This is my other lovely sample to see how Teabox performs with their blends. And the description of it was spot on. The smell is pleasantly headed by the cardamom then followed by rose. I couldn’t help but think of Turkish coffee, which is one of my preferred desserts. The taste is oddly creamy for a black tea, but possessing the kind of briskness you’d get with an Earl Grey. Instead of bergamot though, cardamom follows. The black tea itself has a little bit of a cocoa note, but more cocoa than malt which is a bit unusual.Still tastes like black tea.
Yes, I recommend a try of this if you know the ingredients and like them. It is more on the sweet side than spicy, so it can potentially make a good dessert tea or perhaps an everyday tea. Like one reviewer said on the Teabox website, this is the kind of tea that would cater to an Earl Grey lover. It’s also a fainter black tea making it more appealing for maybe someone just introduced to tea, a green tea drinker, and definitely an oolong drinker and white tea drinker.
My main criticism is that it was weak for the teaspoon I used. The first steep was strong, but the second one was a fainter version of the first. Good, but I’d grab it on discount. $21.50 is a little much for a hundred grams of this.
And this had clove and high caffeine before? My bag says different. Weird.
Flavors: Cardamom, Cocoa, Rose, Sweet
