I still haven’t looked up how to steep a black- and green-tea blend, so once again I split the difference. This one smells more green than black. I love the deep, rich colour of black tea; maybe it’s the addition of green or something else, I dunno, but the colour here is just straight-up brown: the brownest brown a tea ever did brown.
The flavour is hard to describe. I’ve been nyum-nyumming every sip, trying to get a feel for it, and I can’t. It has a pleasant enough flavour, but it feels two-dimensional. Nothing lingers, there’s no aftertaste—once I swallow, it’s just gone as if it were never there. This is only my second black-green blend; the other was also an Eastern Shore blend (whose name I forget) and I liked that one much better.