Hmm… This tea. I quite enjoyed it as part of the Advent Calendar, but for some reason the some I got as part of the Winter Sampler is much more heavy on the ‘trail mix’ and very light on the actual amount of tea. (The tins also don’t seal well, or really at all, which is disappointing.)
It’s very apple pie esque, except heavier on the spice. When it brews to a pretty medium depth, even when I completely forgot about it and it brewed for a half hr. The scent is pretty sweet on the first steep, and only a bit less so on the 2nd. I associate Baklava with super sweet flaky pastry, and the first steep is definitely following that heavy sweet note, I like the 2nd steep more.
The taste is really kind of muddled. The after-taste is a little reminiscent of black tea, but diluted. In the midst of the steep though, I taste a bit of sourness, which is kind of like cooking apples. If you’ve ever had cooking apples, you know they’re not especially pleasant in the raw. The sourness of the sip accompanied with the sweet bakery scent is a bit This tea might be better if I added sweetener, but I am really trying to avoid sweetening my teas.
Overall, it is not a bad tea, it’s just not really as expected.
“Muddled” is the perfect word for this tea!