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The dry leaves have a great aroma, and you get a similar scent from the first steeping – but the taste really lets things down and is a lot less flavourful. Not terrible, but I was really hoping for a bit more from this tea.

A comforting drink for a sore throat.

I’ve been drinking this throughout the weekend. Still a fabulous tea, and great for the first three steepings. The flavour really starts to taper off on the fourth steeping. I could probably coax a few more brews out of it given time and testing to get the right steeping time for each successive brew – but it’s easier just to get some fresh leaves!

I was sent a sample of this recently, so when I couldn’t find the tea I was intending to have today (that’s been put in the wrong place somewhere in the tea mountain in my kitchen cupboard g) I thought I’d try this. It’s… really not bad for a tea bag tea. Interesting aroma with more than a hint of licorice about it, and the flavour is okay. I won’t be throwing over teas.com.au’s Feisty Jade in favour of this anytime soon, but it’s certainly drinkable.

Still my favourite tea. Mmm.

From the look of the leaves, I thought this was going to be one of those typical red fruit teas, but it’s actually turned out to be primarily a green tea. It brews up to a warm shade of yellow typical of a green tea. The fruit/floral highlights are clearly present in the taste, but they’re nicely balanced and don’t take over. I like this more than I expected to. Will have it again!

I got it just exactly right this time: brew was sweet and grassy and perfect. 1.5 teaspoons per cup, steeped for 45 seconds in water at 73C.

A good, spicy warming tea for a chilly winter’s night. Brrr.

This is one of my staple Chinese greens. It’s very smooth and a little grassy to taste, but not as much as a Japanese green.

I loved this the first time I tried it and it’s now one of my staples. Very smooth and with a delicate sweetness courtesy of the osmanthus flowers. First steeping is very good, second steeping’s the best, but by the third steeping the flavour’s really starting to drop off so I mostly don’t do more than two.