Sipdown (145)!
Commute tea from yesterday.
So this is one of the new blends from this year’s Winter Collection. It’s essentially like a reworked Bubbie’s Baklava, for anyone who remembers that tea. I have to be honest I couldn’t remember what I’d thought of that one overall so I had to look up what I’d written about it here on Steepster. I guess my biggest take away from drinking that one was how cinnamon heavy the blend came off to me.
So, fair warning about this one – the fruits chunks in this blend are really big and dense so if you wind up with a lot of them in the leaf you get it can wind up being a pretty heavy blend. When I’m taking tea home to sample generally I get around 10g of tea which is what I got for this one. All of that leaf went into this one travel thermos of tea.
I’d say that overall I enjoyed this blend but I was kind of in a constant state of flux while drinking it because I never really did settle on what food it was reminding me of. At first it tasted very much like a Bran Muffin to me, but then as it cooled and I picked up more of the sweetness from the fruit in the blend it was also a little like Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal. Then, on top of that, there were moments where I felt somewhat over taken by the spice notes and it seemed a little more like a Spice Cake. I guess the take away from all of that was that the spices/cinnamon in the blend were pretty strong throughout and no matter what I felt like it tasted like in the moment, every time there was that sort of “grains”/bread/cakey/however you want to say it component as well.
Other flavours I did get in the blend were the cranberry, cardamom and ginger – though all were lighter than the apple and cinnamon came off overall. Despite being the thing that the blend is named for, I also found a sizable lack of nutty notes. To be fair, most of that 10g sample was fruit chunks though. I don’t remember seeing any nut piece other than maybe an almond sliver? That could have affected the ration of flavours in my cup a bit as well.
I think it’s safe to say though that if you were a fan of Bubbie’s Baklava this is similar enough that you’ll like this one too though.
