I’m back again! I didn’t abandon tea or anything, I just found myself in the inevitable part of the “liking tea whilst not rich” experience where I ran out of most of what I had and needed my money for other things.
This is a really interesting black tea. I love teas with spices in them (weirdly enough, since I’m not a huge fan of chai), and this has just enough different tastes in there not to taste like basically every other straight black tea I’ve ever had.
I’m really blown away by the number of smells and flavors I’ve gotten from different stages in its preparation! Like, I’m really bad at distinguishing interplaying flavors in tea, but they’re all both really obvious and not overpowering. The leaves smelled mostly like mint and clove (a LOT of clove, but not too much) in the packet. The prepared tea basically just smells like delicious honey with some cinnamon and maybe a little mint. And the taste is kind of earthy with a mint kick and every once in a while there’s a little cinnamon at the end.
It’s just such a cool tea! I wish I had more than a sample. I’ll probably get more come fall.
Flavors: Cinnamon, Cloves, Earth, Honey
