Blooming Tea Review – Hear It Direct From The Taster!

Posted under Blooming Tea by Jenna

Review: Teavana Strawberry Misaki Blooming Tea

Both Teavana and blooming tea tend to be a bit on the high side on the price scale, so I assumed these would be rather pricey. At first glance they seem to be, yet the website says you get 8-10 blooms for the two-ounce cost, so they’re rather set in the realm of reasonable if the taste holds up.

I put one bloom in my 24-ounce clear teapot with 180° water for three minutes. The tea is mild yet flavourful, smooth, and rather tasty. Unfortunately, the flavouring itself doesn’t taste very much like real strawberries, and it is hard to taste the base tea. Actually, I find it basically impossible to pick out. The cup has an overall tea-like taste, but I can’t separate any white tea flavour from the strawberry. When I really thought about it, this flowering tea or blooming tea is delicious but doesn’t feel very quality.

My second steep is 3.5 minutes and produces a milder and similar cup. The phrase that comes to mind is “extremely drinkable.” It goes down smoothly. It settles easily into my stomach. I could see myself downing cup after cup of this either hot or iced without thought. It’s an easy-to-drink tea. I wouldn’t recommend this as an especially exquisite flavoured white or even a great example of how to flavour a tea without drowning it, but I’d buy it and drink it happily enough.

by Katie

by Nicole

I have to admit that the name of this tea intimidated me quite a bit. I had to save it for a day when I was feeling brave enough. This tea is compressed into little concave cakes that are individually wrapped in tissue. I brewed this tea in a porcelain gaiwan with 212 degree water using 30 second steepings. The liquor was incredibly dark and almost murky from the very start. I hit my limit after four infusions but this tea definitely could have kept going.

Luckily for me there wasn’t much to worry about. This was actually a very enjoyable tea. It was strong but sweet, reminding me of a good Irish breakfast. The end of each sip had a slight astringency that added a nice bit of interest. Oddly enough I can see where the image of a camel’s breath comes to mind. I used to work at a barn and this tea had a pleasant grassy quality to it that reminds me of horses. I guess a camel wouldn’t be such a stretch. If Chicago Tea Garden keeps this up I may just wind up being a pu-erh convert yet. I would definitely recommend this tea.

Review: Tea Needs Inspiration Blooming Tea

by Chelsy

Chinese green tea, jasmine and lily flower are woven together in a beautiful blooming tea that opens up like a mussel to reveal a flowery pearl from within. Of course, a grand display of blooming tea is appreciated in a bloom. There is a well rounded vegetal primary tone that is quickly, but not initially, partnered with a sweetness, perhaps from the lily.

The flowery astringency of lily and the cool and clean cut taste that it packs are very well balanced by the sweetness and sultry allure of jasmine petals. The smell does not quite hold resemblance, at first, to the tea’s saccharine tones that mingle and separate, and then join together again. This tea is a bit more than a simple bloomer, it is a choreographed exchange between flavours and presentation. The whole thing is really quite majestic, so much so that I find it difficult to remark upon. It is really worth a try, because the experience is a bit dreamy. Or perhaps the best word is Inspiring, since that is the name given to the bloom. A sweet dance between two opposite flowers, its like they are fighting and make amends in the cup once they are poured. A very strange and peculiar description, but it simply must be experimented upon on an individual tea drinker basis.

Courtesy of www.teaviews.com

Tags: Blooming Tea, Flowering Tea, Flowers Tea, misaking blooming tea, Pu-erh Toucha, Teavana, Teavana Strawberry Misaki Blooming Tea