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KiwiDelight drank Three Friends (Orange, Marshmallow, Chocolate) by Butiki Teas

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From the Teeny Tiny Traveling Tea Box.

The base leaf looks very pretty – little black tea leaves, slightly twisted, half dark brown and half golden. Chocolate dominates the dry leaf aroma, but both the chocolate and the orange stand out equally in the wet leaf aroma. Smells just like those orange-shaped chocolates you pound to separate the slices. Yum!

I brewed the leaves twice. The second was much better, taste-wise. The first, while still hot, was bitter, and the chocolate and orange began to appear only after the tea cooled to warm/warm-hot. For the second infusion, I let the leaves brew 7 minutes. After that time, the tea was lukewarm and the flavors and additional ingredients tasted their strongest at this point, particularly the orange zest. Full-bodied, brisk. No marshmallow detected either times.

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205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 7 g 8 OZ / 236 ML

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Cheri
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I’m glad that you agreed with me about no marshmallow. I didn’t get any, either, and the marshmallow was part of why I ordered this. Ah well.

KiwiDelight
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Have you tried S’mores from Della Terra? They used to have another marshmallow-y that I had once and liked.

Cheri
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I have not. If I see that one in any of the teaboxes I’m in, I’ll have to try it.

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Cheri
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I’m glad that you agreed with me about no marshmallow. I didn’t get any, either, and the marshmallow was part of why I ordered this. Ah well.

KiwiDelight
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Have you tried S’mores from Della Terra? They used to have another marshmallow-y that I had once and liked.

Cheri
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I have not. If I see that one in any of the teaboxes I’m in, I’ll have to try it.

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I began drinking tea because its complexity fascinated me. I love learning about its history, its manufacturing processes, and its place in various cultures.

Japanese greens were my first love and gateway into the world.

My favorite teas are leafhopper oolongs, pu’erh (shou and sheng), and masala chai. My favorite herbal tisanes are spear/peppermint, lavender and chrysanthemum.

I’m currently exploring pu’erh, and any Chinese and Taiwanese teas in general. I’m not much into flavored teas, unlike when I first started. The only teas I truly dislike are fruity tisanes and the ones that have too much fruit. I do like hisbiscus, especially iced.

I like to write nature essays. I’m a birdwatcher as well as a tea enthusiast. The kiwi is one of my favorite birds. I also like Tolkien, Ancient Egypt, and exercising.

IMPORTANT NOTE, PLEASE READ: After two and a half years of having an account here, I will no longer will provide numerical ratings as an addition to the review because the American school system has skewed my thoughts on numbers out of a hundred and the colors throw me off. Curses! My words are more than sufficient. If I really like what I have, I will “recommend”, and if I don’t, “not recommended”.

Key for past ratings:

96-100 I adore absolutely everything about it. A permanent addition to my stash.

90-95 Superb quality and extremely enjoyable, but not something I’d necessarily like to have in my stash (might have to do with personal tastes, depending on what I say in the tasting note).

80-89 Delicious! Pleased with the overall quality.

70-79 Simply, I like it. There are qualities that I find good, but there also are things that aren’t, hence a lower rating that I would have otherwise like to put.

60-69 Overall “meh”. Not necessarily bad, but not necessarily good.

0-59 No.

If there is no rating: I don’t feel experienced enough to rate the tea, or said tea just goes beyond rating (in a positive way).