Azores Orange Pekoe Black

If you are going for value for the money – this it it! I tend to buy the tea directly from gorreana.pt, where it costs 5$/100g with cheap shipping and within EU. What-Cha is not anymore :’(

I buy this tea for my parents, because of the excellent value and because it’s genuinely a solid black tea. Not a lot of bitterness, a lot of maltyness.
Also very exiting with a tea grown in the EU

I have (had) a 10g pouch of this. I sent part of it to Cheri and today decided to have a cup. One more and it will be a sip down.

This is a nice, flavorful medium-bodied black tea. It’s not a knock you off your horse tea, and it’s not a 99 lb weakling either. Just satisfying and delicious.

6g of tea in my 160ml gaiwan (about 150ml of water used due to volume of leaf in the cup)

The Nose

I stuck my nose into the bag of dry leaves and took a sniff. Imagery of summer time gardening swirled in my mind. I remembered when I was young and my dad had just cut the lawn with his ride-on lawn mower. The freshly cut blades laid under the South Florida sun for a few minutes before he raked it into a thick green bin which he used only for gardening. I remembered putting my head into the half filled bin and smelling the grass.

It didn’t smell like a freshly cut lawn which smells humid and green. Sun dried grass smells steamed and sweet.

I also got other notes from the dry leaves. A nutty sweet, like walnut and honey, note made it into my mind.

The Tasting

The tasting reinforced my nose. A creamy taste of sun steamed grass clippings, walnut, and honey that melts all together into a soft velvety finish is what I sensed. The flavor felt as if it were kissed by the sun, warm.