A lovely light tea, fairly typical of a white tea. I’ve never had a tea with peony in it before, so I was expecting this to taste overwhelmingly floral. Thankfully the floral aspect is equally delicate and complimentary to the white tea, rather than competing with it. There’s also a lovely subtle sweetness to this.
I bought only a single serving packet of this and in the future I’d buy another sample of it from time to time, but I don’t think it’s one that I’d need to get in full size. It’s good, but it doesn’t jump out at me as a “buy me now” kind of tea. The bonus is that this tea comes with a built-in conversation starter…how to correctly pronounce “peony”. I say “pee-ownee”, my Dad says pee-eny…I suspect we’re both wrong
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Jumping in with useless information! The dictionary correct pronunciation of peony is ‘PEE-uh-nee’. Pee-OH-nee is a Southern US regional pronunciation, and from there I’m sure there are plenty of other regional pronunciations (to our north and what have you) that I’m not familiar with :)
I love useless information :D it’s right up my alley!
I believe that White Peony tea, also known as Bai Mu Dan, is just the name of an unflavored Chinese white tea. It doesn’t actually have peony flowers or flavoring in it. It tastes like hay and sunshine to me. :)
Thanks CHAroma. Clearly I didn’t read the ingredients – whoops!
LOL! No worries. I recall I first wanted to try it because I thought it had peonies in it too. ;)
Jumping in with useless information! The dictionary correct pronunciation of peony is ‘PEE-uh-nee’. Pee-OH-nee is a Southern US regional pronunciation, and from there I’m sure there are plenty of other regional pronunciations (to our north and what have you) that I’m not familiar with :)
I love useless information :D it’s right up my alley!
I believe that White Peony tea, also known as Bai Mu Dan, is just the name of an unflavored Chinese white tea. It doesn’t actually have peony flowers or flavoring in it. It tastes like hay and sunshine to me. :)
Thanks CHAroma. Clearly I didn’t read the ingredients – whoops!
LOL! No worries. I recall I first wanted to try it because I thought it had peonies in it too. ;)