How utterly weird – this is so much closer to what I expected the Milk Caramel I tried yesterday to be. And may I say wow. This is a very impressive tea.
In the bag it smells like a gooey, chestnutty bread pudding. There is a toffee-like quality to it, too, which carries through right into the cup. Steeped, it’s all melty toffee and chestnut – it reminds me a lot of making ice cream; as it simmers, the custard base carries the same thick sweetness that comes through in this tea. Every sip is beautifully balanced – silky, creamy and rich.
It’s even ridiculously good cold.
This is probably the last time I’m going to review this many Lupicia teas in a row, because I feel nothing like my disdainful, tea-litist self after six of these lovefests. Read this in the meantime, lest you forget my true nature: http://steepster.com/clareborn/posts/212352
Lupicia, please marry me. Please, please, pleaaasehhhh.
[From my Lupicia order to Rome, April 2014.]
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ahh, I love this one too!
HAHAHA! I loved your link to your ‘true nature’. Your tea logs are the best, Anna…
my hairs would be sad if you married tea..
Aaah! Frawgy! It’s you, I know you! I had no idea you were following me. <3
Aw, Siller, my hairs would only marry your hairs, you know this. You know. And, more importantly, they know.
my hairs want to wrap themselves up in your hairs..
They will have hairspoons forever and ever always.
Oh, Anna! That linked note is the Best Thing Evar, I think. :D :D So amazing.
Hahaha, thanks – you know, I actually FOUND the tea of horror in a store a while back, I’m just going to buy it and send out a bag with every single swap from now on. It will be the swap equivalent of a letter signed in BLOOD.
You’ll have to include a link to your tasting note when people let you know they’ve received the package. :D
ahh, I love this one too!
HAHAHA! I loved your link to your ‘true nature’. Your tea logs are the best, Anna…
my hairs would be sad if you married tea..
Aaah! Frawgy! It’s you, I know you! I had no idea you were following me. <3
Aw, Siller, my hairs would only marry your hairs, you know this. You know. And, more importantly, they know.
my hairs want to wrap themselves up in your hairs..
They will have hairspoons forever and ever always.
Oh, Anna! That linked note is the Best Thing Evar, I think. :D :D So amazing.
Hahaha, thanks – you know, I actually FOUND the tea of horror in a store a while back, I’m just going to buy it and send out a bag with every single swap from now on. It will be the swap equivalent of a letter signed in BLOOD.
You’ll have to include a link to your tasting note when people let you know they’ve received the package. :D