There are several lemony ingredients in this tea, with the lemon myrtle being the predominant flavor. What lemon myrtle tastes like to me is, not lemon itself as in lemon juice, but lemon zest, the yellow part of lemon peel. Lemon zest is used in baking to give things a zingier taste – if you bake goodies sometimes, you’ve probably used lemon zest or orange zest (fresh or in their dried peel form), so you know how lemon zest can taste “lemon-y” even more than the pulp. So it’s not a lemonade-flavored tea, it’s more a baked-lemon-pastry flavor.
Chai, Baby! says about this tea:
Freshen up, baby! Our lovely & delicate White Tea & Lemon Myrtle contains rare, pure and elegant Bai Mudan white tea buds, combined with all-natural, premium lemon myrtle and lemongrass for refreshing, citrusy notes.
We wanted to add a white tea to our growing collection of unique specialty tea concoctions. Then, we came across the elegant & delicate Bai Mudan white tea bud and fell in love!
Though we loved the taste, we also wanted to give the blend a little of that distinctive Chai, Baby! character. We found that lemongrass and lemon myrtle added exquisitely light citrus notes to this delicate & refreshing tea blend. The result — White Tea & Lemon Myrtle — is truly unique! Enjoy, baby!
The dried tea is easy to see in the mesh sachets, and it’s very pretty; there are calendula flower petals added, as well as the lemon myrtle and lemon grass. It smells like lemon from the get-go. It brews up a yellowish color (a second steeping, for longer, is a bit darker.) The taste is as zesty as the smell. The taste stays strong when the tea is iced, and it’s a very refreshing iced tea. It’s good for at least two steepings, with as much lemon-zest flavor in the second steeping as the first, and equally good iced from that second steeping. A mint leaf adds a bright note to the iced tea!
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"Well, as someone who has tasted a lot of chai tea, I can attest that this really is not very similar in taste to Chai. Chai tends to focus on the spices, whereas this tea’s focus is on the orange, with the spices being very gentle and more of an accent to the orange."
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"Haha!! My co-worker told me that she purchased this tea after having purchased the Matcha Latte at Seattle’s Best, and her and another co-worker purchased this because they believed it was what was served there. She stated to me today that “it didn’t seem the same exactly…it felt like their was something..."
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"I’m not absolutely certain, but I believe that this is the concentrate that Seattle’s Best coffee shops use to make their matcha latte. The lattes I’ve enjoyed there were sweet with a definite melon flavor… and I have noticed that they sell other Tazo teas there. If it IS the concentrate that they use… I am..."
liber-teas said, in reply to Matcha Latté with Honeydew from Tazo Tea on August 20, 2010 at 8:47 pm
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