December 3rd in my Christmas calendar.
This one made me go ooooh! when I saw what it was. I find the idea of this extremely attractive. I don’t drink a lot of green and even less white, but when I do it’s 99% flavoured stuff, so the base blend here doesn’t put me off at all.
The leaf smells lovely, all rhubarb-y and sweet and exciting. After steeping it smells mostly like rhubarb with only a smidge of vanilla. It gets that funny bubblegum smell. It’s a pink smell and feels rubbery. You’d think this would be a minus, but I think of it kind of like the Assam and cardboard thing, so it’s probably more like something I would find weird if it wasn’t there.
It doesn’t taste like bubblegum, though. Rhubarb is a flavour that goes surprisingly well with tea. I have a rhubarb flavoured black also from Fru P and I’d never seen that before, but I’ve seen it often in green teas. I’m getting a lot of green tea and rhubarb flavour from it, but not so much vanilla. I can only sort of find the vanilla as a side flavour. A hint of it here and there, and I would have liked it to be a lot stronger.
My wish is granted through patience however, because once the cup cools just a little bit more there’s a heavy and thick vanilla-y aftertaste. And this right here at this particular temperature, this is just wonderful!
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sounds really good!
Haha! I like the pink smell and rubbery feel description! People usually think I’m nuts when I I try to convince them on how a certain tea «feels» to me. To a non tea lover, it’s absolute rubbish, but I totally get it :-)
Never came across a vanilla-rhubarb combination, makes sense though, it must mellow down the tartness…sounds like a good mood lifter :-)
I love rhubarb and vanilla together it reminds me my grandma ! I should try this one
i have a rhubarb cream coming from tgteas out of germany….. can’t wait!
yyz, it is. Rhubarb goes surprisingly well with teas. :)
TheTeaFairy, I often feel silly when I write stuff like that. But I can’t describe it any other way, so in the interest of honesty… At least it’s entertaining. :)
Ysaurella, it does for me as well! My paternal gran would serve a fruit porridge of rhubarb and strawberry as a summer dessert. Cold, with some cold milk or cream poured on it.
JustJames, rhubarb and cream would undoubtedly be an excellent combination. See above mentioned dessert. :)
sounds really good!
Haha! I like the pink smell and rubbery feel description! People usually think I’m nuts when I I try to convince them on how a certain tea «feels» to me. To a non tea lover, it’s absolute rubbish, but I totally get it :-)
Never came across a vanilla-rhubarb combination, makes sense though, it must mellow down the tartness…sounds like a good mood lifter :-)
I love rhubarb and vanilla together it reminds me my grandma ! I should try this one
i have a rhubarb cream coming from tgteas out of germany….. can’t wait!
yyz, it is. Rhubarb goes surprisingly well with teas. :)
TheTeaFairy, I often feel silly when I write stuff like that. But I can’t describe it any other way, so in the interest of honesty… At least it’s entertaining. :)
Ysaurella, it does for me as well! My paternal gran would serve a fruit porridge of rhubarb and strawberry as a summer dessert. Cold, with some cold milk or cream poured on it.
JustJames, rhubarb and cream would undoubtedly be an excellent combination. See above mentioned dessert. :)