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Another cup of good-for-me tea down the hatch. /faux British accent ;)

This makes a great bedtime cuppa. I skipped the honey this time so the flavour was more ripe-berry than golden honey, but I love this tea in any form.

…Isn’t this supposed to be raspberry-flavoured? Because I’m not catching even a hint of it in the flavour. As a straight earl grey it isn’t half-bad; the tea base isn’t too heavy or astringent and the bergamot isn’t too overwhelming or bitter.

But I still feel like demanding my money back. I wanted raspberry damnit!

Backlogging from this morning:
The vendor told me what’s in this tea blend but unfortunately I see to have forgotten it all. I’m catching a slight vanilla scent in the dry leaves mixed with what I think of as the standard tea smell.

Taste-wise it was light but at the same time rather astringent, so I’m thinking maybe darjeeling or a nepalese tea might be involved. I’ll experiment with it, but so far I’m feel rather ‘meh’ about it.

After all the over-indulging I’ve done during the holidays, a bit of Detoxing might not be a bad thing.

I tried this with milk this evening which complimented the tea quite well and gave it a sort of burnt-hazelnut cream flavour. Very yum.

My breakfast tea. There really isn’t much to say about this tea that hasn’t been said already. :)

The scent of this tea is quite floral, I can smell it across the (albit rather small) kitchen, almost as though it’s a bouquet of fresh flowers rather than a cup of tea.

The flavour carries strong floral hints aswell, but there’s also a bit of a light, cooked fruit flavour aswell. It’s very light and smooth on the tongue with no astringency that I can find.

I’m so in love with my new tea strainer right now. This is one of the finer-textured teas in my cabinet so before I’d always ended up with a thick layer of ‘sludge’ on the bottom of my cup. No more! Now I can enjoy its toasted herbal nutty goodness without spending half an hour picking leaf bits out of my teeth afterwards. :D

I got this as part of a tea trade with oOTeaOo (thank you!). I have to say that it’s a distinctly ‘herbal’ herbal tea. The scent is mainly of chamomile with some lavender tucked underneath and the taste is, again, mostly of chamomile, with a rather herb-y-tasting background.