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Time to get back into sipping these Chroma teas!

This one is quite nice, it’s so very light and airy and perfect for a little bit of afternoon serenity. The white base is delicious – light and crisp with a grassy tinge and lovely refreshing cucumbery notes. The spearmint and coriander up the refreshment factor a bit, though neither is terribly strong. And the mint also adds sweetness which contrasts nicely with the slight fruity tartness that the goji and hibiscus bring. I’m not getting any cardamom in this cup, but it does tend to meld in with the spearmint.

I’m not sure I’d reorder this one, just because it’s a bit situational for me and not a tea I would drink often. Plus I feel like the white tea itself is mostly what makes it for me, so maybe it would make more sense to just order that. But still, I enjoyed this pouch!

Very smooth and round feeling liquor that encompasses the entire palate – this quality makes a lot of sense given the presence of licorice root in the blend, which is a demulcent. The taste is surprisingly more “lush” to me than I expected it to be, with the sweet and cooling taste of spearmint leading the sip followed by much, much softer fruity notes from a mix of the hibiscus and berries in the blend. This is a flavouring free blend and the berries add very little flavour, but there’s enough of them you get a faint hint of that taste.

It was surprisingly complex, and I enjoyed it more than expected. This isn’t the first spearmint white tea I’ve come across that I’ve enjoyed a lot, so maybe there’s something about that combo of ingredients in particular that speaks to me.

Just discovered Verdant has spun off a sister company called Chroma devoted to blends. What’s exciting is many of the retired Verdant blends are now available again under the Chroma label. I picked this up along with their famous Chocolate Laoshan Genmaicha as this blend, which includes amongst other things rose, cardamom, strawberry, goji berry, peppermint, and coriander, sounded very intriguing.

The tea brews up a nice faint pink, thanks to the hibiscus in the blend, and later deepens to crimson-amber as it continues steeping. First sip tastes medicinal and woodsy. The white tea base and peppermint are the dominant flavors and the latter eventually overwhelms as is often the case when peppermint is involved. A punch of cilantro hits you in the finish. I didn’t taste the strawberry, rose, and other tea ingredients as the mint made everything taste like tea tree/eucalyptus.