Teabox Tuesday! Another sample from the Discovery Teabox, so thank you to Skysamurai for organizing and all participants for sharing! I’m trying to work through all the old 52Teas blend samples I took from the box first. This one is from 2012, and apparently it’s supposed to be a “buttered toffee caramel corn” flavored black tea, but I’m not getting any of that from sniffing the leaf, so perhaps this one has been hit the hardest from age (7 years? Ya I would expect as much!). But I’m a huge Doctor Who fan, so I was happy to see a Doctor Who themed blend regardless.
Had to take this one to work after a rushed and stressful morning getting into the office, since all this stupid snow froze my car door shut so I couldn’t defrost and was 15 minutes late (granted, at least I have a car to defrost now… well… sort of. I don’t exactly properly own it yet, even though I’ve paid for it. My family couldn’t find the Title anywhere, and when your grandma has just but put into longterm care for severe dementia, there is no way she is going to know where that Title is. We’ve paid the ridiculous $93 duplicate fee from the state of Oregon, but it’ll take up to 5 weeks to receive it. Ooooooooooooooooooooh unnecessary paperwork…)
I’m definitely not picking up anything caramelly in the flavor anymore. There is a sweetness to the flavor compared to a plain black tea, but I’d say it tastes mostly like a subtle burnt sugar flavor, leaning towards the ghost of something toffee-like, with an odd hint of a sort of cherry/marzipan note. And I’m still getting that dry metallic/alcohol taste toward the end of the sip, exactly the same as I got from the Candy Corn tea yesterday, so that is either my tastebuds reacting to a certain brand of flavorings that was used on these really old 52Teas blends, or simply something that is coming out from the age of the tea itself.
Of the ones I’ve tried so far, this one seems to have held up the worst flavorwise compared to the description, but I’m still happy to have something warm to revitalize my fingers and tummy after Icegate this morning with the car. (Sadly my toes still haven’t bounced back yet). I would love to see more Doctor Who-inspired blends in general (and not Adagio custom blends… I’m just not really a fan of those). They make my geeky soul happy.
Flavors: Alcohol, Burnt Sugar, Malt, Marzipan, Metallic
Sad. This tea was pretty tasty back when it was fresh (I know this because it was a repurchase for me), but the last cup of mine was less-than-stellar as well.