Okay. I have now tried this at work with purified water. It makes a difference for the better. Either that or my mouth is reset from “smoke default” finally. :)
I could smell the peach and the blueberry very strongly and the peach flavor was absolutely noticeable. The jasmine not so much, but that’s okay. Shang’s are still the only whites that I notice having a flavor of their own as a white tea so I still can’t really speak to that. :) The longer this one stays in the pot, the more bitter it gets, though. In a way that kind of defeats the beauty of the flowering tea – having to remove the tea before finishing the pot.
I was going to serve this on each of 3 tables for my mother’s upcoming surprise 65th birthday tea party but I have now discovered a teapot that keeps the flower on the bottom and I only have one of them. And no need to buy 2 more. That’s not saying that I won’t and then try to sell them to guests after the party… :) It is an upside down teardrop shape. It worked really well and it has a strainer in the spout already!!
This is also one of the only flowering teas I’ve had that I can clearly see the separate flowers and the tiny white flowers actually floated out above the pink one. Just lovely!
