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Backlog: I finished a cup of this about an hour or so ago, and I absolutely loved it. My full-length review of it will be publishing in a few hours on SororiTea Sisters.
Sweet strawberry flavor with a tingly, tart aftertaste, and a smooth chocolate overtone. Very, very good.
The price is hard to pass, I forgot how much I paid, but it was a great price for Ti Kuan Yin. It’s doesn’t have the depth as the teas with a heftier price tag. But drinkable. A little musky, golden brew. I don’t think I would buy, but it’s still good. If you are in a pinch, makes a good iced tea.
I feel this black tea is very astringent, I never use boiling water to brew. It’s a good cream earl grey. I was spoiled by having another, so I compared it to that. I drank it with rice milk and sugar. Very tasty treat. Served it over ice, too. Though I feel I need sugar with it, so I won’t drink it much.
Preparation
My partner is going to be jealous that I’m trying this one without her!
This is my first log from the huuuge variety of teas that I got from LiberTEAs, and one that I knew I’d enjoy as soon as I opened the package to have a sniff… Mmmm.
This tastes more nutty and caramel-y than chocolatey to me, which is not what I expected from the smell, but still very enjoyable. I decided to try this one out instead of drinking hot chocolate – the snow is coming down like crazy – and it’s definitely a suitable replacement. Warm and sweet and soothing. I’m glad I brewed enough for a big mugful.
Thanks Liberteas for a packet of this one!
Dry Aroma:
As my grandfather used to say…“Makes the nose hairs DANCE”. The chai spices are INTENSE!!!!!
It’s quite interesting to look at! Lots of ingredients! I didn’t see any green sprinkles but I have orange and black character sugar-sprinkles.
This infuses to a very odd color…a black cloudy DARK color…I’m thinking the cloudy is due to the spices AND the sprinkle-candies.
Once infused the aroma does change quite a bit! It’s a pumpkin-candy-spice-earthy-mixture of aromas!
My first sip – I had no idea what to expect! Glad I didn’t assume or prejudge!
The spices are the first thing (and the last thing) I taste and they are strong but not as CRAZY INTENSE as the dry aroma led me to believe they were going to be. Appreciated! Then…comes the pumpkin! It’s a squashy-meaty type pumpkin like in soup or stuffed squash – very natural tasting…not sweet per-say but almost malty or maybe velvety would be a better word. In the middle of the sip I could taste the candy-notes but it fades away and the spice and pumpkin pop back into play! This is very interesting. Pretty strong but I like that! I recognize the fact that a lot of creativeness went into this one! It’s a fun one, indeed!
Pretty tasty! I wasn’t sure what the aftertaste would be like but after almost a whole cup it’s quite nice…nothing funky lingers…perhaps some of the spices like ginger…but the aftertaste is much better than I expected.
This is a really pleasant Yunnan. A good one for those who might find other Yunnan teas to be a tad too smoky or peppery, this one is more of a mellow, easy-going kind of Yunnan. It does have smoky and peppery notes, but, they aren’t as pronounced with this cup.
I like this. It is a more seamless kind of Yunnan, with the qualities I’ve come to expect from Yunnan but delivered in a smoother way. Nice.
Oooooooo! Special thanks to LiberTEAs for this one!
The aroma is AMAZING! It reminds me of a spiced wine I had a while back! Ahh!
It’s lighter in color – once infused – than I thought it would be and the aroma weakens once infused but is still present and delightful.
The taste is very different from any flavored tea I have had thus far! I LOVE a tea that makes me think and this is certainly one of them.
The black tea base is mellower and the sugary-goodness shines nicely. I can certainly taste the plum and the spices. I would say the plum is stronger than the spice tho. They match up and pair very well together tho. There is a lingering sugary-sweetness that I LOVE.
Yes…it’s very reminiscent of that spiced wine I remember – what a treat – and a trip down memory lane!
I FINALLY have a Lapsang back in my cuboard! I have definitely missed the smokiness. This version is serviceable but not as smoky as I was expecting based on the intense bacon/jerky aroma. I will gladly drink the rest of this package because it does nip the smoky craving, but will most likely return to Upton’s Lapsang Souchong Black Dragon after this package is gone.
This is a very good Keemun. It has a nice depth of flavor that ranges from a warm, yeasty baked bread kind of flavor, to a hint of earthiness and leather, and then there is this smoked, aged wood sort of flavor that you’d expect from an aged liquor. I don’t really have much experience with liquor, so, I don’t know what that would taste like, exactly, but this is what I would think it would have … like something that has been cured and smoked and aged with care.
A good, stout Keemun. Not as smoky as some I’ve tried, but then again, a bit smokier than some others… I would think that this would make a fine Keemun for those who are less familiar with some of the nuances of Keemun, to get them acquainted with the various profiles that Keemun has to offer.
YUM! This is so good. It is warm and inviting. I haven’t had a real Sugar Plum before (as described on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_plum) but this does remind me quite a bit of a sugar plum candy I discovered a few years ago that was a bit like a plum flavored jelly candy that had been dredged in sugar. It was really yummy, and I think I must have stopped in to that little old time candy shop at least three times that year to buy more of them.
Anyway… The cinnamon here makes this tea just a little different from that confection, the cinnamon is warm and sweet, and reminds me a bit of the flavor of cinnamon-sugar that you’d sprinkle on toast… warm, but not too spicy, and pleasantly sweet.
This is really good. Certainly getting me in the holiday spirit!
Drinking the last that I have of this tonight. It has such a lovely flavor, and really does remind me of warm peppermint schnapps. It’s been a long while since I’ve actually had peppermint schnapps, but, this is what I remember it tasting like … only it’s warm and that adds to the yummy factor as well as the comforting factor. Very soothing, and I won’t pass out after I’ve finished my cup!
I think that is what this tea reminds me of too: peppermint schnapps. It’s been awhile for me too, but back in the day when I enjoyed a cordial or two, I really liked it. How great to enjoy that same flavor now in a tea! I have to say I’m pretty impressed with Culinary’s teas.
Wow! This tea is astonishingly good. Much better than I anticipated it being.
The peppermint here is really crisp and strong, as though the brandy notes are pushing the peppermint into the limelight. But it doesn’t taste like the typical peppermint tea … thanks to the presence of the brandy. The brandy is interesting in this blend. It makes its presence known throughout the sip, but it never really dominates. An interesting play between flavors with this cup. Interesting and very good.
Strong is good, mmmmm :)