I got this as a surprise sample from Sil. Sil, you’re awesome!
I was excited to try this tea, mostly because I had to run out and do some errands. And I have a brand new travel mug for loose leaf tea to try. So I brewed it up and ran out the door.
I am not sure how to describe this tea. The dry tea smells like a sweet black tea. But the smell is very generic, and hard to describe. The taste of the brewed tea is very black tea prominent. There is a fruit sugar smell to it. I don’t get any taste, or any hint of vanilla. The vanilla may be there but it is masked by this generic fruit sugar taste. After drinking through my travel mug, it dawned on me that this tea tastes almost the same as one of my apricot teas, and that is the fruit sugar taste I am getting.
I have enough tea left for another time, I might decrease the water temp a bit and increase the steep time and see what happens.
Yeaaaah….not a fan of this one either :)
Good to know people aren’t enjoying this one, thanks.
David – I’ll be swapping the bag i purchased with a few other people so you should get some more feedback from folks :)