This is one of the teas that is well known and has quite a following so I was looking forward to try it. I was impressed as soon as I opened the tin: the smell was fierce and, in a sense , primeval. The appearance looked very appealing and natural with the orange dust everywhere and large chunks of …oranges, I guess.
But after I made a cup of tea and took a sip I had to stop and instinctively take a big breath as if I was burned. The taste is incredibly intense, dripping with sweetness, cloves, citrus and cinnamon in megadoses. It takes more like a spiced apple cider on steroids: the tea itself gets absolutely overshadowed by everything else.
It is just way to intense for me and simply falls into a completely different category of drinks: whatever it is it is not tea as I understand it. I will probably need to drink it a couple of more times to let it grow on me but the problem is that I usually match a specific kind of tea with my mood at the moment and I am not sure I will have the mood befitting this concoction with any frequency. Quite possibly, this tea reminded me that I am more of a steady, puttering-along type of a person unlike living in the fast lane fiery personalities for whom this tea was so obviously created.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Cloves, Orange, Sweet
