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Yay, more teas from A Quarter to Tea!!!
So, I picked up the seven tea sampler but only six teas really stood out to me so for the seventh I just asked Lauren to surprise me. This is the surprise tea! I have to say, I’m not totally sure why it didn’t catch my eye given that I’m a fan of everything in it. Especially the cranberry and cloves!!! It’s a stinky, stanky tea though – not in a bad way but in a “you’d probably need to triple bag it to keep the intense aroma in” sort of way. My entire package smelled super strongly of this bad boy, so I thought I’d best finish it off quickly so as to not let the aroma contaminate the other teas.
Of course I cold brewed it: it was really lovely! The cranberry could have maybe been just a touch stronger, but I’m also totally a cranberry fiend when it comes to my teas so for someone who only likes cranberry and doesn’t love it I imagine the proportions were probably reasonable. I felt like I could taste a bit of everything though; and that’s exactly what you want out of a tea: proportional representation of all ingredients! It was lively and fruity (the tangerine was a super nice touch), but with a perfectly balanced spice backdrop that made it seasonally appropriate for the Autumn/Winter transition. This is exactly what I wanted, but didn’t get, out of DAVIDsTEA’s Cranberry Orange Muffin tisane. So good!
And God Bless Lauren for not including ginger.