Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Description:
Jasmine Pearl Green Tea leaves are handpicked and rolled into a pearl-like shape and scented with jasmine flowers. When infused, the jasmine pearl unfurls slowly like a flower in bloom. The Jasmine Pearl Tea has a powerful, sweet, and floral aroma with an audacious and brisk flavor making it the perfect selection to be served hot or chilled.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I do love a good Jasmine Pearl, and this one is definitely a good one!
The beautiful, tightly wound pearls unfurl slowly as they release their flavor and fragrance. The aroma is beautifully jasmine, evoking thoughts of sitting out in a garden as the breeze wafts through jasmine vines to deliver the sweet, exotic scent. It’s wonderful imagery to enjoy on this wet and chilly fall evening!
The flavor is just as nice as the aroma. It has notes of vegetation, but, it tastes more of fresh, vibrant leafy greens (think of a fresh, very mild baby spinach), rather than what I’d call grassy. This vegetal note melds quite beautifully with the light, refreshing note of jasmine.
I like that the jasmine here is strong enough to be enjoyed without coming off as soapy. It is a soft type of flavor and fragrance, not sharp or artificial.
A very enjoyable experience from Nature’s Tea Leaf.
Fruit Fusion Green Tea from Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green Tea
Where to Buy: Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Description:
Fruit Fusion Green Tea is a harmonious fusion of Eastern and Western flavors. This tea has a tart, fresh aroma with a zesty and fruity flavor that cools and refreshes your body. Our Fruit Fusion Green Tea combines a quality Sencha green tea with genuine dried pieces of Rosehip, Hibiscus (a Chinese flower and natural source of many vitamins including C, A, and D), and orange peel. The Sencha tea leaves are loose, green tea leaves with a flat, smooth, and narrow body. When infused, the tea has a sweet and sour aroma. A refreshing drink that can be enjoyed hot or cold.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I had my doubts about this tea. After all, I’m not fond of hibiscus, and I have often let that be known here on this blog. It seems like it’s in nearly every tisane out there … why, oh why does it need to also be added to Camellia Sinensis? I mean, yeah, I get it … I know it’s loaded with vitamins and offers a realistic berry-like taste when it’s infused. But it also can be rather tart and when left to brew too long, it becomes syrupy. Fortunately, since it has been blended with a green tea here, that isn’t a problem, as I rarely brew my green teas for longer than 2 minutes. But the tartness. I’m doubtful, but I’ve got my fingers crossed. Here’s hoping!
OK, so this is pretty darned good! The hibiscus did not go all “hibiscus-y” on me and turn this into a syrupy, tarty tasting tea. I taste the lovely, sweet flavor of the Sencha, which is slightly creamy, almost buttery, and smooth. I taste the bright, vibrant flavor of the orange, and I do taste the hibiscus. It tastes tart and tangy, but, it doesn’t overwhelm it.
It’s got kind of a sweet-and-sour kind of thing going on, and I like the contrast. The sip starts off sweet, with a bright, citrus-y tone and sweet green tea taste. Toward mid-sip, the flavor shifts to a slightly tart taste, which develops and becomes more tart toward the tail and then carries through to the aftertaste.
It’s a very lively, enjoyable tea. Especially nice as it cools – would make a great iced tea!
Citrus Spice White Iced Tea from Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: White
Where to Buy: Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Description:
Citrus Spice White Iced Tea is an exclusive iced tea blend that combines choice White Peony tea with real pieces of spicy ginger, zesty lemon and fragrant rosemary herbs. Our specially blended iced tea allows the brightness and tanginess of the lemon to soften the distinctive piquant bite of the ginger while allowing the aromatic essence of natural rosemary to shine through. This perfect balance of sweet, spicy, citrus and savory is a taste sensation you will want to experience again and again by the glass or by the pitcher.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I hot-brewed this and allowed the tea to cool to room temperature before chilling it, but I admit to taking a quick sip or two of it while it was still hot to see how I liked it served hot. And while I did enjoy this as a hot tea, I agree with Nature’s Tea Leaf: this tea excels as an Iced Tea!
And yet, this is quite unlike any iced tea I’ve ever tasted … and I mean that in a very good way. That is not meant to slight any tea that I might have tasted in the past, only to say that this is so refreshingly DIFFERENT.
