At any rate among my favorite blends they made was something called
"Spring Cherry" Click for a link to their website: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5fe8kl
The teabags of their spring cherry are a mix of green and white tea and other herbs. It also seems to vary from their full leaf recipe.
- Our tea bag offering contains Japanese sencha green tea leaves scented with cherry essence and blended with peony flowers and white paklum blossoms (downy, white tea buds).
I recently decided to buy myself a full 1 pound of Spring Cherry full leaf from Republic of Tea as a little graduation present to myself (which I received last night). I did of course buy lots of teas from Adagio and Teavana as well.
So I brew up my 1st cup of "full leaf" spring cherry and instantly I can tell this tea doesn't taste ANYTHING like the tea bag version of the tea. Which is insanely disappointing to me (not to mention that's like 40-50 bucks down the drain). I went back to the site and I noticed the recipe for the full lead tea is different then the tea bag version
- Our full leaf offering contains Japanese sencha green tea leaves scented with cherry essence and blended with rose petals and white paklum blossoms(downy, white tea buds).
I would love to replicate this blend with adagios signature do it yourself blend but they only permit 3 blends items at a time and do not allow you to select sencha. Not to mention I have no idea the % values of each to distribute. Peony Leaves, random green tea (not sencha since its not allowed) and real cherry... is the closest I can create and it still lacks the 4th ingredient of flowers for aroma. Also, white paklum blossoms is also not available on adagio.
Anyone have any advice to put this tea to good use (brewing techniques to bring out the high aroma I am used to?).. or additional tea/herbs that I could add to make it more aromatic (the tea bag version you could smell across the room... in a good way)... It just seems like the full leaf version lost all its aroma and flavor. Is this common for all full leaf blends to be different from the tea bag blends for most vendors? I would hate to see all this tea go to waste for the price. I am using the utilitea with green tea setting to brew this up.. and one spoon worth of buds. Advice or help is appreciated. I suppose my next step is to double the amount of tea.. possibly triple.