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“Thank you Lala! One of the wonderful teas i got in my swaps today that I had to try asap because it’s an “exclusive to chapters” for mother’s day so I needed to know if i had to get my other half...” Read full tasting note
“Sipdown! 853… Yes, you read that right. I’ve tallied up everything now and am officially over 850 :( Here’s hoping I can make short work of that… July 1 goal: 750. Anyhow! Thanks to Sil for giving...” Read full tasting note
“Another Sipdown, & although the dry tea smells wonderful, I don’t really find the cup of tea particularly interesting. Plus, there is a weird after taste. Oh well, you can’t love them all I...” Read full tasting note
“Thanks to Indigobloom for the sample here. I’ve been trying to rev up my immune system and have been drinking a lot of herbs. I wanted to try this for a change of place, sounded lovely. It’s odd I...” Read full tasting note
A beautiful blend of white tea infused with the natural sweetness of peach and finished with a vanilla top note.
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March Sipdown Madness
This is the last pairing of the first “tier” of my tournament – matched with W2T’s Little Red! The month is getting closer and closer to finishing though, so I really need to step up getting through these tournament match ups!
I like this tea a lot – that’s evident from my ‘91’ rating. I also like Little Red a lot too though, so I was mentally going back and forth on which I thought would win. This blend just seems like such an excellent representation of the craft of blending though; it’s really well balanced with the peach, cream, and white tea all feeling represented. The skill to that is how flavourful those notes are while not feeling bogged down or covering up a more delicate and gentle white tea base. Plus, both the peach and the cream used in this blend have insanely distinct flavours that really ride the line between sweet and artificial interpretations of “the real thing” versus actually mirroring the taste of ripe peach and fresh cream…
Ultimately I chose this as the winner – the craft/skill and final product were just too good.
Thanks to Lala for the huge amount of samples from our swap back in March. I have enough of this tea alone for at least 5 cups, and that’s not counting resteeps! Thank you, Lala!!
The dry leaf aroma is all peachy goodness. The brewed tea aroma is peaches with something more. The flavor is a delicate balance of peaches, cream, and white tea. This is delicious! I’m so impressed with how delicately the flavors are balanced. They seem to romp back and forth, exchanging positions for prominence.
Gosh, I love tea. I hope my child likes tea too. It’d be fun to share that together. I love that my husband has become more interested in tea over the past year or so. It still amazes me that two people can drink the exact same cup of tea and, even preferences aside, taste different things in it.
Well for me, this is a great tea! It delivers on the cream element more than any other tea by that name that I’ve tried. It has no bitterness nor astringency. There’s a subtle sweetness apparent, the way fruit is naturally sweet. Total yum factor! I will enjoy every cup.
ETA: Hmm, I can’t find this on the Sloane website. Was it a limited edition tea or something?
Flavors: Cream, Peach
This one was very good. I didn’t think it was limited edition, but I bought mine thru Indigo/Chapters.
it was a seasonal blend :)
I’m not real familiar with Sloane. They don’t seem to have very many teas available on their website. Are seasonal blends their thing? Or do they primarily use other retailers for distribution?
sloane = toronto company = what i’d call average teas for way expensive. i tend to only pick them u when they have their random sales around christmas when i can get them for 50% off. otherwise i find them generally overpriced for what you get
Hmm, looks like I haven’t reviewed this tea yet! I will make it short, as I am at work and it is fairly busy, but I made a cup of this for the morning, not the first cup of this tea I’ve had either lol. In a nutshell, it smells rather tasty, steeps to a orangey yellow color, smells peachy and creamy steeped, but has a bit of an artificial flavor to it unfortunately. The artificial cream note is why I don’t really drink this tea that often. A shame, as it smells so good, but just doesn’t taste quite as good. It’s a very spring/summer-esque tea though, so I might have a few more cups of it as the seasons progress. Not too bad this morning!
TTBC2 #18
Hmmm… While this is not the most tantalizing tea I’ve had, or not even one of the better white teas I have had, the peach flavoring here is really intriguing.
I have a very weird relationship with peach flavored teas. They often make me think of Lipton iced tea :P But once in a while, the flavoring can be put off nicely. The best example is probably Lupicia’s Momo blends. but I do like the peach in this. I am not sure about the “cream” part.. I guess the creamy notes are there, but barely.
Unfortunately, the white tea here is not spectacular and seems to be full of these notorious “sweatcloth” notes that just sit on your palate. Perhaps I brewed this tea for a bit too long. I would love to try it again some time. The version from the Traveling Box was in a sachet, I wonder if they offer any loose leaf.
sloane does have loose leaf, though this one they weren’t sure if they were going to be offering that way.
It doesn’t seem like they offer this one as loose leaf. They also seem to be sold out of it right now anyway. Oh, and their prices don’t sit well with me :D So I am glad I got to try one of their teas through the traveling box!
they’re pretty expensive imo, and not really worth it when compared to other places…
Yeah, it sure seems that way!
i picked up a bunch of their teas at a 50% off sale…and that’s the most i’d pay for them. to each their own i guess but i’ve had better from companies that charged less.
they seem way over priced
Great Canadian TTB and sipdown!! (162)
I actually sent the box off this morning but in the interest of saving time, I pulled out a few of the teabags to try later. This one is something I really wanted to try and thanks to the wonderful Sil, I got that chance. However, I built this up in my mind (I blame the pretty tin for that :P) as an amazingly delicious peaches and cream cup. In reality, this is really rather odd. I get the cream and the base is present but something about the peach flavor is really quite off.
I’m such a sucker for a pretty tin!
Haha if it looks nice, you expect the taste to follow suit. Alas, that doesn’t always happen such as with this tea.
Also, random observation but steepster notified me that you commented on “VariaTea’s” tasting note as opposed to saying someone commented on “your” tasting note.
Sometimes I don’t even care what the tea tastes like, I just want the tin!
That is strange about the notification. For a couple months now I haven’t been able to view my messages on Steepster without opening the link in another tab. If I don’t it either crashes the browser or times out.
