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A sipdown!

To further complicate the description of this tea….mine says something different in the ingredients. Mine says “fruit and subtle flowers combine with bergamot and a hint of rose on a black tea base that has notes of wood and cocoa.”

The aroma is more lime than bergamot to me. Is finger lime (in someone else’s description) the same as bergamot?

Edited to add: One package was reported as having finger lime listed as an ingredient. I just looked that up and it is also called a caviar lime. I wondered why on earth they added the word caviar in the name. No wonder we perceived lime flavor as prevalent.

This is mostly citrusy with the barest hint of rose if I close my eyes and look for it and pretend I found it. The black tea base is very woody indeed. If it has chocolate notes, I must be honest that the lime/bergamot aftertaste is covering that up for me. It is not terribly strong bergamot, though. And I really do get more of a lime vibe from this. This packet is new so this should be the current recipe. It was purchased at the Dammann Freres shop in Paris just a few weeks ago.

I am icing some now to see if I like it sweet and cold. It is good, but not one I need to repurchase.