Day 10 DavidsTea 24 Days of Tea advent calendar — Walnut Orange Scone. Interesting choice for today’s tea to be heavily nutty after Day 9 was also a very nutty tea. I think I would have preferred if they’d mixed it up a bit more and spaced these away from each other. But I’ll try to keep my feelings on the other from influencing my notes on this one.
As I’ve done with others from this advent calendar, I split the brew into two mugs & added milk to only one. The milk-less mug had a bit of a bitter aftertaste, but the milky version was much smoother, the bitterness was balanced out. So my recommendation is based on this addition. Without milk, I dunno if I’d serve this to anyone. And even with milk, you gotta like walnut for this tea to work, as it’s pretty notable. But anyone drinking a tea with walnut in the title who doesn’t like walnuts and blames the tea, well … you knew it was a snake when you picked it up.
The orange-ness is not as in your face as I thought it might be, it’s nicely balanced there: noticeable but not overpowering. I also kind of expected this tea to be quite sweet, but that was, pleasantly, not the case.
So, yes, I’m saying Recommended, but it’s a pretty mild, caveated one.
Flavors: Orange, Walnut
