1403 Tasting Notes
Steeped this up and it smells great. Waiting for it to cool enough that it is drinkable.
Hmm, this is a tricky fruit tea. One first sip, it tastes a bit perfumed. However, as the flavours gel a bit more with cooling, the tastes strike me as quite natural. That said, it is an
odd combination with fruit, star anise, vanilla, and the tartness of likely rose hips and/or hibiscus which makes the sips a bit uneven.
Finally, it seems to me that the honey flavour used here is remarkably like that of Quarter to Tea, and sometimes I am able to pick it out here. Usually though, the honey flavour hides a bit with the muddle of other prominent tastes battling for position.
All said, a pleasant caffeine free tea though.
There’s that perfect moment when the tea cools to just the right temperature to allow the buttery fried dense pastry dough with burnt brown sugar with a bare hint of cinnamon melding beautifully with the toasty fried dough bits and the base to emerge all in the exactly right proportion. Another masterpiece.
And it’s a sipdown!
Sipdown 64
I have a sealed package of this I keep looking over. Perhaps I need to start drinking it.
I desperately want to try this tea
This is one that was made possible with a very special base that I don’t usually keep in stock – and really, I haven’t purchased any for quite a while so I don’t know when/if I will reblend it.
Well, VariaTEA, should you decide that it doesn’t work for you, I’d be happy to take it off your hands. :)
V – would love to try if need help haha
Duly noted Sil and Evol Ving Ness
:)
I was up late this morning and needed to rush to get it together before running for the bus. Funny how the first week of January is always like this after having been so chilled during overeating and holiday days to suddenly have to actually get dressed and get life things done—-barbaric somehow.
Anyway, I wanted a good travel tea, but not one that would lose deliciousness in the carrying. Truthfully, I didn’t want to waste tea that I loved in the busyness of the day. I knew that I would only have some minutes to concentrate on tea and its loveliness while going places and getting things done.
So I chose this one. Good enough but not a tragic loss if sips do not have my full attention.
Enjoyable. Happy to have had this one with me. It was perfect for what the day required.
Oooh, yeah, this is the business. I’ve been drinking milk oolong for the past couple of days and have been loving it. However, I woke up today underslept and needed a bang, howdy doody kind of tea and this one was it. I am nearing the bottom of my pouch of this and the vanilla bits must have settled, so today’s cups are punchy malty vanilla goodness. Perfection.
I find this one does best with water well under boiling and a speedy steep to keep it smooth. Ayup, works for me.
Such deliciousness, especially when I am in the mood for a milk oolong. 5 steeps, the last two began to lose the milkiness in favour of floral oolong. Lovely.
The handwriting on the pouch indicating the name of the tea is tricky to discern. It could well be Go Pang or Ga Pong or several other variations. I need to go back to the Kusmi store in Montreal where I bought it and give them hell for that.
