Oh, the sadness that is discovering the tea you drank is not the tea you thought you drank! Alas, poor Mt. Everest Breakfast, you are suffering for my failure to read the label, because you are a perfectly reasonable English breakfast tea that doesn’t have the glory and shine that is the Majesty’s Chai that I drank, thinking it was you.
This tea is a breakfast blend. I love Yunnan, and I love Assam, and sadly, the two combined in this tea to not be a force multiplier of each other, but to instead cancel out the distinguishing notes that both teas have and leave me with…a breakfast blend.
I will not be buying it again, because I do not need a breakfast blend. If I’m going to pay for Yunnan leaves, I want it to be Yunnan-flavored. If I’m going to go drink Assam, I want it to be Assam. I don’t want a blend of the two that tastes merely tea-flavored.
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I never seem to be very fond of blends either, I’d rather enjoy the teas separately. :P
I can understand the appeal of always having “the same” flavors, if you’re a super taster or something like that. Average can be appealing in certain circumstances.
But I was hoping for a multiplication, not an average. :-p Nope, not this time.
I never seem to be very fond of blends either, I’d rather enjoy the teas separately. :P
I can understand the appeal of always having “the same” flavors, if you’re a super taster or something like that. Average can be appealing in certain circumstances.
But I was hoping for a multiplication, not an average. :-p Nope, not this time.