Reviews of Teas & Herbal Teas
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Green Tea (Ato-bi process) from ITO EN
Style: Green Tea – Region: Japan79 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 23rd, 2018
This was quite a discovery. I purchased this at a Chinese market in Edison, NJ. I was surprised to see a Japanese tea for sale, but I grabbed it because I saw D. Gray had reviewed it and was eager to try it. I wasn't disappointed!
The dry leaf is a rich, yellow-green color, and pleasantly aromatic, smelling sweet an...
Ramanugger Estate FTGFOP1 Organic from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Assam – Region: Karbi Anglong, Assam, India74 / 100 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 21st, 2018
I specifically sought this tea out because it was from a region of Assam that is a little higher-altitude, and from where I hadn't previously tried any teas. Interestingly, it did taste a little more like a Darjeeling and other high-grown Himalayan region teas. Although I thought it was a very good tea, I liked it less...
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Energy Red from Teatulia
Style: Wellness Tea / Medicinal Tea – Region: Blend60 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
May. 21st, 2018
Energy Red is a weird tea, truly an odd bird among herbals I've tried, that comes across flavor-wise as both sweet and mellow, and also reminiscent of the underside of a lawn mower. Yet corporately, it claims to be an energy booster despite no caffeine or sugar, and caters to the hurried and impatient drinker as somet...
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English Tradition from Farmer Brothers
Style: Black Tea – Region: ?????77 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 20th, 2018
I couldn't tell if English Tradition was an English Breakfast an English Afternoon, so against such traditions, I drank it in the evening in America.
Of the three black teas from Farmer Brothers (FB) that I have reviewed, all of which were surprisingly tolerable, this product has been the best across the board. A...
Ceylon (Ceylon Orange Pekoe) from Ahmad Tea
Style: Ceylon Black Tea – Region: Sri Lanka / Ceylon75 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 19th, 2018
A local Middle Eastern grocery store stocks several varieties of Ahmad tea, including this one.
The dry leaves are quite broken, with medium-small pieces. The aroma of the leaves is malty, but not particularly strong. Once the tea starts brewing, though, the aroma greatly intensifies. It's not as complex as some oth...
Huang Ya Imperial Yellow Tea from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Yellow Tea – Region: China45 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 2/5
May. 19th, 2018
Yellow tea! I was turned on by the possibility of trying a new variety of tea, one that I had not heard of before. But this was nothing groundbreaking - it seemed to fall in between the green and oolong styles, leaning toward oolong. It was all right, but there were no revelations here. Overpriced imo.
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Gin-Zen Green Tea from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Ginseng Green Tea – Region: China55 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 2/5 Value: 3/5
May. 18th, 2018
Chinese sencha tea made with ginseng, ginger, and pineapple. The description makes it seem exotic and potent, but it is fairly mild and not really very exciting.
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Season's Pick Colombian Leafy Black Tea Organic from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Black Tea – Region: Colombia95 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
May. 17th, 2018
Another exquisite tea from the Bitaco estate in Columbia! This was a smooth black tea that tasted top-quality, but was a bit weak on the resteep. Tastes better when brewed strongly. I served this tea to two different people as well and they both loved it.
I've been trying different grades and batches or variants of ...
Pu-erh Classic from Rishi Tea
Style: Ripened (Shou) Pu-erh – Region: Yunnan, China69 / 100 Aroma: 5/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5
May. 17th, 2018
This is my first unflavored puerh, so I don't have anything to compare it to. Mine was aged for 3 years so it might be slightly different from the normal version, but probably not that much. I had to air it out for a week to get rid of the smell of fish. Once that went away, the aroma of the dry leaves became earthy in...
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Special English Breakfast from Harney and Sons
Style: English Breakfast – Region: Blend85 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
May. 16th, 2018
I find this to be a bit of a fascinating tea. Unlike H&S's other English Breakfast offerings (that I'm aware of), it's not a full-leaf tea. Instead, it comes in what looks to be small granule-like pieces. Unlike fannings, these look to be deliberately ground, and it is surely ground finely - I wouldn't suggest using me...
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Lapsang Souchong from Harney and Sons
Style: Lapsang Souchong – Region: Wuyi, Fujian, China90 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 16th, 2018
I am a bit of a connoisseur of Lapsang Souchong. I have tried them from many different brands, and I think that the H&S offering of it is by far the best. The smokiness of it is beyond fantastic and I think that it's just amazing.
As a previous reviewer said, Lapsang Souchong isn't really a tea for everyone - it sme...
Berries and Cherries from Trader Joe's
Style: Fruit (Herbal) Tea – Region: ?????98 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 4/5
May. 16th, 2018
This is a really great fruit tea. It’s a great balance of tartness and sweetness, whether served hot or cold. The tea initially diffuses more slowly than I expected, but it does ultimately add plenty of flavor.
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Oolong Tea from Imperial Organic
Style: Oolong Tea – Region: ?????30 / 100 Aroma: 3/10 Flavor: 1/5 Value: 2/5
May. 16th, 2018
I was hoping this would be a lighter oolong from the description ("partially oxidized green tea"), but I knew as soon as I opened a bag and smelled it that it was fairly heavily roasted. The aroma is mostly just roast. I'm having trouble identifying specific flavors. It's just kind of generic and boring. It also leaves...
