Tea Type: Green Tea
Where To Buy: Joy’s Teaspoon
Product Description:
Cherries play an important role in Japanese culture. The cherry blossom festival which takes place every year is beautiful to look at. The exquisite Sencha base was refined with high-quality sour cherries and a tempting cherry flavor. This blend is doubtless a real classic among the flavored green teas and belongs in every assortment.
Tasters Review:
Japanese Cherry from Joy’s Teaspoon is really great tasting Sencha and the Cherry is delightful! I have had Cherry flavored Greens before and many other companies over do it on their flavoring! Either they overdue it or it’s very artificial tasting or in some cases it tastes like medicine…you know…like Pepto or Cough Syrup or something! This is JUST RIGHT! I may just say this is my FAVORITE Japanese Cherry to date! Nicely flavored green!
A little more about Japanese Cherry and Cherry Blossoms:
A cherry blossom is the flower of the cherry trees known as Sakura (桜 or 櫻; さくら?). In English, “sakura” refers to the Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata.[1][2] Cherry fruit (桜んぼ, sakuranbo?) comes from another species of tree.
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Bird of Paradise Tea from Alice’s Fine Tea
Tea Type: Flowering Tea/Blooming Tea
Where To Buy: Alice’s Fine Tea
Product Description:
This bloom unfolds into beautiful birds perched in a golden nest surround by green. Not only is it visually surprising, but the taste is surprisingly spicy and reminds one of autumn, like pumpkin pie!. One of the favorites at Alice’s Fine Teas, a delicious, warm, soothing tea. Ingredients: Marigold (believed to help circulation and ease stomach ache), Lily (said to enhance energy and to have a cooling effect) and Silver Needle Tea
Tasters Review:
Surprisingly this DOES taste a lot like pumpkin or maybe more of a butternut squash with yummy spice notes underneath! As it cools at room temperature it does taste more like pumpkin…not really pumpkin pie, but pumpkin. It’s almost like a flavored silver needle! It’s very nice – very surprising! It’s also slightly peppery in the middle of the sip but finishing somewhat soothing and flatter.
The 2nd infusion…is completely different. It’s floral from start to finish and a little bitter…but floral bitter, not bad bitter. I would say more marigold, specifically.
I will say this is one of the more perfectly bloomed Flowering Teas I have had…it had no problem blooming whatsoever! It was very beautiful and it was very aromatic even before infusing. This is certainly a tea for special occasions and certainly a piece of art! I enjoyed this quite a bit.
Chrysanthemum Double Trouble from Butiki Teas
Tea Type: Flowering/Blooming Tea
Where To Buy: Butiki Teas
Product Description:
Chrysanthemum Double Trouble
Chrysanthemum Double Trouble is a display tea that consists of a green tea base and has two chrysanthemum flowers, an amaranth globe, and jasmine flowers. This floral tea has a slight marine flavor.Recommended Brew Time: 6+ minutes
Recommended Amount: 1 Chrysanthemum piece per teapot Recommended Temperature: 170 F
Tasters Review:
I decided to wind down my day with this flowering/blooming tea last night.
It smells like fresh peas and flowers! I don’t know about you, but I LOVE the aroma of fresh from the garden peas!
This tastes delicate, slightly sweet but floral yet a different floral taste than I am used to or expect from a flowering or blooming tea. I do like that it is a different floral taste, I might add! It leaves a half floral – half fresh pea type aftertaste.
Lovely flowering tea! I think this is a goodie! This tea is certainly for me!
Lover’s Lane from Indie Tea
Tea Type: Green Tea
Where To Buy: Indie Tea
Product Description:
Lover’s Lane
Ahhh…Who Can Argue Against Romance?To Turn An Otherwise Ordinary Occasion Into A Treasured Memory Where If You Play Your Cards Right, You May Even Get To See A Full Moon.
