This is the feed of all reviews of teas from Het Gouden Randje on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/brand/gouden-randje/625/http://ratetea.com/review/5528/http://ratetea.com/review/5528/Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:13:40 ESTVery powerful jasmine aroma (which is always just on the edge of agreeable for me, but that's just personal taste). Luckily the tea itself doesn't taste as sharp. Strong jasmine taste, but not too strong, a little sweet. It kind of dries the mouth, though. The used leaves don't look too pretty; quite broken with lots of stems, but that's probaby normal for jasmine. (The same goes for the dry leaves, for that matter.) I don't have an extremely discerning taste in flavoured teas; I just wanted a tea that...http://ratetea.com/review/5357/http://ratetea.com/review/5357/Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:01:42 ESTI have asked about Vietnamese teas so many times that the owner of Het Gouden Randje ordered this tea! She tells me she likes it too and that she'd already sold some to another customer, and thanked me for the tip. She also advised me to steep it multiple times, at least three. It's cheap, too; just €5 per 100 g. (I reserve the five star value rating for teas that are really good and incredibly cheap, in the range of 250-500 g packs for just a few euros. Otherwise this would get a full five stars.) ...http://ratetea.com/review/5272/http://ratetea.com/review/5272/Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:17:04 ESTI drank a cup of this tea at Het Gouden Randje. It has a vegetal aroma and a grassy flavour. The colour is a lovely yellow-green. It has a pleasant hint of bitterness (which reminds me of UNAMI's Kabuse Cha, which is my only previous run-in with sencha). There's no sweetness in the flavour, and even though I usually love sweetish teas, this one was really nice. Also, I've seen sencha described as seaweed-like many times, and I am inclined to agree. I need to remember this tea.http://ratetea.com/review/5261/http://ratetea.com/review/5261/Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:44:00 ESTI drank this in Het Gouden Randje's tearoom. It smelled sweet and creamy, and almost like custard. Definitely like vanilla. I was amazed with how the clear liquor tasted and felt milky. It's soft and sweetish. It actually reminds me of a cheap artificial-vanilla-flavoured bagged tea that I used to drink years ago, but this is softer and gentler. It leaves a thick, milky mouthfeel afterward, but as I swallowed, I tasted something pleasantly sharper or rougher (although it's possible I burned my tongue a...http://ratetea.com/review/5260/http://ratetea.com/review/5260/Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:36:56 ESTThis is a new tea that Het Gouden Randje has just added to its inventory. I drank a cup of it in the tea shop, and I did my best to taste it properly. It's always difficult, though; I prefer to drink teas at home with more controlled conditions and multiple chances to get to know them properly. I feel like this time especially I didn't get the full experience. The tea leaves are rolled into tight balls like a jade oolong, which means the (unrolled) osmanthus petals were discernible. I didn't really t...http://ratetea.com/review/5244/http://ratetea.com/review/5244/Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:20:04 ESTA friend of mine drinks lots of flavoured rooibos, and after trying a few cheap bagged varieties, I decided I like citrus-flavoured rooibos and got some loose rooibos. This rooibos with (among others) lemongrass and ginger is okay, but I don't like it that much. I can't really get it to taste like much more than lemon, though there is a lovely hint of cinnamon. This time I used even more than before and I kind of taste the rooibos as well. This tea, as well as the rooibos teabags, have been untouched...http://ratetea.com/review/5240/http://ratetea.com/review/5240/Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:15:28 ESTThis tea smells pleasantly fungal and like straw, like damp autumn leaves and moist earth. The flavour is very soft and smooth and it never gets bitter or sour. I have, in the past, forgotten about it and left it to steep for more than five, maybe even ten minutes, and it's still been smooth. Even when it's strong, though, it seems slightly thin to me which feels at odds with the earthiness of the aroma. As an aside, I often get the feeling that my ratings are on the low side. On one hand I want to be a...http://ratetea.com/review/5178/http://ratetea.com/review/5178/Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:54:15 ESTI bought this tea before and remember it as lovely and flowery, but when I bought more of it later, it just... wasn't so great. It looks nice with the tightly rolled balls of leaves. It's got a kind of metallic taste that I find a bit unpleasant. That could be the jasmine-like taste that the product description mentions, though - now that I think of it, it really reminds me of the one jasmine tea I own (though that one is of poor quality). This tea is not actually flavoured with anything, though. It does ...http://ratetea.com/review/5177/http://ratetea.com/review/5177/Sun, 25 Jun 2017 06:34:11 ESTI asked the owner of Het Gouden Randje to recommend me a sweet black tea. Once it was cleared up that I wasn't interested in flavoured teas, I was offered this one, and I was charmed with the smell. It smells warm and sweet with a hint of honey. If you don't use too much leaf, it doesn't easily get bitter even if you leave to steep it for too long. And yes, it does taste a little sweet too. A very smooth and easy-going everyday black tea.http://ratetea.com/review/5176/http://ratetea.com/review/5176/Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:45:44 ESTI bought this to keep at my parents' house to use as everyday green tea. It's a bit too subtle for an everyday tea, though. I also never seem to be able to get my tea quite right here. It is very light, but doesn't feel thin, and it has a slightly sweet aftertaste. The colour is a lovely bright greenish yellow. I'm thinking of maybe buying a stronger green tea for everyday use at my parents' house, and taking this to my own apartment so I can do it a bit more justice. EDIT: I took it home and tried br...http://ratetea.com/review/5172/http://ratetea.com/review/5172/Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:50:41 ESTHet Gouden Randje offers sweet high tea arrangements for groups of four to eight people, so I invited some friends along on my birthday. You get served three rounds, each with two kinds of tea and something sweet to eat (such as cookies, cake, parfaits...) You'll get to taste several different kinds of tea from very fancy teaware. They were all flavoured blends: We got two fruit teas, a flavoured white tea, an extremely citrusy black tea, a flavoured rooibos and some sweet herbal tea. In the end, everyone ...http://ratetea.com/review/5140/http://ratetea.com/review/5140/Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:31:38 ESTThis is the standard Earl Grey carried by Het Gouden Randje, but it's unusually citrus-y. I mentioned once that this tea is different from other Earl Greys I'm used to and the owner of the shop told me that other customers had said similar things. So, it tastes and smells really citrus-y, almost like it's flavoured with lemon in addition to bergamot, much fruitier than most Earl Greys. It was relatively cheap, too, just €1.80 for 50 g. It's best as it is, without milk or sugar (sometimes I like to dr...http://ratetea.com/review/5137/http://ratetea.com/review/5137/Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:28:47 ESTI asked the owner of Het Gouden Randje to recommend me a Chinese green tea, and she served me this. I don't usually go for flavoured teas, but this one was so good that I bought 50 grams of it. I can't actually remember the price (of course it doesn't help that I bought three other kinds of tea at the same time, as well as that cup of tea I drank) but generally the prices at this tea shop are very decent, so I'm guessing this has good value too. Both the dry tea and the infusion smell like apricots, and...