1403 Tasting Notes
Steeped with cooler water. A bit of a sour after sip. Wonder what is up with that?
This was yesterday’s travel cup or two or three. The flavour is true blueberry with a bit of cream and the divine black blend base. Event though I was sidetracked with my day’s events and not focussing on the tea as fully as I would have like to, this tea is always a pleasure.
I completely forgot about the maple aspect of this tea when I reached for it today. Delicious, even though the maple came as a surprise.
For some reason, I was thinking Cinnabon when I decided to steep this up. I mean, I have had a few cups of this tea, so I theoretically know that it is not Cinnabon.
You know when you are expecting one thing and you get something a bit different?
Yeah, well.
This is a very delicious tea. Just don’t expect Cinnabon.
Thank you, VariaTEA :)
Another in-store sample.
Again, I like the flavour. It’s the after sip that I don’t like. While in this experience, the after sip was a bit less harsh, the flavour is still unpleasant. What I had initially thought was stevia, it turns out that this is the combination of sugar—as the fruit used is preserved in sugar—and matcha. I wonder whether the after sip would be the same if the tea were steeped at home with cooler water.
Sweet potato and dark chocolate and a teeny bit of citrus. Someone had described this as leathery. I get that in the sense of warm rich golden brown saddle leather, if that had a taste. Well, I’m sure it does have a taste, but I/we rarely taste it.
This tea has a remarkable depth in flavour. Intoxicating.
Glad to be able to tote this along with me today into the world.
So grateful to have found this surprise squirrelled away while shuffling and attempting to order my cupboard. I like the savoury goodness of this tea a lot and would like to see it make a comeback one of these days. No sense of urgency, of course, as omg, too many teas. Nothing else to say as the name pretty well sums up what is going on here with the added slight smokiness in the base. Odd, but beautiful.
This is likely to be reblended at some point since it is one of my all-time favorites. Probably not this year, or even next year – but eventually. At the moment, I’m toying around with the idea of doing a green tea version of it because that was my original vision for the tea but Frank wanted to do it as a black tea so it could be more like a “soup” tea. I was thinking “Salad” which green tea would serve as a better base.
My first impulse is noooooooooo green—black, please.
I’m sure that green would be awesome, of course, but black would be my preference. The green concept is magnificent though, I gotta say.