Secret’s out!
This tea was made in collaboration with Youtubers, founder of Holo Taco, and DT Superfan Cristine Rotenburg – aka SimplyNailogical. What a long project in the making! We first started it back in 2019, with most of the development taking place in early 2020 right before the pandemic/lockdown. As a fan of Simply/Cristine myself, this was not only SUCH A HARD multi-year secret to keep but also just so fun to have a hand in developing this tea with/for her.
She made the whole process very easy because she came in with a clear idea of what her dream tea would be, and the rest was just fitting all of the pieces together to make it happen. The resulting blend is pretty rich and robust with a breakfast-style black tea base, some cozy and warming oats (added both for flavour and because it’s a bit of a channel inside joke) and then of coarse lots of real maple as well. She is Canadian, after all. It’s a sweet but not too sweet blend that leads with that almost “pancake breakfast” sort of maple flavour, but with the body to back it. Cristine drinks hers with oat milk, and I concur that it’s delicious when made that way!
If you love Maple Syrup Oolong, then I think this is a must try. They’re very similar in terms of sweetness level, type of maple, and just overall intensity. For fan’s of DT’s newer maple blend Manoomin Maple, this one is a little bit sweeter/richer and has a slightly more fruity undertone to it from the apple inclusion.
Flavour descriptions aside… Long before I worked at DT in R&D I was very much a superfan myself, so I can very strongly relate to the complete and utter joy of having the experience of creating your own tea blend for the first time. It’s still sometimes a surreal feeling that I get paid to do that because, really, it kind of never stops feeling like magic. So it was just incredibly cool to get to have a part in doing that for someone else!!
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBmSeEkyjOA/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vDgCzbDUs
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