Morgantau Green Tea from Tealicious Tea Company

Tea Information:

Leaf Type:  Green

Where to Buy:  Tealicious Tea Company

Tea Description:

A blend of high grade green Sencha tea, rose petals, beautiful blue cornflowers and brightly colored yellow sunflowers. This offers a refreshing and smooth flavor that awakens your taste buds.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

Spring is here!  Signs of spring are all around me, from the beautiful pink plumage of the trees that line the streets in my neighborhood, to the promenade of the proud robins hopping around the lawns, to the bright yellow daffodils that pop up in random patches along the roadsides.

This tea seems a perfect choice to sip when contemplating the magic of spring.  It is a gorgeous tea, not only to the eye with its colorful petals and lush, green tea leaves; but it is also lovely to the nose and the palate as well.  The aroma is so incredibly beautiful, with hints of fresh grass and the air that sweeps over rose blossoms in the spring. That divine fragrance filled the kitchen as this tea brewed, and the brewed tea – while its bouquet is quite a bit softer than the dry leaf – it still holds on to hints of that flowery, fresh scent.

The tea tastes very much the way the aroma led me to believe:  it tastes fresh and lively, with delightful floral touches.  It isn’t an overwhelmingly flowery tasting tea, though.  The rose is the strongest of the floral tones, and it is more like a whisper of rose flavor rather than a powerful rose taste that you might experience from a rose scented tea (a rose congou, for example).  Here, the floral notes are much more delicate, but I like the way they enhance the overall cup.

The green tea is a very bright, refreshing tea with floral notes of its own, which are highlighted by the presence of the flower petals in this blend.  There are vegetal notes and a buttery undertone.  There is some astringency to this, but not much.  It’s more like a slightly dry feel to the tongue in the aftertaste, followed by a lingering floral note.

A lovely tea to enjoy these early days of spring … or any time of year for that matter!

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