t very brisk. The berry notes in the tea are delicate but held up well with a spot of milk.
The strength of this tea is the balance between the black tea base and the berry flavor. They complement each other well, with neither being overpowering. In a way, this is a straightforward tea. What you see is what you get — there is no “complexity” to it, no varying flavors or aromas with each steep. But what it does, it does well. The bottomline is: it’s a good berry-flavored black tea that makes a lovely cuppa.
Preparation
red rooibos with coconut flakes and cocoa bits. Smells strongly of coconut and red rooibos, but on first taste the rooibos dominates. Nice red/brown colour, unfiltered somewhat dusty and not clear. A nice early evening sipping tea.
Flavors: Almond, Barnyard, Bread, Burnt Sugar, Grass, Honey, Rooibos, Toasted
Preparation
1 sachet for 250mL water @90C, steeped four minutes.
Liquor: lightest gold.
Aroma: classic floran ti kuan yin notes with some appealing sharpness
Taste: the ti kuan yin of my dreams.
A dear friend brought me this from her recent trip to England. 1837 TWG Tea is new to me. The tea sahcets are cotton (!) and large enough to give the gorgeous leaves room to expand.
My entire office smells like orchids.
This is an excellent ti kuan yin. I look forward to re-steeping it.
My morning tea today while watching the rain from my bedroom window – I know at some point I need to leave the house today to run some errands, but in the meantime it feels nice to get to watch the rain from the comfort of my bedroom, all bundled up with a mug of tea. This is definitely delicious – and a good rainy day tea! Like drinking sweet, fragrant Rosewater Turkish Delight in liquid form!
Received this tea from someone at work who knows how much I love rose in tea (if that wasn’t apparent from the MANY rose flavoured teas I had this week…) and I’m really appreciative of their generosity and thoughtfulness to share a tea with me that they knew I’d like. They were of course correct, this has an amazing rose flavour! Sweet, delicate and fresh – a bit more perfumey that some of the rose I experienced this week, but not in a bad way!
I actually made three mugs of this tea day I tried it out; I have a new roommate (one of the other two moved out last week) and for her first weekend in the apartment we all kind of sat down and got to know each other over a mug of tea – and that cleaned the apartment together as a group. It was actually a really nice activity and she seems really nice! I’m excited to have a new roommate who is maybe more sociable than the last, who also seems to have an appreciation for a cup of tea!
Sociable roommates are great (as long as they understand boundaries)! I lived with some fantastic people in my time renting in Ontario.
This’ one I’ve been coveting for a while, since the Urban Tea Merchant switched over to a ‘TWG Branded’ store. It came with a new lineup of employees, not the regulars I knew, and at first they didn’t have all of the teas in… Later I realized the main manager there just wasn’t fond of serving anyone who didn’t look ‘ritzy’ enough to make a reservation. Bluh. I tried a few times, but he couldn’t be bothered to check (I could physically see the tin labelled ‘Honey’). This time around I was the only one in the story, so got his attention long enough to grab this one (had an odd back-and-forth ‘Honey tea? No.’ ‘Oh, you’re sure?’ ‘Oh, honey tea, yes.’), but wasn’t able to inquire after anything else before being ushered to the till. Welp.
Anyhow—rant over, this smells STRONG, floral, like sweet pollen. The taste is more… waxy. Sweet, but not ‘sweetened’. I assume what honey MIGHT taste like if you stripped away the ‘sweet’. Sort of like… biting into a beeswax candle, almost. Waxy and floral. It’s different, and lives up to the weird hype I was building in my head in anticipation of trying it.
Not the weirdest tea I’ve tried from TWG… Honestly don’t know why more tea companies don’t carry a honey tea? I assume it must be a difficult flavour to source, and get right (I wonder how much like ‘honey’ this would taste with a sweetener added; an experiment to try, although I’m at that point where I straight up dislike sugar in my tea).
Edit: Forgot to add, very reminiscent of DavidsTea’s Wild Honey Matcha. Same flavouring? Feeling like I should buy some and try them together.
Flavors: Floral
Preparation
Good tea. Half way (balanced) between strong English Breakfast and Earl Grey. Not as tanic as the English Breakfast, not as aromatic and citrusy as the Earl Grey.
Indeed for breakfast; I don’t like it with milk. It doesn’t need it. Very appropiate to drink in the russian way, very strong and adding hot water along the way. My wife likes it very, very strong and loaded with sugar.
Many TWG’s teas are gimicky, but this one isn’t. It is indeed a breakfast tea with a recognisable Russian flair.
Flavors: Bergamot, Dark Wood
Preparation
It is difficult to find the mango advertised. Instead, it smells and tastes like peaches.
Very similar candy-like tea as other offers from TWG (Wedding party, Tea Party, etc). This one is more direct to the fruit (peach/apple) and less balanced. I didn’t like its light body but that makes it good for some contexts. It is an enjoyable infusion to share in a light and playuful mood.
Flavors: Almond, Green Apple, Mud, Peach
Preparation
Sipdown! 9/365
Dang. Waited too long on this for sure. It’s noticeably stale, or at least, I think that’s the flavour I’m getting out of it. I can also taste the metallic tang of a too-old green tea base. I think I can get a whiff of pineapple if I sniff the tea really hard, but the staleness overwhelms anything in the flavour. Too bad, this is probably one of the only cups of tea I’ll actually dump out. I even drank yesterday’s Sencha because it had some redeeming qualities… this has none. Oh well. At least there was only a cup’s worth.
ETA: I see from other reviews that there is ginseng in here. I’m not overly familiar with ginseng in tea, but it’s possible that it’s contributing to the flavour I dislike here.
I don’t like the taste of ginseng, myself. Was the taste you found unappealing sort of musty/earthy/medicinal-tasting? That is what ginseng tstes like to me.
It was musty, possibly earthy. I’ve had ginseng oolongs before and only recall them being sweet and pleasant. This was downright bad. I can honestly say that other than some teas where the coconut has gone off, this was probably the worst-tasting tea I’ve had!
Ya, I have a ginseng oolong, but usually they are powdered in licorice, so they taste… sweet and pleasant. Not musty and downright bad. The ginseng oolongs that look like the little pebbles are the only ginseng teas I can drink, but then, I am a huge licorice root lover. :-P The sweetness and the oolong base tempers out the ginseng grossness in those.
I bet that’s it then. I dislike ginseng! I actually did not know that it was powdered licorice on the ginseng teas I’d had before (I’ve only had the tiny, powdery, pebbled version, and only a couple times, I think). For science, though, I think I’ll need to try another ginseng tea… :/
I was on a Singapore Airlines flight the first time I had this tea. I immediately fell in love with it. I love strong teas and I thought the aroma captured very well the Paris-Singapore romance. I can’t describe it any other way. I have tried other TWG blends, but my favourite by a far is the Paris-Singapore blend.