Ooo, I smell chocolate and rose from the dry leaf, which is one of my favorite flavor combinations! I even make my own rose cocoa powder…
Steeping, the tea smells very fudgy with sweet rose florals, but I’m also getting a bit of pepperiness in the aroma (a note I sometimes get from honeybush).
The chocolate flavor here, as I find in many teas, is a bit thin and artificial, so mostly I’m getting a rose honeybush with some underlying cocoa notes, rather than a nice chocolate rose profile (honestly, I feel like the last really good chocolate rose tea I had was 52Teas Chocolate Rose Truffle, and it was quite old… don’t imagine that one will get reblended since florals aren’t very popular, but damn did I love that tea!) I do, however, really like rose, so I’m not particularly bothered by a rose-heavy cup of honeybush… except that the peppery note I’m getting from this honeybush is very off-putting with these flavors. I have no idea if it’s just this particular honeybush, or something in the chocolate flavoring that is making it pop since I know I didn’t taste it in some of the previous honeybush teas…
A thicker, creamier, more pronounced chocolate flavor would probably help this cup a lot. As a floral fan, I’ll have no problem finishing this cuppa tonight, but I’ve certainly had better of this particular profile.
Flavors: Artificial, Chocolate, Cocoa, Floral, Pepper, Rose
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Sounds okay, bit disappointing…
1. Somehow it must be difficult to make a good chocolate tea.
2. 52teas obviously uses some kind of magic.
Have you tried the rose teas from Teavivre? They’re good!
oh wait, maybe they don’t have them anymore..
I like rose teas in general, but the TeaVivre ones still wouldn’t specifically be chocolate rose teas…
My main beef with TeaVivre is they are another one of those “have to order in a ridiculously huge amount” sites, so unless I can find a wholesaler of them that sells their teas in smaller quantities, I just don’t do business with them.
Mastress Alita, you’re right that 100 grams, which is Teavivre’s minimum quantity for most of their teas, is a lot. At least they offer samples and sell their pricier teas in 50 g increments. I basically just get teas I know I like.
BTW, their Rose Dian Hong was good, though I don’t remember it having chocolate notes.
Ya, I refuse to do business with shops that sell 100g minimum. That is just way too much tea for me, in a one person household. It doesn’t matter how much I like it, it would just lose its flavor and taste like crap before I’d ever come close to hitting the bottom of the bag. So unless I can find their teas being sold by a different shop in 50g or 25g sizes, it just isn’t feasible for me.
Same here Mastress Alita, I can finish 50 grams, or 25 grams. 100 g for special teas I really find out liking.
Mastress Alita, I agree that smaller amounts of tea are definitely better. I’ve been working on a couple 100 g bags for years now.
I miss it when companies did 10 gram samples.
Daylon, so do I. Those samples let me take risks on teas I wouldn’t have bought otherwise.
Ditto. If I actually want a stash of tea, I usually want 25-50g. If I’ve never tried a tea, I don’t even want to have to grab that much just to sample it. So many companies that I know used to offer samplers have axed them, and it makes me sad.
Sounds okay, bit disappointing…
1. Somehow it must be difficult to make a good chocolate tea.
2. 52teas obviously uses some kind of magic.
Have you tried the rose teas from Teavivre? They’re good!
oh wait, maybe they don’t have them anymore..
I like rose teas in general, but the TeaVivre ones still wouldn’t specifically be chocolate rose teas…
My main beef with TeaVivre is they are another one of those “have to order in a ridiculously huge amount” sites, so unless I can find a wholesaler of them that sells their teas in smaller quantities, I just don’t do business with them.
Mastress Alita, you’re right that 100 grams, which is Teavivre’s minimum quantity for most of their teas, is a lot. At least they offer samples and sell their pricier teas in 50 g increments. I basically just get teas I know I like.
BTW, their Rose Dian Hong was good, though I don’t remember it having chocolate notes.
Ya, I refuse to do business with shops that sell 100g minimum. That is just way too much tea for me, in a one person household. It doesn’t matter how much I like it, it would just lose its flavor and taste like crap before I’d ever come close to hitting the bottom of the bag. So unless I can find their teas being sold by a different shop in 50g or 25g sizes, it just isn’t feasible for me.
Same here Mastress Alita, I can finish 50 grams, or 25 grams. 100 g for special teas I really find out liking.
Mastress Alita, I agree that smaller amounts of tea are definitely better. I’ve been working on a couple 100 g bags for years now.
I miss it when companies did 10 gram samples.
Daylon, so do I. Those samples let me take risks on teas I wouldn’t have bought otherwise.
Ditto. If I actually want a stash of tea, I usually want 25-50g. If I’ve never tried a tea, I don’t even want to have to grab that much just to sample it. So many companies that I know used to offer samplers have axed them, and it makes me sad.