From the March subscription box. This month, 3 of the 4 selections are unflavored black teas. I do enjoy plain black teas, but just seems like a weird choice to have so many in the same category. Two of them are breakfast-style blends, and one is a plain Nepalese tea.
This one… I’m not sure I buy that there’s no scenting or flavoring happening here. They claim it’s just black teas and blue cornflowers, and in my package the flowers are quite scarce. Yet this has a noticeable floral taste to it, especially in the finish. It’s quite a heady type of floral as well, something close to rose. It’s not rose, but I’m not familiar enough with florals to identify it. I’ve had cornflowers in so many teas, and never noticed a floral note from them, so I’m hesitant to believe that they’re contributing such a strong flavor in this blend. Aside from the floral notes, it tastes a bit Lipton-y, which is usually an indicator of Ceylon for me. Definitely acidic, with a bit of astringency as well. I can’t tell what other teas are here, but I’m not getting a lot of malt.
Definitely not the tea for me, so I’m putting the rest in my rehoming box.
ETA: I finally realized what the floral in this reminds me of, it’s lychee! I think S&V carries a lychee-scented black tea, so I wonder if that’s one of the “black teas” in this blend?
Flavors: Acidic, Astringent, Brisk, Floral, Lychee, Metallic, Perfume, Rose, Tannic
