White Lavender Tea from Tea of Life

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Leaf Type:  White

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Taster’s Review:

When I smelled the silky pouch filled with tea, I could smell the delightful notes of lavender.  Lavender is one of my favorite flowers when it comes to tea, so I was very interested in trying this tea.

The brewed liquid has a softer note of lavender than I experienced with the dry leaf, but that was expected (usually, the brewed tea does smell softer than the dry leaf).  I can smell more of the white tea notes now that the tea is brewed than I noticed when I smelled the dry leaf.  With the dry leaf, I could smell lavender, and not much else.

Hmm … I’m not really loving this.  The lavender tastes artificial in this.  It doesn’t have that natural, sweet note that I love.  Instead, it tastes like someone added a drop or two of lavender perfume to my teacup and I don’t really like that.

The white tea has a delicate, sweet taste to it, and I think I’d be enjoying this a lot more if the lavender wasn’t there.  The lavender just ruins it, and that’s something that I don’t often say about a lavender tea.  As I mentioned above, lavender is one of my favorite flowers when it comes to tea … so this not tasting the way I would like it to … is very disappointing.

Most of the teas that I’ve tried from Tea of Life I’ve actually quite enjoyed, but this one – unfortunately – gets a sad thumbs down from me.

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