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“Adventageddon Day 1 This was the most surprising tea out of today’s selections! Inoki Bathhouse is my “new to me” tea company, but honestly to call them a tea company is maybe kind of incorrect?...” Read full tasting note
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Adventageddon Day 1
This was the most surprising tea out of today’s selections!
Inoki Bathhouse is my “new to me” tea company, but honestly to call them a tea company is maybe kind of incorrect? What they really specialize is different bathing products inspired by different spa experiences and traditions around the world. Namely bath soaks – the majority of which contain tea as one of the ingredients. This advent is really their first time selling tea for consumption. I actually found them because when I was doing my advent selections for the year I started AGGRESIVELY getting targeted ads for their advent. It was a little on the steeper side (pun intended) price wise, but because it checked off two boxes (straight/gongfu appropriate teas and a company I’ve not tried before) on my yearly advent “wish list” I thought I’d give them a shot.
I definitely rolled my eyes a bit when I saw this tisane as day one, though. Not because I think it’s a bad inclusion or anything like that. It actually makes a TON of sense given their usual product type. I just don’t personally tend to ever really enjoy the taste of pure chrysanthemum outside of my notorious love of snow chrysanthemum, which is entirely different. But I never skip an advent tea, so I popped one of the admittedly STUNNING flowers into a teacup and gave it a shot with as open a mind as I could. Honestly? Yeah, I ate crow on this one.
Not only was this absolutely gorgeous, which you can see in my photo (the light is bouncing PERFECTLY off the flowers), but it was actually really nice tasting too. Definitely the nicest cup of straight chrysanthemum that I’ve ever made. Still not, like, an immediate favourite but I thought it was flavourful without being aggressive and I liked the gentle peppery top notes against the headier and slightly buttery florals. I even resteeped it, which is a high compliment if I do say so myself. So, I see you Inoki Bathhouse and I’m verrrryyy intrigued to see what else this advent has to offer!
Today’s Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDDUEFtyMDA/?img_index=1
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwRr_daYJ8&ab_channel=GoldieBoutilier
The picture is stunning and TIL idiom “eating crow” :)