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Fan-tas-tic. Such a great tasting tea!

6:28pm – I need a nice burly cuppa to get over my day. Sadly my schooling left me very sleep deprived and I need a boost o’ caffeine.

I drank a mug of this around 6 or 7 am as I finished up some rather intense schoolwork. Didn’t really solve my problems, but at least I had fun drinking it!

Instructions were a little vague on the side of the canister; the other blooms I’ve had instructed the explicit use of boiling water to make the tea, but this particular bloom was a white tea. So to be safe, I used sub-boiling water and steep for about 3 minutes. As I hoped, the blossom fanned out with time, but unfortunately, the flower within appeared withered and damaged, and didn’t spread out as nicely as I hoped. The tea itself was lighter than most of the non-black teas I’ve consumed lately, and had a slightly vegetative taste to it, almost like a green tea. Peach flavoring tasted a bit artificial though. 3/5

I actually drank 2 14oz. mugga this yesterday. I was skeptical when I bought this, as it said “full leaf” on the package. When I opened the package and saw the mesh bags, I was relieved to see that to an extent, this was true. Most of the leaves within were broken, but not terribly shredded. The tea was dark than I expected, but tastes refreshingly light as a white tea should. I didn’t try for a resteep, but based on the size of the leaves, I think it’s reasonable to wager that these bags could handle at lease one. 4/5

Definitely top 3 favorite beverages. I dunno if it’s a natural trait of rooibos, but it has a naturally sweet quality to it while I drink it. I had a similar observation drinking some rooibos from Starbucks, so I’m wondering what makes it have such a sweet quality to it. In the past I’ve thrown in Splenda and some milk into this stuff, which makes it taste even better, but I really enjoy it plain too. On a scale of 1 to 10, this stuff gets a 26. It would’ve gotten 27, but it loses a point for tasting a bit weak on a 5 minute steep. I shouldn’t have to wait 6-7 minutes for such splendor! 5/5

Definitely took a shining to this stuff. Got another resteep out of the first cup, and I was fine for about an hour, then I had to go back in and make another 2 cups. How is this tea so tasty?! It’s almost not fair for other teas, because it’s so choice.

As far as damn fine teas go, this tea is in fact damn fine. Probably not an everyday tea, just to enhance its enjoyment.

This was served to me with a rather large teabag, one of those mesh numbers that have a lot of room to allow proper infusing. I wasn’t expecting this to taste as it did, with a solid vanilla flavor along with some notes of cinnamon and I think I even got some apple in there. Or maybe I was just looking for the apple flavor when I got the cinnamon. Hard to say… Nevertheless, I found that it had a kind of sweetened taste to it despite having nothing added in. Anyone who sees this on the menu at their local Starbucks would be doing themselves a favor to try this out when they got the time.

Seems to me that the second cup is stronger, perhaps due to the longer steeping time as recommended on the site. Tasty as to be expected though.