Jasmine is one of those scents/flavors that has to be handled with care in tea. Too much jasmine and you're gagging on liquid incense. As a result, I'm very unimpressed by this tea.
All I get out of Tea Forte's Orange Jasmine Green tea is jasmine. Really strong and overwhelming jasmine at that. As in, it's going to crawl into my nose, beat me up and take my lunch money jasmine. Like fourth season of Angel Jasmine.
The orange is fairly well-hidden. I had to brew it a second time with the same bag to get the orange notes in the aftertaste. I liked the second brewing far better than the first. Some honey also helped beat the jasmine back into submission.
My takeaway is that this is a tea best briefly steeped, unless you *really* like jasmine. I don't like jasmine quite enough. Having finished the sample package, I won't be buying it again.
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