One of my tea goals for 2014, in addition to Not Buying Any Teas in January (check) and Trying All The Peach Teas (working on it) is to try more unflavored greens. This tea fits the bill. My aggressive lack of knowledge about various tea regions and leaf types really puts a hamper on things, …
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Thé des Alizés – Palais des Thés
On paper, this seems right up my alley. I remember smelling it in the Tel Aviv Palais des Thés last summer, too, and I liked it a lot. I know Palais get a lot of flak in terms of quality and pricing, but there’s something about their flavored teas that really does it for me. …
Green Peach Leaf Tea – Whittard of Chelsea
I’m so caffeinated now the selection process for this one went something like… oh, peach green peach green peach, huh? are there even green peaches? or is it because the tea is green? green peach what a pretty fruit all green but peach like yeah …and then imagine that really pinball-staccato and jittery. I have a …
Inachevée de Constantinople – Theodor
So a while back I received some samples from a Steepster friend, but I have neither been in possession of the time nor the faculties for note writing until now, so the samples have had to wait patiently. In very pretty air-tight containers, though, so they haven’t exactly been languishing. My benefactress had recommended 75C …
Piccolo Principe – Il Coloniale Rimini
It’s a sopping wet mess over here right now. Just rain, rain and rain. I was out for lunch with a friend and we gave up even trying to be outside when the worst downpour started. We found ourselves right beside this place that I’ve walked past for years and years but never tried (https://bit.ly/2BmFA0V) …
Grön & Skön – Kobbs
I don’t really know how to rate this – it’s the best green available at my home airport lounge, so I drink it whenever I’m traveling – more out of habit than strong preference. It gets bitter very easily, and I rarely finish my cup. I’m making this sound so much worse than it is …
Momoko – Lupicia
Steepster was right, this is almost too good cold-steeped. Hot, many of Lupicia’s teas are fun, happy, playful teas to me – but cold, just as many reach this whole new level of exquisite. This is one of those teas, and it’s a huge treat to get to try it with the last (almost, I …
La Poire – Palais des Thés
I’ve been ridiculously busy – lousy timing, since I have samples from a Steepster friend that I want to try and write elaborate tasting notes for, but, alas, no such luck. Okay, so looking back at the previous notes for this, I’ve really fiddled about with the rating. And it’s seemingly a never-ending story, because …
Tsugaru Green – Lupicia
I wasn’t going to drink this until tomorrow, but it was so appley and all-around tasty already that I couldn’t resist. Great tea for a cold steep – light, fresh, and crisp, like drinking a liquefied apple cloud. (Which, I guess, would technically be an apple rain, but nevermind.) Perfection. Cold-steeped, a few hours
Momoko – Lupicia
This one is also still very good, in spite of having been a travel tea on more than one occasion. I think there’s enough left for a cold steep of this one as well. I didn’t think I’d drink cold tea again for a while, but it’s 15 C/59 F in Rome, and very balmy; …