Perfect for a refreshing morning/mid-afternoon brew! Bold and bright.
Gone Western. 2 tsp/8oz/200F. 3 steeps at 3/5/8 minutes.
Dry leaf is various shades of dark browns to black, twisty, shiny and hard. Some leaves look slightly powdery. Smells like pure, bright fruit stone fruit and muscatel, lightly pungent.
Over the course of the three steeps, I got mostly baked apricot, muscatel, woodiness, warm spice, light orange- and rosewater. Pleasant astringency. Thinned out nicely. Red-amber liquor turning to gold-amber. Flavors don’t really stick around making for a nice, clean quaff. Did I really just say quaff. Very aromatic.
Spent leaves large, sturdy, quite narrow. Found a few that were longer than my middle finger.
Yum :) Thanks for the sample.