Steeping Instructions: Measure 1.5 teaspoonsof tea to 8 oz of water. Heat water to 180 degrees, pour over the tea leaves, and steep tea leaves for three to four minutes.
2.8 oz.Ingredients: Organic and Fair Trade Dragon Well Green Tea, Organic Rose Buds, Organic Orange Slices, Organic Lavender Buds.
Tasters Review:
I was going to try and only post holiday-related teas this week but I couldn’t resist posting one of the ones I recently received from Indie Teas. This one is lovely!
With Lover’s Lane from Indie Tea I can mostly smell Lavender prior to infusion. After the infusion I can smell the orange a little bit, too!
The taste is very nice. It’s a little on the lighter side but very pleasant and tasty and smooth. I can taste the orange and the floral ingredients as well as the green tea!
I really like Indie Teas! They are 100 percent organic! They have nice labels and packaging that make them unique and the names and descriptions for their tea selections are fun and memorable! They are also Fair Trade Trades!
They’re very artsy, too! I LOVE that! Very colorful and full of personality! PLUS…they are in Las Vegas and many of you know how much I LOVE Las Vegas! They’re located on Flamingo Road!
If you ever have the opportunity to try their teas – please do – not only are they memorable but they are tasty, very aromatic, and of great quality!
Chocolate Earl Grey (TE13) from Upton Tea Imports
Tea Type: Black Tea
Where To Buy: Upton Tea Imports
Product Description:
Description:
A premium black tea combining the popular tastes of bergamot and chocolate with a hint of lemon. Decorated with flower petals and lemon peel for a delightful presentation.Ingredients:
black tea, chocolate pieces (sugar, cocoa, soy lecithin), cacao beans, lemongrass, lemon peel, corn flowers, jasmine flowers, sunflower blossoms, natural & artificial flavor
Origin:
Germany
Tasters Review:
My wonderful SororiTEA Sister Anne (AKA LiberTEAs) sent me some of this a while back and I thought I would officially add it to our blog as one of our reviews.
It’s been a while since I posted a review about an Earl Grey and I don’t think I have ever reviewed an Upton Tea on SororiTEA Sisters yet…so I figured I would check two items off of my Tea Review Bucket List today!
Chocolate Earl Grey from Upton Tea Imports – first and foremost – smells AMAZING! It’s pure chocolate and Earl Grey just like would would think – or HOPED – it would smell! This sort of takes me back to my obsession with Orange Chocolate as well! Ahhhh!
The aroma changes completely after infusion is complete. It’s still pleasant but not as awesome…I guess you could say. Don’t get me wrong – the aroma is still YUMMY but I can’t pick out each flavor like before. This doesn’t bother me too much because this often happens with flavored teas – as you know.
This infuses very dark brown and has a bit of cloudiness to it…I am assuming from the sugary-chocolate bits.
The taste is different but very good. I would say I can taste the cocoa type taste first then it quickly changes into a chocolate…so almost first being hot cocoa taste but then more of a chocolate bar taste. From there you can taste the black tea but then quickly changes into more of a bergamot and chocolate type taste. It ends more of a chocolaty-black tea flavored taste. Thru-out the entire sip it’s very smooth and the flavor changes intrigue me.
This is the first cup in a long time I have had to think about it with each sip (more than just a few sips, that is). This one kept my attention going strong the entire time.
As it cools at room temp for a few minutes I can taste a chocolate-woodsy-black tea type taste for the after taste more. This certainly isn’t a bad thing (in my book).
Anne told me to try a 2nd infusion with this one and I never pass up a 2nd infusion especially on a great cuppa! So for the 2nd Infusion…it smells like a gentle earl grey and cream.
The taste is still very smooth with a bit of sugary-ness to it and orange, floral, and cocoa hints hiding underneath.
This is a great infusion. Still a lovely tea overall…a nice treat!
Chocolate Earl Grey from Upton is an ADVENTURE in a cup! A great way to start or end the day! Wonderful!