Green Tea
Tea Forté Friday – Jasmine Green
Name: Jasmine Green Company: Tea Forté Type: Green Cost: $24 for 20 infusers, $15 for 35 serving canister Tea Notes: Steeped in water that was 175 degrees for 3 minutes. Dry tea leaves in the infuser are a nice size. They do not appear to be severly broken. Aroma of liquor is obviously jasmine. Taste [...]
DAVIDsTEA – Apple Cinnamon
Name of Tea: Apple Cinnamon Company: DAVIDsTEA Type: Black, Green, loose Cost: $6.50 for 50g Tea Notes: Dry leaves are a brownish black along with green leaves mixed in. There are also apple and almond bits throughout. I prepared this using boiling water, 1 tsp of leaves for every cup of water, and a steep [...]
Adagio – Dragonwell
Name of Tea: Dragonwell Company: Adagio Type: Green, loose Cost: $19.00 for 4oz Tea Notes: Appearance of the dry leaves are flat and thin. They are a muted sage green with some darker jade green colors but none of them are bold in the depth of color. I prepared this using 1 teaspoon of leaves [...]
Teavana – Gyokuro Imperial
Name: Gyokuro Imperial Company: Teavana Type: Green, loose Cost: $15.00 for 2oz Gyokuro green tea is the type of green tea that is right up my alley. Too bad their expensive nature doesn’t allow me to make them a mainstay in my tea collection right now. No matter, I drink them when I can and [...]
Lupicia – Fukamushi Sencha Matsuri
Name: Fukamushi Sencha Matsuri Company: Lupicia Type: Green, loose Cost: $7 for 1.76oz Lupicia’s website describes this as a “distinctively mellow and full-bodied green tea”. Sounds nice. When I opened the sample pack of tea, the first thing I noticed was how incredibly dusty this tea was. It seemed like some of the full leaf [...]
Mighty Leaf – Green Tea Tropical
Name: Green Tea Tropical Company: Mighty Leaf Type: Green Cost: $9.95 for 15 tea pouches Mighty Leaf’s Green Tea Tropical comes in a lovely silken tea pouch and smells divine. The ingredients in this tea are Green tea, banana, strawberry, pineapple, guava, and exotic fruit flavors with red, white and blue cornflowers, and pineapple pieces. [...]
Den’s Tea Genmaicha
Name: Genmaicha Extra Green Company: Den’s Tea Type: Green Cost: $4.25 for 2oz Two things make rainy, gloomy days better. Candles and tea. On this gray day I turned to Den’s Tea Genmaicha Extra Green. I have been enjoying this tea for a quite a while and it is truly one of my favorites. My [...]
Adagio Gyokuro
Name: Gyokuro Company: Adagio Type: Green, loose Cost: $39 for 5oz This tea fascinates me. Gyokuro is in many people’s opinion the finest Japanese green tea. It also seems to be the costliest. What makes this type of tea so unique is it is grown underneath the shade instead of in the sun. The name [...]
Red Leaf Tea Green Harmony
Name: Green Harmony Company: Red Leaf Type: Green, loose Cost: $9.99 for 3.2 oz I’m going to start by saying that this is not your typical green tea. My first sip of it was a huge surprise to my taste buds. Red Leaf’s site gives an indication that there are herbs used in this tea [...]
Rishi Jade Cloud
Name: Jade Cloud Company: Rishi Type: Green, loose leaf Cost: $9.75 for 1/4 lb Jade Cloud…what a lovely name for a tea! Rishi’s website says that this tea is “a special grade of Chinese tea produced in the high elevation tea gardens of western Hubei, China.” They go on to say that each year they [...]
