First tea I’m cracking into from Steep Me A Cup Of Tea!
This was the tea store we looked at in Fargo; I grabbed a lot of things to try out from them too – eight different teas. I liked the store a lot; the owner did all of his blending in store and was really welcoming/friendly. I know I definitely talked more about it in a previous tasting note – but I just wanted to reinforce the fact that I had such a good experience shopping there. I really, really hope that I enjoy a decent portion of what I picked up.
I think this was the only black tea I picked up; it was one that I wouldn’t have thought I’d enjoy based on the description but when I got a chance to smell it in store was delightfully surprised by it. The dry aroma is very sweet/creamy with a tender raspberry aroma to it, not unlike the buttery raspberry quality you’d get from a strudel/danish. Or cheesecake too, I suppose.
My first tasting was in my tea press with some added in milk to give that cheesecake element a bit of a fighting chance/helping hand. So many people struggle to do cheesecake teas well; I really want this one to do it justice. I will say that I really enjoyed the flavour and I can loosely see cheesecake notes there because there was a bit of a tangyness to it, but I felt like I was mostly getting the tang from the raspberry notes. So it more so gave me the impression of like a raspberry or even more of a mixed berry sort of flavoured/scented yogurt? With a bit of a buttery undertone as well.
I’m not disappointed though in terms of flavour even if I don’t think it was 100% dead on. It’s certainly not the biggest swing and a miss I’ve ever seen for cheesecake teas either and the rest of the flavour was good! I don’t foresee issues finishing this off, and I think it is a good creamy/dessert flavour with soft fruit notes which is something I’m into.
Flavors: Berry, Butter, Creamy, Raspberry, Yogurt
