Tropical Sunset

From a looonnggg ago teabox.  Time to steep this up.. I have had their apple tea that I surprisingly enjoyed and this is also similar!  The hugest green tea leaves I have ever seen with an old-yet-still-present tropical fruit flavor.  I would say it mostly tastes like starfruit, which is interesting, on the green base which makes itself known but isn’t bitey.  Though the ingredient list says it should be papaya and mango… I say NOPE IT’S STARFRUIT.  I really like it.   I’m glad I nabbed this from that teabox…
Steep #1 // 40 minutes after boiling // 1 minute steep
Steep #2 // 27 minutes after boiling // 2 min
2022 sipdowns: 2 (Fusion – Peach Apricot Honeybush)

This is another tea from the Discovery Teabox (thanks to Skysamurai for coordinating and all who contributed!) I think I ran into LST (Love Some Tea) at the San Francisco International Tea Festival 2018, but considering I have a hard time remembering what I did last week let alone something from two years ago, I have no idea if this was one of the teas they had out for sample that day. Anyway, it was in this teabox, so I took a 2.5g sample to try. I prepared it cold brew style, letting it steep overnight in 350ml of water.

This tea is listed as a blend of black and green leaf, with lots of flower petals and dried mango and papaya with some natural flavorings. My sample, I’ll note, is only tea leaf, with no petals or dried fruit (maybe what was left in the bag?) I also don’t know the age of the sample… my brew is a light yellow color, and has a very faint sweet honeysuckle-esque aroma. The flavor tastes mostly like a crisp green tea — like sweet grass, with some subtle honey notes. I am not getting any fruit notes at all, and only a subtle florality that mostly reads as a bit of sweetness. I think this is mostly due to the selection/age of my sample more than the tea itself, though. It still made for a refreshing iced tea, based just on the tea leaf without the additives or flavorings.

I’m going to leave this unrated since I feel I didn’t get a fair representation of this one, but I appreciate the chance to try it all the same.

From the tea box! The green is pretty mild with a tiny bit of bitterness. The fruit flavor is pretty light as well. I taste maybe papaya or mango. So if you like light fruity greens, this is a tea you would enjoy. They’re not my absolute favorite, but I’m still enjoying this one.

First and foremost, thank you to Love Some Tea for sending me a generous amount of free samples to review.

The green tea leaves are very high quality, and you can taste it. I coldbrewed half a sample pouch 10 minutes (after 20 minutes it gets bitter, aim for 10-15 minutes) in cold water and am now drinking a wonderfully fragrant, fruity green tea that tastes like passion fruits. I can taste some hints of mango, apricot, papaya, and some indistinct floral notes. I really appreciate the green in the base. I’m not a green tea person, but I find this one very drinkable, although can become bitter on longer steeps.

I would recommend this brewed hot or cold, although I really like it iced.