This is the feed of all reviews of teas from Golden Tips on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/brand/golden-tips/505/http://ratetea.com/review/4537/http://ratetea.com/review/4537/Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:34:20 ESTI thought this an exceptional tea, probably the best white tea I've ever sampled. Another lost review that I somehow missed posting. The leaf of this tea is wonderfully fragrant, with an aroma completely distinct from both Chinese silver needle teas, and the very different variants of them I've tried from Africa or Sri Lanka. The aroma is floral, with hints of the muscatel quality I associate with Darjeelings, and also a pungent earthy note, and a bit of malt. The leaf is intact but looks small and...http://ratetea.com/review/4334/http://ratetea.com/review/4334/Tue, 21 Apr 2015 05:49:28 ESTI have been to Avaata Tea Estate in the Nilgiris in southern India. The natural tea leaves are perfect in shape and need not to be fermented. Each single sip of tea fills your mouth with sensation of fruits and flowers. Fairly sharp and extremely smooth flavor. Golden Tips Teas are doing great work to assemble best of first flush teas in Spring season. http://ratetea.com/review/4325/http://ratetea.com/review/4325/Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:51:28 ESTMagnificent! Not quite what I would expect form green tea; definitely thought is was more reminiscent of high quality green oolongs. I couldn't get enough of the vegetal flavor and buttery soupy texture. This was a thick tea, and practically a meal in itself. Handles well over multiple steepings; I'm pretty sure I stretched this out over three. Each one was just as good as the first. I'm impressed by this company and most of their products! I look forward to trying more of their samples.http://ratetea.com/review/4318/http://ratetea.com/review/4318/Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:57:36 EST I can pick up notes of roses, grass, licorice, bay, tulsi, mysterious sharp spices, pepper, anise, fennel, so many layers and herbs! It is a plethora of plant and spice notes that manage to not be a cacophony or smell like a nasty medicinal brew, which is always a good sign. The taste of this tea can be summed up in three easy words: mild, herbaceous, and unique. Ok, job done...I kid, I kid. But really this tea is surprisingly mild, in both the taste and especially the rose factor, usually rosy teas ar...http://ratetea.com/review/4289/http://ratetea.com/review/4289/Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:38:04 ESTA traditional chai that is smooth in flavor but is potently spiced, and equally enjoyable with and without milk. For having such a finely-broken (CTC) base, this tea is surprisingly mellow and smooth. The dry leaf smells very fresh and light, and the dominant aroma is cardamom, and I can also detect clove. This bodes well for me--as cardamom is my favorite spice for chai, and many commercial blends skimp on it as it is the priciest of the spices usually put into these blends. Brews up a rich cup wh...http://ratetea.com/review/4272/http://ratetea.com/review/4272/Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:12:18 ESTThis is one of the best green teas I've tried to come out of India, or anywhere outside China and Japan for that matter. It also tasted the most like a top-notch Chinese green tea, of any tea I've tried yet from India. The dry leaf of this tea is very loosely packed, consisting of whole, intact leaves which are large but look quite thin and delicate. They have a pleasant aroma, a lot like a top-grade of tippy Chinese green tea, with a hint of the aroma of hot cereal or porridge, a sort of sweet grainy...http://ratetea.com/review/4271/http://ratetea.com/review/4271/Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:55:12 ESTThe aroma of the rather large, pale, leaves is a bit light at first, but some good snuffling brings out the notes of fresh cut vegetation, baking bread, lima beans and green beans. This is another one of those teas that makes me hungry while sniffing it again. The taste is unique, like a blend of a first flush Darjeeling and a green tea. It starts buttery and peppery with floral notes and distinct vegetal. There are notes of green beans, lima beans, and a finish of yeasty baking bread. This tea is fairl...http://ratetea.com/review/4244/http://ratetea.com/review/4244/Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:11:33 ESTI will always highly recommended Arya Ruby Darjeeling Black Tea to you as a great, refreshing brew – matching the high standards I’ve come to expect from Golden Tips Tea Co. Pvt. Ltd. following sampling their other teas.http://ratetea.com/review/4225/http://ratetea.com/review/4225/Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:28:51 ESTOne of the most atypical Darjeeling teas, tasting