The white tea offers a soft, creamy undertone to the bright, sunny citrus tones and the SAVORY spices. Yes, that’s right, I said savory. This is not a chai … which is immediately what I think when I see “spice tea” … and that is what makes it so different. The ginger tastes zesty and peppery, but it lacks a certain heat that you might ordinarily experience with ginger because it doesn’t have other exotic spices like cinnamon, cloves or cardamom to enhance the spicy-heat of the ginger. Instead, the ginger tastes a bit more mellow – peppery, yes, but without the heat.
The rosemary is what allows these flavors to translate into a more savory kind of taste. The rosemary enhances the citrus-y tones while bringing in a delicate pine-like taste (and aroma!) to the cup. So the tea does indeed have an exotic kind of taste to it, but, not a spicy-hot-chai kind of exotic. Instead, it is more of a balanced taste with its bright citrus notes, sweet white tea, warmly spiced ginger and savory rosemary.
This is not only wonderful because it is so different, but it also gets BONUS POINTS for being incredibly soothing. With winter time right around the corner and with it comes the cold-and-flu season, this is the kind of tea that you want to have on hand when you’re feeling a touch under the weather.
Very refreshing … deliciously different. I like this very much! OH… and it tastes great cold-brewed too!
Cinnamon Oolong from Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Oolong
Where to Buy: Nature’s Tea Leaf
Tea Description:
Cinnamon Oolong Tea is an exclusive blend of select Oolong leaves with natural cinnamon bark. Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees native to the island of Sri Lanka and South East Asia that dates as far back as 2000 B.C. Normally used in sweet and savory cooking, cinnamon is lauded for its ability to aid in the reduction of blood sugar and cholesterol levels while boosting metabolism. Oolong is a medium level caffeinated green tea full of antioxidants and has a light floral aroma and long lasting finish. The combination of the sweet & spicy aromatic cinnamon with the mild floral Oolong makes for a delicious and refreshing drink that can be enjoyed both hot and chilled.
8 oz of water
2 tsps of leaves
Steep 195 degrees at 3 Min
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
At first I was not too sure about this oolong. I am by far a person who really wants her tea to go KAPOW, and this is a very subtle tea even for a tea flavored with cinnamon! So if the idea of cinnamon in this tea scares you please don’t shy away from it! The cinnamon, even though taking a nice presence in the dry form, is not excessively strong.
The packaging of the tea is eye pleasing, quite pretty, and the tea itself is stunning with huge pieces of long cinnamon bark, along with some smaller pieces through out. The oolong tea itself also has a pleasing appearance, and in my opinion even prettier than as in the picture provided here!
I almost missed the steeping instructions provided right on the front of the packaging because it is obscured by cute little pictures of the leaf, a kettle, thermometer, measuring spoon, and timer. I had to laugh at myself, while thinking “why yes you DO need to draw me a picture and I will still miss it!”
At first I was skeptical about an oolong cinnamon mix but alas I am finding I am starting to develop a fondness for this tea. A departure from the norm for sure!
On the initial sip my first thought was of course cinnamon but I was not taken aback by an overly strong cinnamon flavor. However, I was thinking “but where is the oolong?” and just when I was about to start getting crabby and beginning to think that this was not going to be pleasing it hit me like a stealth ninja in the dark …. OOLONG!
Yes, on the after taste was this amazing, buttery, creamy, oolong flavor I so adore! Not only did it sneak up on me but it stayed with me lingering on my taste buds for a good minute until I was ready to take my next sip. So just as I was done processing my thoughts from “where is it” to “omg there it is” and realizing I had nothing to pout about, the flavor dissipated and I was grabbing my tea cup for that next sip!
So with that I will kindly and playfully call this the Ninja Tea.
Its so unassuming too with its cheerful light golden hue like a ray of sunshine no one would think it packs such a KAPOW at the end! What a lovely balanced tea a cinnamon that knows its place and an oolong that knows when to show up for the party!
Yes, Nature’s Tea Leaf won me over with this one and I look forward to trying more of their prettily packaged teas! Sometimes I get too cynical thinking that if something looks too good it must be making up for something it is lacking on the interior. I have been proven wrong this time around!
