1908 Tasting Notes
This is a good substitute for dessert, being quite sweet-flavoured with no extra sugar added to it. I’ve loved marzipan ever since I was a little girl when my mother would take me to the local pastry shop. I’m so glad to have found a tea that satisfies my craving for that wonderful delight. :D
Preparation
I steeped this a bit longer than I normally do and I’m noticing a nutty flavour coming out of the background – not unlike the one I get from Angrboda’s Pai Mu Dan that she sent me. LOL, it’s making me ridiculously proud that my sense of taste is becoming well-developped enough to pick out what variety of tea is in a blend. :D
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This evening I went to watch the Olympic Torch as is passed through my city on its way back to Vancouver. It was a fantastic experience and good times all around. It was also freezing cold outside and when it was over I needed something to warm my hands and and my stomach so I got this at Starbucks. This one tasted a bit like apple cider actually – vanilla-flavoured apple cider with milk. I’m thinking that’s the rooibos talking, the sneaky little bugger.
;)
I brewed up quite a dark cup of this tea, intending to have it with milk. Unfortunately I opened the fridge and- le gaspeth no milk.
And this tea i wicked strong without it – I’m half thinking of pouring it down the drain and starting over. :(
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Jillian, five minutes is a tad too long a steep for a Darjeeling, especially a first flush Darjeeling. I’ll bet it was strong, and probably really tannic. The five-minute rule for black teas kinda doesn’t hold up for Darjeelings. Try giving it a two-minute steep and see how it tastes. Margaret’s Hope is a pretty good estate, although the challenge with buying single-estate teas is that some years are better than others, but it shouldn’t taste too strong or really need milk if it’s steeped right. I’d be curious if you don’t like it better the second time around with a shorter stew.
Thank for the advice Rob. I don’t normally steep it quite that long but I wanted to added milk just to see how it would make the tea taste, so I deliberatly over-steeped. :)
Both of the Vykasa teas I’ve tried have been tea-fail to one degree or another, but of the two I prefer this one. It’s not a bad tea I suppose, if you like mint with a black-green tea blend – I just wish I could actually taste the other (purported) flavours.
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Well that’s it for this tea. * sad-puppy face*
I love how no matter how long you steep this tea it never gets the bitter, over-steeped taste that tea does. I’ll definitely be looking around for more good honeybush teas in the future.
Preparation
Angrboda mentioned that she was picking up walnut notes in this tea and I can sort of see what she means, there’s definitely a nutty quality to it. But to me it doesn’t taste nearly as astringent as walnuts do (which I’m not a fan of anyway, so that’s a plus) and there’s also a bit of sweetness at the tail end of things.
I’m also getting some notes that I can only describe as ‘green’ in the middle of each sip. It’s not a grassy or strongly vegetale taste like green teas, it’s…argh I don’t know how to describe it. I think my tea vocabulary is a little lacking. :D
Preparation
I swiped a packet to try when I was over at my parents’ house a couple weeks ago. Basically what it is is a little pouch of flavoured tea concentrate and you add it to water and stir – voila, instant (sweet) iced-tea.
I didn’t really have high hopes for this, but it turned out surpringly decent. It’s lightly sweet but not overpowering and not artifical-tasting. It actual tastes more like apples than pomegranate, the flavour crisp and refreshing.
I’d buy it – maybe not now, but in the summer when my iced-tea consumption goes way up. :D