more to me like a white tea than a black, I found this was interesting, but not for me. I was disappointed in it for many of the same reasons I tend not to like silver needle white tea. I've tried this same tea from a different seller, Happy Earth Tea, the 2014 harvest as well. I don't know if it's a different grade, or different harvest, or if the timing has impacted the flavor (the first one I tried in may, this one is February of the next year), but...http://ratetea.com/review/4215/http://ratetea.com/review/4215/Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:36:11 ESTA very pleasant tea, quite dark for a Darjeeling, and with a pleasant astringency. The dry leaf is dark and smells fruity, suggesting sweetness, and also very malty. Brews up a dark cup, even for a second-flush Darjeeling. Aroma is strongly fruity. For having the name Muscatel though, this tea isn't among the teas I've sampled with the strongest muscat aroma. It's also malty for a Darjeeling, and there's an edgy quality, a pleasant astringency, hinting at the sharpness of an Assam but more muted. ...http://ratetea.com/review/4211/http://ratetea.com/review/4211/Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:48:18 ESTAn earthy, complex tea whose true colors only seem to come out if brewed strongly. The leaf of this is well-formed, but mostly dark (darker than suggested by the picture), and it has a strong and deep aroma, like a classic or typical Assam but with more complexity, more earthy and vegetal. Produces a cup with a pungent aroma and a very bold flavor. Tastes sort of dirty and coarse. The aroma is earthy, vegetal, grainy, and with notes of dried fruit and strange herbaceous notes. Rich and robust, and...http://ratetea.com/review/4200/http://ratetea.com/review/4200/Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:18:29 ESTA unique tea, very different in aroma from any other Darjeeling second flush I've tried. Excellent, but I think I'd like it more if it were more bitter. The dry leaf smells aromatic, fresh, and light, with herbaceous and spicy notes. It also looks strikingly beautiful--and fascinatingly, the color of the leaf, a mix of silver and brown hues, looks a lot like moonlight white (Yueguang bai cha), an unusual type of Yunnan tea that I think bears little other relationship to this tea. Upon brewing, a st...http://ratetea.com/review/4198/http://ratetea.com/review/4198/Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:57:08 ESTThis second-flush Darjeeling was very different from the other one from Jungpana estate, that I just tried from this same company. I prepared them the same ways. I didn't like this tea as much, but it was still good. The dry leaf is not quite as intensely aromatic, but has a fascinating aroma with a fleeting wintergreen note and a hint of malt. Upon brewing, the cup takes on a subdued quality reminding me of cool, clean stone in a forest. The cup has a strong cooling quality, more so than most aut...http://ratetea.com/review/4197/http://ratetea.com/review/4197/Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:49:41 ESTExcellent! Probably the maltiest Darjeeling tea I've ever tried, yet smoother and without the tannic edge of an Assam. Otherwise, typical for an autumnal flush. Dry leaf has a rich, caramelly aroma, fruit, malty for a Darjeeling, and suggesting sweetness. Upon brewing produces a cup with a rich fruity aroma, somewhere between raisins and fresh grapes, and caramel notes. The flavor is very rounded: there's not much bite up front, but it's bold, slightly bitter, in a soft way, and with considerable ...http://ratetea.com/review/4177/http://ratetea.com/review/4177/Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:34:21 ESTGolden Tips describes this on their website as a pretty exceptional tea, and I think it fully lived up to the description. The dry leaf, beautifully curled and full of bright orange tip, is the most aromatic of any Assam I've encountered, with an intensely malty aroma, suggesting rye malt, and spicy as well. Upon brewing, produces a surprisingly alien and novel aroma, fruity, vegetal, but with a lot of unfamiliar aromatic notes. A little dirty tasting, earthy. When brewed more strongly, I find the ...http://ratetea.com/review/4110/http://ratetea.com/review/4110/Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:07:21 ESTThe aroma of the dry leaves is, as expected, quite delicious to the nose, there is a strong muscatel presence, blending fresh juicy grapes and a hint of the more honey sweet raisins. Also fresh hay, a touch of peppery nasturtium leaves, and a bit of freshly crushed parsley at the finish giving the tea a neat herbaceous touch. Ok, so the taste, well, wow! One of the things I love about Darjeeling tea, especially first flush, is how the taste reminds me of Scuppernongs, the super sweet and juicy grape v...