S'mores Caramel Apple

Going through my cupboard last night, I found three bags of AQ2T in my white/oolong bin that I totally forgot I had. One was unopened. This brightened my night up significantly! Steeping this tea this morning… the cup smells like those chocolate covered gummy candies you get in a tube from Asian grocery stores! I love those things. I get that candied chocolate scent with fruit underneath. When I sip on this, the scent translates perfectly to flavor. The white tea base keeps it light and airy like the candy. The finish is more of the same. It looses a little bit of the magic as the cup cools which creates such a dilemma for me: sip as quickly as I want to or slowly to stretch out the cup, even if it means it’s slightly less delicious at the end. I would totally order more of this if possible and would probably go into hoarding mode since it keeps so well.

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Cracked into my little bag of this that I picked up a few months ago. If I recall correctly, this is one that Kittenna shared with me that I was feeling more on the fence about, but I really enjoyed this cup of it! It’s sweet, for sure, and there is a lot going on but I did genuinely feel like all five of the implied flavour notes from the tea name WERE present in the cup and that they worked together pretty well. It did have a bit of the floral undertone that seems to be a sort of “house taste” to a lot of AQ2T blends, especially the ones with her apple (and fruit in general) flavouring.

I’ll be keeping an eye on this one – especially for consistency in the infusions.