I am doing the May prompts out of order. This is a tea that reminds me of my best friend.
My best friend was a hardcore coffee drinker, so the first time I offered her tea, I wasn’t sure she would like it. She doesn’t add milk or sugar to her coffee and treated tea the same. I think our first tea was probably Queen Catherine, and back then I DID add milk and sugar to black tea. It was actually because of her and another friend that I decided to wean myself off of the additions. We tried several teas that night, I remember, and she liked puerh right away.
The next time she came over, she said, “Well, are we having tea?” I was shocked, because I couldn’t tell if she had really enjoyed it. But she was hooked. She started out with black tea but later gravitated to greens and whites, and some herbal and flavored blends. She fell head over heels for Chocolate and Strawberry Puerh and started buying lots of Lupicia tea, and she brought some of this tea over share….about eight years ago, it was the first, and possibly the only, rooibos I have ever liked. Oh, and she is on Steepster, but not active.
This was a sample bag that came with my last Lupicia order. I had it with breakfast this morning, and it was quite good, but almost, just almost, too sweet for me, the way Mornin’ Waffles and Eleven by Cuppageek were very sweet, but just a tad less sweet than those.
The cough syrup rooibos flavor is completely buried, in my opinion. I don’t taste it at all.
This does have a boozy aroma and taste and the caramel is rich and…sweet. Let’s hammer that in. But I like it well enough that someday I would be willing to order it as an evening dessert tea. It would be brilliant for that, and was very good with my breakfast.
