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drank Supreme Silver Needle by teapro
87 tasting notes

The first tea in my teapro subscription box. Yep, I’ve decided to do a tea subscription to see what it’s like. When it comes to “real” tea with beautiful complex flavours and many many steeps revealing new layers… I’m kind of lacking in knowledge. I read the awesome detailed reviews here on Steepster (particularly those from Derk and eastkyteaguy) and I feel inspired to kick the supermarket/grocery store tea habit and explore more. But I’m on a budget and I need a little help with detecting flavours sometimes.

So, this “exploring tea” subscription seemed perfect. A chance to get the basics down at least. With a fairly empty cupboard (apart from the box of tea bags) it’s not like I’m going to run out of space.

Anyway, the actual tea. It’s excellent although I don’t have anything to compare it to at this point. The buds are so fluffy! They smell pretty good too, very fresh and fragrant.

I steeped 1 generous teaspoon for 3 minutes, managing to get 3 steeps out of it in total. The aroma is very fresh melon – but not quite ripe melon. It’s not sweet enough to be ripe but it’s very strong in aroma.

Flavour-wise, melon again. But it’s gentle and a little bit creamy. Slightly floral too – honeysuckle perhaps. In my last steep which lasted 9+ minutes, I had this hit of white chocolate. The description card that came with this tea (very helpful with determining flavours) has it down as “floral, melon, honey, cucumber” so I got 3 out of the 4.

I had the first cup at about 7pm and the last around 10pm. I slept very very well, this tea made me feel very peaceful.

I’m going to try the other 3 teas and then write up a combined blog review for the subscription box. In the meantime, I’m definitely looking out for more silver needle teas to try.

Flavors: Creamy, Floral, Honeysuckle, Melon, Sweet, White Chocolate

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 10 OZ / 300 ML
Bluegreen

I will be looking foward to your review of the Teapro subscription: I do not know much about them. They for sure have a colorful web site!

Izzy

Thanks Bluegreen!

derk

Is the Teapro subscription your introduction to loose leaf tea? It’ll be fun :)

Izzy

It’s more of an introduction to really tasting the loose leaf tea, instead of relying on added flavours and fruits and bits :)

Kittenna

Sounds delicious! I’ll be interested to watch for your reviews of the teas you get :)

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Bluegreen

I will be looking foward to your review of the Teapro subscription: I do not know much about them. They for sure have a colorful web site!

Izzy

Thanks Bluegreen!

derk

Is the Teapro subscription your introduction to loose leaf tea? It’ll be fun :)

Izzy

It’s more of an introduction to really tasting the loose leaf tea, instead of relying on added flavours and fruits and bits :)

Kittenna

Sounds delicious! I’ll be interested to watch for your reviews of the teas you get :)

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A British tea lover with the crazy idea that she can review every possible tea. Ever. Check out my blog to see my progress so far…

My all-time favourite tea brands that I go back to for a cup of comfort:
Clipper
Whittard of Chelsea
English Tea Shop

I rate teas on a spreadsheet, giving marks out of 10 for:
Condition of the tea leaves/ingredients,
Quality of ingredients (e.g. artificial flavours or freshly dried fruit?),
Dry aroma,
Wet aroma,
Flavour,
Texture,
Sensation (how does it make me feel?),
and Colour.
Then, with a little head scratching, I do the math and work out the score out of 100.

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