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drank Florence by Harney & Sons
218 tasting notes

Oh well, I knew from the aroma this wouldn’t be my kind of tea. I could just smell this sour note that is supposed to be chocolate (or hazelnut) but is not. Nut flavors are really difficult to pull off, it seems. It was okay, not too weak, but the flavor was generally not my thing. It would be kind of stretched to claim there’s chocolate and nuts in there, anyway. I only have a sample of it, so I will just polish it off and that’s that. I won’t be getting it again.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Cheri

I pulled some of this to try from the TTB C round 2. It doesn’t look like that’s where you got yours, though. Is it a fresh sample, or possibly older? Nuts don’t keep long, but it doesn’t look like there are actually nuts in it, but maybe the oil? I don’t know.

Kat_Maria

It’s a sample I ordered from H&S among others. I think it is just me not digging that kind of flavor. I came across it in other teas, too. I think it is the chocolate flavoring that doesn’t work for me. I actually have a sample of H&S’s “Chocolate”, so we will see how that one goes.

ohfancythat

I have to agree on this one. I wanted to love it but was disappointed

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Cheri

I pulled some of this to try from the TTB C round 2. It doesn’t look like that’s where you got yours, though. Is it a fresh sample, or possibly older? Nuts don’t keep long, but it doesn’t look like there are actually nuts in it, but maybe the oil? I don’t know.

Kat_Maria

It’s a sample I ordered from H&S among others. I think it is just me not digging that kind of flavor. I came across it in other teas, too. I think it is the chocolate flavoring that doesn’t work for me. I actually have a sample of H&S’s “Chocolate”, so we will see how that one goes.

ohfancythat

I have to agree on this one. I wanted to love it but was disappointed

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I started drinking tea when I was a teenager, my dad used to make tea a million times a day as it was (and still is!) good for his health. So he would make it for the entire family. Usually it was Lipton with a teaspoon of sugar per cup and a slice of lemon. I was fond of it made this way then a lot.

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