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I’m a little obsessed with cardamom. I’ve been making cardamom ice cream and sampling different chais trying to find one with enough cardamom, so I was very excited for this.

This is straight up cardamom and black. No other notes that I’m detecting, and surprisingly dry on its own. I associate cardamom with sweet and creamy flavours (or some savoury dishes), and so I think my palette was a bit surprised by how this tasted.

With a bit of milk and sugar though, this is bliss. It’s going down a little too easy and I’m almost to the bottom of my cup already. It’s satisfying my cardamom craving very nicely.

I steeped this for four minutes, but I think for my next cup I will just steep the hell out of it, like I usually do with teas that I plan to add milk and sugar to. Get all that cardamom deliciousness into my cup.

Thanks so much to Dexter for sending me this sample!

Flavors: Bitter, Cardamom, Malt

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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