Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Herbal Tisane
Where to Buy: Jennifer’s Tea Garden
Product Description:
Relax the mind, body and soul with this blend of soothing botanicals. Chamomile, St. John’s Wort and Ginko help to relieve the stress and tension of daily life while lifting your spirits. Naturally Caffeine Free.
Ingredients: mistletoe, bean peels, chamomile, organic honeybush, organic lemon myrtle, St. John’s Wort, lemongrass, gingko, anise, nettle, birch leaves, natural flavors, stevia leaf.
Taster’s Review:
Wow! This tastes really good!
I really wasn’t expecting it to taste so good. A quick glance at the list of ingredients told me that this would be an herbal blend, and my mind immediately envisioned a medicinal tasting liquid. But, this really doesn’t taste medicinal at all. It doesn’t even taste like a typical herbal blend. It tastes sweet and fruity and could make just as nice a dessert tea as it would a tisane to promote relaxation.
Back in my tea blending days, I created an herbal relaxation blend, and if I am to be honest … even it didn’t taste this good. Sure, I enjoyed the flavor of my own creation, and up until now, it had been the best relaxation blend I had tasted. But this one is even better.
The flavor is sweet, fruit-like (it tastes like apricots to me) and there is almost a creamy vanilla-y taste in the background. I don’t taste a strong presence from the chamomile. The lemongrass and lemon myrtle offer soft citrus tones that compliment the apricot notes that I’m tasting. The anise provides a sweet, licorice-like tone that isn’t sharp like I usually find anise to be. This tastes subtle and sweet. I’m not even getting that disagreeable taste from the stevia!
This is HANDS DOWN the best relaxation tisane I’ve yet to encounter.
Gunpowder Mint Tea from Jennifer’s Tea Garden
Tea Type:
Green Tea/White Tea Blend
Where To Buy:
Jennifer’s Tea Garden
Product Description:
Gunpowder Mint
Type: Green Tea
Caffeine: Low
Flavor / Aroma: Smoke and Mint
38-50 servings
4.0 ozIngredients: Green Tea, White Tea, Mint, Jasmine, Natural Flavorings
Tasters Review:
The dry aroma of Jennifer’s Tea Garden’s Gunpowder Mint Tea is Smoky, Minty, Green Tea, White Tea, Floral…yes…I can smell all of those things with a single sniff!
The wet aroma is more of a stereotypical gunpowder tea smell…with a little extra something…maybe it’s the combo of the Jasmine and Mint I am smelling.
The color: is a light Yellow-Green.
As for the taste…this has a unique gunpowder type taste. It’s not a gunpowdery-grass-smoky as some are but the mint is very nicely done and not too over the top and the Jasmine gives it a little extra something too! I think the addition of the white tea is also a nice touch! It’s smoother than I expected…it was a pleasant surprise, indeed!
The aftertaste is NOT grassy…it’s slightly floral-sweet with a very small hint of smoke trying to hide underneath. There is a lovely smoothness to the aftertaste too.
I really like this tea! Great job and a THUMBS UP to Jennifer’s Tea Garden!
Wu Yi Oolong from Jennifer’s Tea Garden
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Oolong
Where to Buy: Jennifer’s Tea Garden
Product Description:
This tea from China’s Fujian province is known for its light, sweet cup with a fragrant orchid finish. When steeped, mature semi-fermented leaves expand to a full, lively cup with a little bit more body than a green tea but less body than a black tea. Rich in antioxidants, Wu Yi has been shown to promote healthy teeth, skin and bones, to lower cholesterol and to aid in digestion and weight loss.
Taster’s Review:
There is something about sipping on Oolong that makes me feel so pampered. Is it the taste? The mouthfeel? The aroma? It’s probably a combination of the three.
The aroma of this Wu Yi Oolong is toasty with notes of fruit in the distance. This fragrance translates well into the flavor, because there is a toasty quality to the flavor with a hint of fruit in the background. It tastes a bit like grilled or roasted fruit that has been caramelized to bring out the fruit’s natural sweetness. It tastes a bit like a combination between peach and plum.
There is a soft, silky mouthfeel to this tea that is similar to a green Oolong, however, this Oolong doesn’t have the same buttery taste to it. Where the buttery taste would normally be experienced, I taste the sweet, toasty caramel notes. It would be difficult to choose which I like better – the butter or the caramel – because both are remarkable in their own way!
Just before I reach the finish, I am noticing a bright floral note that is sweet. The light astringency of this tea cuts through that flowery taste just at the finish, leaving the palate feeling as though it has been gently patted dry. The sweet taste of caramelized fruit with a barely-there whisper of flower lingers beautifully in the aftertaste.
I highly recommend brewing this tea in a covered gaiwan. This will encourage the tightly wound tea leaves to open and release their fragrance and flavor. The process provides for six very flavorful infusions. I prefer to enjoy my Oolong tea hot – it offers the most flavor when served hot – although this would also make a delicious iced tea… perhaps with a thin slice of lemon to bring out the fruit notes?
A spectacular tea experience! Thank you, Jennifer’s Tea Garden!