Pulled this one out of the GCTTB 4. The smell made me super curious.
This bag in the TTB was labelled as The Urban Tea Merchant but any time I google that it brings me back to TWG so I hope this is the right place.
The tea smells like vanilla and smokey spice.
The brewed tea is quite creamy. Is is a great blend of green and black teas. I find sometimes that works great and sometimes it goes really bad. There is flavours of vanilla, orange rind, and some other spices I can’t quite place. It very much reminds me of a Christmas blend but not so Christmassy. Sometimes I think cinnamon, then no, and sometimes I think tamarind, then no. It’s weird , but delicious at the same time.
Quite like this one. Not sure if I would call it a breakfast blend. To me is more of an afternoon tea but I guess that is debatable.
Urban Tea Merchant is the name of a fancy teahouse in Vancouver and TWG is the brand they currently stock and serve (they’ve changed suppliers from time to time – a few years ago their tea was from The O Dor).