June Wedding! This is another borrowed tea from the last Here’s Hoping Traveling Teabox (thanks so much to tea-sipper for organizing and to all that contributed teas to the box!) I’ve never sampled a tea from Georgia, so I was happy to get the opportunity to try this. I only kept a single serving of this, and prepared it as a hot cuppa. It was that first cup of the day, as I thought a black tea would be a good choice after a rough night of sleep.
The aroma from the cup was very malty and honey-sweet, reminding me immediately of some of my very favorite Chinese blacks (like Black Dragon Pearls), so I had a good feeling before even taking a sip I was going to enjoy it. The taste confirmed this! The tea had notes of malt, apricot, a hint of warm cherry at the back of the tongue, and a honey sweetness and very subtle smokiness that lingered in the aftertaste. It was a very smooth cup, lacking bitterness and holding only the most subtle of astringent drying of the tongue after the sip. Overall, this is the exact kind of black tea that is to my tastes, and now I’m very interested in trying more Georgian teas!
Flavors: Apricot, Cherry, Honey, Malt, Smoke, Smooth
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I wanted to try Georgian teas for a while but was deterred by their historic reputation of being cheap and mass-produced. Yours is the second or third very complimentary review of Georgian What-Cha teas. And if they truly taste more like Chinese and not Indian teas – I must try it!
Thank you for such a detailed review, that’s Steepster at its best.
I certainly want to try more too, since I’ve only tasted a single cup, but this one came off with a lot of similarities to Black Dragon Pearls or TeaSource’s Hunan Black Reserve, both China blacks I really like. I’m not as much a fan of Indian blacks (at least not Assams) and it certainly didn’t fall in that spectrum of black teas for me.
Steepster is great, though sometimes I feel like my Wishlist after reading reviews each morning is getting as out of hand as my actual tea shelf, hahahaha!
I wanted to try Georgian teas for a while but was deterred by their historic reputation of being cheap and mass-produced. Yours is the second or third very complimentary review of Georgian What-Cha teas. And if they truly taste more like Chinese and not Indian teas – I must try it!
Thank you for such a detailed review, that’s Steepster at its best.
I certainly want to try more too, since I’ve only tasted a single cup, but this one came off with a lot of similarities to Black Dragon Pearls or TeaSource’s Hunan Black Reserve, both China blacks I really like. I’m not as much a fan of Indian blacks (at least not Assams) and it certainly didn’t fall in that spectrum of black teas for me.
Steepster is great, though sometimes I feel like my Wishlist after reading reviews each morning is getting as out of hand as my actual tea shelf, hahahaha!