Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Three Teas
Tea Description:
From the site: I finally have this tea back!! I sold out over Christmas. Whenever I got some more it was only a few packages at a time and they sold before I had time to post them. So get this while you can! This flavored tea is a wonderful addition to any tea connoisseurs collection.
This tea is made of Jasmine & Roses which gives this loose leaf Green Tea a memorable fragrance and flavor. The best of both worlds.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I have been addicted to floral teas this summer. To the point where I was craving them and digging thru my stash looking for any teas with rose petals or jasmine flowers. I will admit. I may have had a problem.
This tea actually ranks up there with the best floral teas I’ve tried so far. I love it!
Brewed this tea up with my Breville One Touch this morning for my travel companion for my way to work on the medium green tea setting. The packaging says to steep this for up to 5 minutes. I would be hesitant to steep this tea that long. I would start with 3 minutes on the first infusion to play it safe.
First sip in- I was insanely impressed. This version of a jasmine green tea not only gives you the best of the jasmine green tea world but with the addition of the rose petals there is an added sweetness. There are also notes of plums in each sip giving this floral tea a bit more depth than what I’ve had in the past. The green tea is lovely and is quite smooth and adds a touch of buttery creaminess to the tea. What a gorgeous tea! I’m very happy with how this tea turned out.
To be honest-I am hooked! I am sitting here at happy that I did bring the rest of the tea I have with me to work so I can make up another cuppa. I’m excited to try this tea as an iced tea and as a cold brew. I think I have enough to try this tea a few different ways.
This tea is truly a memorable one and will be on my radar to purchase more once I sipdown more teas.
This will be a sipdown by the end of the day. Woot! Woot! #26!
Jasmine Haiku from Treehouse Teas
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Treehouse Teas
Tea Description:
A soothing and peaceful green tea with surprising body and a captivating floral character. Jasmine blossoms picked only in May when they are in bloom accentuate this tea giving an intense aroma. From the Fujian Province in China this high antioxidant tea is best steeped 3-7 minutes at a temperature of 90C, 194F.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I have been on this crazy jasmine kick this summer. I used to stay away from any kind of floral teas and now I can’t seem to get enough. I asked the twins last night if they wanted some tea and they picked this one.
Brewed a pot up with the help of my Breville One Touch on the green and medium settings. I poured three cups, 1 for me and 1 for each of the twins.
We sat down to enjoy our tea while we watched our new addiction-Skin Wars on GSN, a body painting competition that is similar to Face Off. Before the first commercial break, one of the twins had finished his cup and was asking for more. I admit, I hadn’t even tried the tea yet, trying to allow the tea to cool off a bit. While I was making more of this tea, I took a moment to see what I thought of this tea.
Unfortunately, this tea wasn’t my favorite of the teas I have tried from Treehouse Teas. Even with my jasmine addiction, something just didn’t hit the right note for me. I enjoyed the green tea and the grassy like components it brought to each sip but the jasmine to me almost had a sour note that I can’t really put my finger on.
Regardless, one of the twins adored this tea and drank a few more cups of it. I’d like to try this one as a cold brew next to see if I can get that lovely jasmine flavor to come out more on a happy note than the sad note. To be fair, the tea could have tasted off because I do have issues with a sinus infection right now. Either way, I’d love to try this one again to get that flavor I adore to come out in the fore front.
Liu An Gua Pian Green Tea from Teavivre
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Teavivre
Tea Description:
A great find for those looking for a more green tea with more character! Like several of our other teas, Liu’an Guapian is deservedly in the list of China’s top ten teas. Made only from larger, mature leaves that are rolled up during processing, the dry leaves have a distinctively plump shape to them – giving rise to its Chinese name of “melon seeds”. Very uncharacteristic for a green tea, it has a quite sweet taste and strong aroma, that is also overlaid with an almost smoky, spicy tang.
From Qiyun Mountain(齐云山), Liu’an, Anhui province
Harvest Time: April 2, 2013
Round shaped, vibrant leaves without any bud or stems
Produces a bright emerald coloured tea
A distinctive taste – sweet with a rich, slightly spicy taste
Low caffeine (less than 10% of a cup of coffee)
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
Liu An Gua Pian Green Tea from Teavivre has the mouth watering aroma of milk and honey. When I opened the dry leaf packet I let out an audible ahhhhhh. When I steeped it the moist leaf let off that sticky sweet smell of milk and honey and I was in love. The beautiful hand rolled leaf look like tiny unicorn horns. Yes this tea is what dreams are made of!
The flavor of this tea is like none other. Seriously this is not your average green tea! Yes there is a note of vegetation and unlike my SororiTea Sister I do get a bit of a grassy note, but it is so much more complex than that and I am in agreement with my SororiTea Sister Anne, that it is a stellar green tea to covet! Like her, I think my new favorite.
I too get that kick of a spicy note and a deep earthiness for a green. Something like peat moss perhaps. This is easily a tea that I could get all flowery with the words about but rather I want to just sit back and relax into this sublime cup. It is sweet, a tiny bit tangy and tart, a kick of spicy, a whole lot of grounding earthiness, vegetal, subtly grassy, with a touch of fruit flavor very much like that of a melon yet I also detect something perhaps like lychee with a light floral undertone to it.
Regardless of what verbiage I could use to persuade you to try this tea, I will restrain myself, if you don’t buy it then that just means more for me, and for my SoroitTea Sister Anne too I suppose. Seriously if you are not a fan of green tea you must try this. You will be changed for life. If you do enjoy green tea, you have to experience this one, and if you are a green tea lover you simply can NOT be without this in your stash!