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Iced Classic Black Tea (Loose) from Pure Leaf
Style: Black Tea – Region: Kenya72 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5
May. 16th, 2018
The dry leaf is floral and malty, just as Pure Leaf and the other reviewer describe it. Once brewed, there's a hint of dried fruit as well as wood; otherwise it's pretty similar to the dry aroma. Despite this tea coming from Kenya, the taste reminds me a bit of all three of the main tea growing regions of India: the ma...
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Decaffeinated Green Tea with White Tea from Celestial Seasonings
Style: Green and White Blend – Region: ?????60 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
May. 15th, 2018
This is one of my favorite decaf teas.
Like all Celestial Seasonings teas, the stringless, tagless, square tea bags are connected in pairs and are not wrapped. The box has an inner package of waxed paper to keep the tea fresh until the package is opened, but I always move the tea bags to an airtight container after ...
Matcha iri Genmaicha from Harney and Sons
Style: Genmaicha – Region: Japan78 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5
May. 14th, 2018
I should really stop posting first impressions. I often end up rewriting the whole review. This tea took some time to get used to. I disliked the toasted rice at first and wished it was just bancha and matcha, but then I realized that it's the combination of everything that makes this tea work: the bancha provides a ni...
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Sencha Scent of Mountains from Harney and Sons
Style: Sencha – Region: Shizuoka, Japan75 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5
May. 14th, 2018
Sencha Scent of Mountains is a very aptly named tea. It has the most wonderful aroma of any tea I've ever had (beyond Lapsang Souchong) and it truly is an amazing sencha.
The scent can be described as vaguely forest-y with the rich buttery background of a proper sencha. It's quite difficult to describe, but it is tr...
Nandi Royal GFBOP Black Tea from Upton Tea Imports
Style: Black Tea – Region: Nandi, Kenya86 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5
May. 13th, 2018
Probably the strongest tea I have had in a long time. I loved this one. It's not for the faint of heart, though!
Upton's humble "Nandi Royal OP" really blew me away, so I was eager to try this. Compared to that one, this is a higher-grade broken-leaf tea, more tippy, but more broken. The price on this is slightly hi...
Candy Cane Green Tea from Trader Joe's
Style: Flavored Green Tea – Region: Blend88 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 13th, 2018
Straight up, this is a blatant, unapologetic and remarkably close approximation of Celestial Seasonings' Candy Cane Lane (one of my very favorite teas), right down to the decaf green tea, the rest of the ingredients list, and the square stringless flat bags housed in a gummed wax-paper pouch, within a similarly sized b...
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Nilgiri Blue Mountain from Jasmine Pearl Tea Company
Style: Black Tea – Region: Nilgiri, India70 / 100 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 4/5
May. 13th, 2018
This is an odd tea. Very mild aroma, extremely mellow woody flavor, but then there's the most wonderfully fruity finish if you brew it just right. I feel like it would be better in a blend than on its own, with something else adding more body and flavor and this tea providing its lingering fruity finish. I did try blen...
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English Breakfast from Benner Tea Co
Style: English Breakfast – Region: ?????25 / 100 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 1/5 Value: 2/5
May. 12th, 2018
It smells sort of like an English Breakfast blend, I guess. Sort of woody. Far from the most aromatic tea. It tastes like cardboard, very thin, and it's extremely astringent even when brewed for only 3 minutes. The only use for this I can think of is cold brewing it and adding lemonade. It's terrible on its own, and th...
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Formosa Oolong from Harney and Sons
Style: Oolong Tea – Region: Taiwan / Formosa72 / 100 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 11th, 2018
The H&S Formosa Oolong was my first experience with Taiwanese oolong-style tea. As such, I had no idea what to expect going in to it.
Now, I'm not a really big oolong drinker. I mostly like blacks and Japanese greens. As such, my only other experience with oolong (at this time) is a Chinese TGY. Compared to that, th...
Russian Country from Harney and Sons
Style: Russian Caravan – Region: Blend90 / 100 Aroma: 10/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5
May. 11th, 2018
Now, I'm biased. I love me some Lapsang Souchong, which as I gather, is relatively unusual. I love it so much that I'll drink it straight. I love the woodiness of it, and the campfire-like smell to it.
Russian Country, however, is a step up. While it doesn't have as much of that lovely flavour profile of a LS, it's ...
English Breakfast from Harney and Sons
Style: English Breakfast – Region: China80 / 100 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 5/5
May. 11th, 2018
Like the tin says, it's definitely entirely comprised of nothing but Keemun, with the vegetal, almost barnyard-esque notes of the tea shining through. Probably why it's normally mixed in a typical English Breakfast. It does, however, smell delicious - like any good black tea, it's got that heady aroma of caffeine yet t...
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Keemun Concerto from Adagio Teas
Style: Keemun Mao Feng – Region: Anhui, China60 / 100 Aroma: 2/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5
May. 7th, 2018
I'm having a hard time rating this tea. It smelled pretty bad to me, like burnt pine. I guess that's the smokiness. The flavor was nicely earthy and slightly chocolaty with the occasional subtle fruit note. I enjoyed the flavor, but hated the aroma. I always knew it was done brewing and would taste the way I liked it w...
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