Thank you cteresa for sharing some of this lovely tea with me.
The mix of orange flowers with the dark assam is first very lovely and the scent is peppery and fruity.
Once steeped, the scent of the liquor is mainly peppery, spicy.
Theodor requests not steeping it too long (3 mn) as it is an assam I strictly respected the advice.As well, this tea shouldn’t be brewed too hot, 85°c are really enough.
The taste is definitively spicy : pepper for sure, nutmeg (very present) and cinnamon but fruity as well with a very natural and pleasant orchard peach.
This is a fantastic tea, very original but not original to be original only : not something stupid like creating a fish and marmelade tea! Original to reveal spicy flavours working perfectly with a lovely peach, really.
This is a tea who works on the same basis as Mandalay from Mariage Frères, I do agree with cteresa, the spices are the honour guests in these 2 teas and without these guests the ambiance would be so annoying ! They are totally different, as Mandalay is not fruity and works with Rose and Vanilla.
I love both, this one as Mandalay is a keeper.
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I am go glad you enjoyed it – I totally agree! A different, original, weird in a good-weird way tea which is really unmistakable.
And the assam is so complicated to brew, but somehow so right for the pepper and spices and peach. An unexpected genius combination this.
But anything longer than 3 minutes totally kills this tea.
I am go glad you enjoyed it – I totally agree! A different, original, weird in a good-weird way tea which is really unmistakable.
And the assam is so complicated to brew, but somehow so right for the pepper and spices and peach. An unexpected genius combination this.
But anything longer than 3 minutes totally kills this tea.