This is a really nice rich, deep, strawberry and chocolate noted tea. It is especially nice as many strawberry teas use light bases, whereas this one is rich and dense and malty. The flavouring and the base tea balance each other nicely.
The tea smells of ripe strawberry, strong dark chocolate/espresso, malt, vanilla and spice.
Malt, fruit and cocoa in the base mixes with chocolate flavouring in my initial taste and then opens up to ripe strawberry. Tannins and a mild astringency in the tea contribute to a bready feeling in the mouth. The strawberry is lightly mixed with a cinnamon spice note in the base and vanilla and cream notes. the strawberry is bright and ripe and slightly flowery. Espresso notes are present in a bitterness and slight nuttiness that mixes with the cocoa and malt and they counterbalance nicely with the sweet, bright, and soft top notes of the tea.
The tea resteeps well with strawberry and malt becoming more dominant and the tea becoming more astringent.
Thanks so much Stacy for this lovely gift of a tea!
Sounds so very yummy :-)