First taste of an on-going experimental blend!
I took one fragrant dried vanilla pod and broke it into three pieces. The base tea is chamomile and rose (also did the same with a puerh/white tea blend separately). The vanilla pods have been infusing flavour into the flowers for 24 hours now. I’m very impressed at the vanilla flavour. I used a very high quality fair trade vanilla pod, so I imagine the quality of the vanilla would affect this a lot.
So, this is my tasting note for my homemade blend of “Chamomile Rose Vanilla”
Steeped 1 tsp of rose buds/petals and chamomile (did not steep any vanilla pod), brewed 3.5 minutes with 600 mL of 81 *C water. Brew has a strong taste of natural vanilla and flowers. Both the rose and chamomile come through well. The chamomile blossoms at the bottom of the bag are mostly pollen, and I find the whole blossom vs loose pollen have different flavours. I used about half chamomile blossoms and half loose pollen from the bottom of the bag with equal amounts of rose vs total chamomile. The chamomile gives a slightly lemony dried hay taste. The rose used is very perfumy, which lends itself really well to a blend.
At this point in time, I’d rate the blend 80/100.
Flavors: Floral, Flowers, Hay, Honey, Hot hay, Lemon, Perfume, Rose, Vanilla
I like the sound of this. Well done!