I’m tasting the spring 2017 harvest of this tea. This is going to be a short note, because this tea just didn’t work for me, which is disappointing because the smell got my hopes up.
I brewed six rounds from 10 seconds to 90 seconds
The aroma of the wet leaves is rich with smoke, peat, rum, and fresh gingerbread. The flavors in the first infusions are fruity like dragonfruit and raspberry with a somewhat unpleasant burned bread hint.
On the third infusion the burned taste is gone and I’m left with a somehow underwhelming chocolate, raspberry, and mint flavor. These are flavors I’ve loved in teas before, but something about them is just off and uninspiring in this. The upshot is there’s a pleasant tingling on my tongue at the end of the cups.
The last three steepings are all the same — sweet cream, vanilla, and burnt sugar. Again, flavors I’ve enjoyed before but they’re really flat and uninspiring in this tea.
In the future I’ll play around with leafing heavier than recommended, but right now I’m thoroughly unenthused by this tea.
Flavors: Bread, Burnt, Burnt Sugar, Cream, Fruity, Mint, Peat, Raspberry, Rum, Smoke, Spices, Vanilla
