This is a very perfumed tea and its aroma evokes being at a busy, bustling perfume counter where a bunch of youthful girl scouts are spraying the air with all kinds of different and not necessarily complementary scents. Trying to deconstruct the riot of flavours and aromas is not easy.
Perhaps this tea is too much of a good thing: it’s as if a master builder had only one opportunity to create a building and tried to do a Bauhaus structure with Gothic gargoyles, rococo flying buttresses, and Frank Lloyd Wright glass.
Perhaps it’s not wise to gather up so many sages for one single tea. But it’s not cacophonous—-just a bit busy. I think that the citrus looms larger than the rest.
Or maybe a decent Earl Grey got loose in the kitchen one night and added all of the loose ingredients it could find to itself.
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Dear friend, you are the literate queen of creative and evocative tasting notes! Chuckled all the way through this one.
Oh yes and loved the images in the first paragraph!
I really like the way you described that, particularly the last part about the Earl Grey. I know you wrote this five years ago, but it’s still beautiful.
Dear friend, you are the literate queen of creative and evocative tasting notes! Chuckled all the way through this one.
Oh yes and loved the images in the first paragraph!
I really like the way you described that, particularly the last part about the Earl Grey. I know you wrote this five years ago, but it’s still beautiful.