This was a gift from the extensive and famous Teaequalsbliss collection, and I was grateful to try it!
Steeped the recommended 5 minutes, this is dark, almost ebony, and rich and thick. There’s not a bit of fruit in it, but it made me hold my tongue the same way I would if I was eating a bowl of black cherries. A very good black tea with subtleties you wouldn’t want to miss by having it too early in the morning.
…unless your early morning cup is the second steep. Pretty thin and not nearly as interesting. One-shot wonder.
I didn’t go for a second steep but thought the first was really good, bag or no bag.