2070 Tasting Notes
ADVENT DAY 17, tea 1/3
Tasting note #2000
More or less similar to Scottish breakfast blend, but milder and more malty. Also very strong in caffeine, robust and strong tea. Less of the woody flavours. Tasty overall, but somehow I prefer the Scottish. Maybe because it tastes just stronger, maybe it actually is… maybe I didn’t liked Ceylon here enough?
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ADVENT DAY 16, tea 3/3
I intended to try this tea after the second one, as they seemed to have a similar flavor profile.
While they are indeed similar, this one is more hibiscus-forward, perhaps due to the longer steeping time. Instead of the prominent cinnamon notes in the previous tea, I detected more cloves here. Unfortunately, I missed the apple notes that were present in the first tea, and there were no noticeable crumble notes in either. It seems this blend hasn’t changed much since Kelmishka tried it two years ago.
Preparation
ADVENT DAY 16, tea 1/3
Another already tried tea. But this time I used whole pouch in one western steeping method. Well, I don’t recommend this.
The flavours felt like washed out, like a standard red fruits tea with black tea base.
Don’t steep this tea in a strainer. It deserves gongfu brewing.
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ADVENT DAY 15, tea 3/3
Floral bomb for the evening. Yes, this smells and tastes incredlibly floral. There is not much of lemon; but lemon verbena and a whole lot of lavender. And roses.
Taste is, not surprisingly, floral again, with some powdery note and sadly nothing that reminds me lemons. A bit refreshing thanks to spearmint. And a bit soapy… but that makes sense.
But it’s relaxing, not gonna lie. Just not my preffered flavor profile. But the box looks prety, isn’t it?
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ADVENT DAY 15, tea 2/3
Hmm, yummy!
A cup full of round muscatel, followed with some herbal and grassy notes; with mouthcoating qualities like a honey. Gulped it down.
Last year it was fruitier than this vintage, but nevertheless it’s wonderful cup.
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ADVENT DAY 15, tea 1/3
Welcome to another meh tea from Yawn.
Well, I guess that the FF Darjeeling from other calendar would make my morning better than this. It just tastes like earl grey, but cream, vanilla or what should say ice cream is almost non-existent. And the level of bergamot is so damn low!
It tasted like a very, very faded earl grey. That rather surprises me when I had a good experienced with some of their teas earlier in the advent calendar.
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ADVENT DAY 14, tea 3/3
This tea stinks when brewed. I can’t describe it well, but it was just foul somehow. But it didn’t made me to spill it out; so I took a sip. Well, not great if you ask me!
But it was cooling down, and in one or two sips I thought it is actually pretty good. Chocolate covered chai — but spices being very, very tamed. Maybe that’s what I disliked the most. It was just a muddled spicy flavour covered in cocoa.
Overall, today wasn’t so great day with the advent teas. I hope it’s only one day :)
Preparation
ADVENT DAY 14, tea 2/3
I believe this is very fine teas, but it seems I am not so much fan of yancha oolongs, ya’ know?
It is strong in mineral tastes, with warming cinnamon aftertaste. Maybe a bit too roasted for my tastes. It wasn’t rough, just I am not a friend of this flavour profile.
Prepared gongfu – 5 g / 125 ml; 90°C.
Intentionally without rating
Preparation
ADVENT DAY 14, tea 1/3
Yay, a flavoured green! Oh, jasmine… yes the buds are present. But fruits? Why to ruin it with fruits?
After steeping I noticed the jasmine for sure and base tea was okay; but that whiff of fruits, made from flavourings only (!) was just making whole tea muddled in flavours and it wasn’t working well with the flowers.
When something is called a fruit salad, I would expect an explosion of fruits… but that would cover the jasmine. Well, as I said, I don’t think that those two go together.
