Sipdown!
This tea smells a bit like vanilla citrus cake just in the bag. It makes me crave muffins with brown sugar and citrus zest sprinkled onto the top to make it all crunchy and delicious.
Of course, my smelling is rather suspect right now due to a cold, but this is what I wanted, so this is what I’m having.
Steeping it for 2 minutes at a lower temperature (kettle wasn’t quite boiling, then I let it sit for a few minutes before pouring), it smells so delicious. Not really grapefruit, but lots of vanilla.
If they had samples of the loose tea, or any smaller option than a tin of sachets or 1lb of loose, I would probably get it again to try. As it is, it’s a nice vanilla tea with some citrus notes.
I had a cup of this at a coffee place (bagged but I think it only comes bagged) and I liked it a lot – HOWEVER it was one of the first better quality teas I had tired.
This was before getting into loose leaf and finding steepster but not long before!
I wonder if I would still like it now that I have tried so many other teas. Still have yet to find a GREAT Grapefruit tea though.
Mine is loose but I bought it from Harney directly. Perhaps that makes a difference?
It’s really interesting to go back and taste old favorites pre-Steepster. I gotta say, the old tie guan yin I used to love so much is only tasting mediocre these days. Sad.
Yeah it is sad in a way to advance past the ability to enjoy some old loved ones.
Oh I wonder if it does make a difference. I may grabs some when I make my order with them.
Try Lupicia’s Grapefruit Green. As I’m found of saying, it’s a citric punch-in-the-mouth! ;)