Rio Bravo

Vacation teas! Just got back from 17 days in The Azores, and I was fortunate enough to try several loose leaf and bagged teas from the islands and from mainland Portugal while I was there.

This is the basic breakfast black tea we bought at the grocery store.

It’s good, nothing to write home about. Tastes like a simple, solid, black tea. Definitely different from the Asian black tea I am used to. Tastes more… tropical. If that makes sense.

Then again, when sipping the morning tea on a balcony over looking the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, of course it tastes good!