My latest entry in the Sunday Tea and Books series is up!
I ended up making this iced by taking about 3-4 tsp of leaf and steeping it in 1 cup of hot water with a bit of sweetener for 4 minutes, then pouring the resulting tea over ice to make iced tea. It’s ludicrously hot and humid out, and iced tea seemed like the only reasonable option today.
The dry leaf smelled fruity and sweet, and this translates over into the brewed tea. It says online that this tea is a mix of white and green, and contains jasmine in addition to plum flavouring. The jasmine does a good job of merging with the other flavours here instead of being the star of the show.
However, I’m not getting plum when I smell and drink this tea. There’s a sense of juiciness and flowers that comes across when I drink it, along with some of the deeper bitterness of the tea (I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’m not a white tea person). Oddly enough, when it all comes together, I get notes of mint and of roses, with the roses being stronger.
This is a very feminine tea, I think. And when I think of roses, I think of one character in particular. I’ll give you a hint – this tea seems perfect for someone from A Game of Thrones.
Have a guess as to which character it could be? Well, my blog post reveals all: http://christinavasilevski.com/2014/06/sunday-tea-books-plum-blossom-white/
