Chocolate Mint Whisper White Tea from Nature’s Tea Leaf

chocolatemintwhisperTea Information:

Leaf Type:  White

Where to Buy:  Nature’s Tea Leaf

Tea Description:

Chocolate Mint Whisper White Tea is an exclusive blend of a select White Peony tea with pure peppermint leaves and rich Belgian chocolate. The whole leaf tea is evenly mixed with fresh cut mint leaves that are dried naturally to preserve their flavor. Belgian semisweet dark chocolate curls are expertly combined to provide the drinker with a tea that is decadent in aroma but with a flavor that is fresh and minty with hints of rich and velvety chocolate.

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Taster’s Review:

I gotta tell ya, the more I try chocolate blends from Nature’s Tea Leaf, like this Chocolate Mint Whisper White Tea, the more I’m liking them.  First of all, I love the big curls of chocolate that this blend has.  Not just dark Belgian chocolate, but, white chocolate curls too!  Sure … the chocolate melts and there are some that will argue that the melted chocolate in the tea clouds up the tea.  And it does.  But, I don’t care!  It’s CHOCOLATE!  And when this chocoholic sees cute little chocolate curls mixed into the dry leaf of a tea … the inner child in me squeals with delight.

The White Peony tea leaves seem to respond to this blend differently … that is to say, this doesn’t taste like a typical Bai Mu Dan.  There are similar qualities, of course, like the straw-like taste (imagine the air that surrounds a dry hay stack) but, I don’t really notice a vegetative quality or other notes that I often associate with a white tea.  But one thing that I do notice here … is an earthy undertone to the white tea that is often overlooked.  So … while the ingredients in this blend may have overwhelmed some of the nuances of the white tea, it has also brought forward some flavors of the white tea that is not usually noticed.  Like I said … the tea responds differently to this blend … and I, for one, like it.

The mint was a little … difficult to detect with the first few sips. The whole “Whisper” in the name made sense … because the peppermint was indeed a whisper of a taste.  And now that I am more than halfway finished with my cup of tea, I notice more mint taste than i did with my first couple of sips … it is still quite a delicate flavor, noticed mostly when I suck in a breath and allow the air to flow over my palate.  It is then that I notice a crisp, clean note that is distinctly mint.

This tea is deliciously chocolate-y, and what I really liked about this blend is that even though it was a white tea, it had a pleasing amount of chocolate flavor … but not so much that I lost sight of the fact that it was tea that I was drinking. I liked that I could taste the white tea, and I liked that this tea offered me a different perspective of white tea.  A very interesting blend – one that I’d recommend to any chocolate lover.

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