This is the feed of all reviews of teas from Simon Lévelt on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/brand/simon-lvelt/624/http://ratetea.com/review/5851/http://ratetea.com/review/5851/Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:42:31 ESTThis tea tastes okay, but there's nothing really special. It has a warm and earthy aroma that I feel is pretty common for half-decent black teas. It's drinkable even when it gets a bit bitter. It's not bad for a tea this price if you just want something to drink every day, but there are better options out there for similar prices.http://ratetea.com/review/5431/http://ratetea.com/review/5431/Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:05:32 ESTBased on my experiences with black gunpowder, I was not surprised that this doesn't taste like Mao Feng at all. It's more like other Chinese black teas I've had. It's got just a tiny little bit of sweetness but it's hardly there. It's pleasantly almost-bitter (but I did make it pretty strong). Resteeps quite decently. It's a nice tea but nothing exciting.http://ratetea.com/review/5398/http://ratetea.com/review/5398/Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:20:06 ESTMy friend gave me some of this tea to try. I'm not good at tasting the difference between different greenish oolongs. Jade oolong, four seasons, Tie Guanyin, they often taste almost the same to me. It was the same with this one at the first steeping. The second cup tasted different, though, like jade oolong but greener. It reminded me of Mao Feng green tea. I hardly even paid attention to the flavour and aroma of the third cup because that one had a really strange mouthfeel. Sometimes teas feel a ...http://ratetea.com/review/5249/http://ratetea.com/review/5249/Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:29:39 EST"Warming" is indeed the best word to describe this tea. It smells like baked goods: what comes to mind is Finnish christmas cookie dough. I can clearly taste the anise and the licorice, the cinnamon too, but I'm not sure about the sage, honeybush and orange. Actually, this tea tastes like anise and licorice but not that much else. Which is okay, but... I would personally increase the proportion of cinnamon. With many flavoured teas and blends, I find myself wondering what this or that ingredient contrib...http://ratetea.com/review/5247/http://ratetea.com/review/5247/Fri, 04 Aug 2017 08:30:19 ESTThis tea smells similar to Simon Lévelt's Ruhuna Orange Pekoe. The leaves are more colourful, with many golden tones, but the aroma has a similar strong dried fruit quality. However, I don't think I'd describe it as plums, exactly. Raisins come to mind, or rather, a kind of spicy raisin cake. The liqueur tastes very sweet and fruity, but I think I definitely understand that this tea is supposed to taste peppery. It's far, far better than I remember it! I recall that at first I thought it smelled and ta...http://ratetea.com/review/5242/http://ratetea.com/review/5242/Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:55:46 ESTThis tea could almost be summarised in a single word: Nutty. It has an intensely nutty aroma and flavour. It also reminds me of dry autumn leaves (not that I've tasted many of those, but I can't shake the association). I'm not a fan of nutty teas, so I don't really enjoy this one. This is the first tea I tried with such a nutty flavour so I mentally compare lots of teas to this one. It's become an archetype of sorts. More interestingly, I was lucky enough to obtain Vietnamese bitter gourd tea, which re...http://ratetea.com/review/5201/http://ratetea.com/review/5201/Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:37:35 ESTThis is the reason I've never really tasted "smokiness" (supposedly present in gunpowder and young hyson) in teas that aren't actually smoked. Lapsang souchong was the first loose-leaf tea I ever drank - in fact, curiosity about this smoked tea I'd heard about is what drove me to try loose-leaf tea. (This is not that first one, though. I finished that a long time ago.) Really, this tea is a bit like the essence of a wood-heated sauna: wood smoke and steam! It never fails to remind me of Finland: wood fi...http://ratetea.com/review/5171/http://ratetea.com/review/5171/Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:36:21 ESTThe dry leaves look green, orange and black, and the used leaves a really soft greenish orange. The liquid is much lighter than most other black teas I have. This tea is extremely smooth and soft and tastes kind of earthy. It doesn't easily get bitter.http://ratetea.com/review/5155/http://ratetea.com/review/5155/Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:31:24 ESTI don't know what it is about this tea, but I always oversteep it. The first time I ever made it, I even forgot about it for one and a half hours. When I found it, it was cold and bitter. (In my defense, it was graduation day and I was a bit distracted.) And just now when I wanted to review it it got too strong again, though this time I may have used too much leaf. I remember from the few times I did manage to make it properly that it essentially tastes like a mix of green tea and lapsang souchong. It ...http://ratetea.com/review/5144/http://ratetea.com/review/5144/Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:45:15 ESTA blend of gunpowder tea and dried mint. It tastes the same as the mint tea I made before this, using gunpowder tea and mint. It's easier because the ingredients are already together, but I don't consider that an advantage. I loved all the steps of making mint tea before. No matter. This seems to contain a lot of mint in proportion to the tea, but the taste is fine. It tastes like mint tea the way I like it: sweet in a very warm way. It is possible to oversteep it, but there's some margin for error beca...http://ratetea.com/review/5134/http://ratetea.com/review/5134/Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:32:04 ESTThe dry tea leaves smell like dried plums. The tea tastes very sweet and maybe kind of spicy. If you don't use too much leaf it doesn't easily get bitter either. It's relatively cheap for a loose-leaf tea, as well. It's pretty nice as an everyday black tea, but the way it smells is the best thing about it.http://ratetea.com/review/5133/http://ratetea.com/review/5133/Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:39:33 ESTOther Vietnamese teas I've had have been fantastic, so I decided to give this a try. It's good enough, it's got a little bit of what I love so much about Nam Lanh OP and Pin Ho Jade from De Theefabriek, the flavour I can best describe as "smoldering", especially if you use a generous amount of leaf. It's fine for two steepings, but more than that is not worth it. This one is sweeter and maybe fruitier. It's not quite as good as Pin Ho Jade, but if you don't hope for it to be something else, Yen Bai Gree...