Purple Tea

Subtle and taste the tea flavor but seems more in the bitter end.

This is the pure leaf, unflavored version. I haven’t had other purple leaf tea to compare this to, but I was excited to try this type. Unfortunately, there was hardly any flavor at all for me. Maybe it has more flavor brewing gongfu style, but I did western style as directed on the bag, and it tasted very bland to me. I tried adding a bit of sugar, but that still didn’t bring out any clear notes. I appreciated that it wasn’t bitter, funky, or vegetal, but it didn’t taste like anything but similar to weak black tea to me.

I like this one a lot. I've tried ONE other Kenyan tea previously but it was harsh-tasting-- almost bitter. Consequently, I went with 180/2 the first time around. Next time I made a cup, I tried 180/3 which works equally as well as far as taste. To me this tea has a light mineral taste, not unlike a rock oolong from the Wuyi area of China. Very nice. AND, I love that it's low caff. I don't have enough actual Camellia sinensis in the low caff category-- more herbals/tisanes and a few select white teas.

This purple tea has great nutty and chocolate flavors! Slightly more vegtable than floral. The only reason I'm not rating this a 5, is that the flavor was a bit weak and requires a bit more leaf than I would use on average.

Great antioxidant