Frost Flower (Frostblomma)

Nabo 2022 Advent Day 5: Frostblomma

This one has not been my favourite so far. Contrary to Cameron I made a teapot of this and used ~600 mL. Reading her note, I can say I’m quite happy with that choice. The mint was still the main flavour with some sort of fruity hint as well. There was an almost menthol-like experience with the mint here where it really filled the mouth.

Nabo Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 5

Not much tea in the sample today! Very fluffy leaves and not too many of them, so I made an 8-ounce cup.

I think this is supposed to be a sort of winterberry flavor profile, but the mint flavor is very strong, and it overpowers everything else. It sits somewhere between candy cane sort of peppermint and Vicks Vaporub. I do get a little bit of fruitiness in the background, strawberry maybe? Not sure about the tonka bean, that’s supposed to be similar to vanilla, right? There is a tiny bit of creaminess maybe. And I think I’m getting some mineral marine notes from the green tea as well.

It’s fine, but could’ve been so much better if it were more balanced.

Somehow I don’t know how to rate this one. I enjoyed it, however something is lacking here for me.

The base is nice. Even they used such small tea wrappers (regular size, but with loose leaf), they managed to bring a few big pieces. Flavour-wise it is round, nothing distinctive from it. But then the expected flavour — well it contains peppermint aroma; I wonder why not peppermint itself, but it gives interesting and good refreshing feel, like the exhausted air after chewing gum or mouthwash, with slight, but sadly not noticeable fruit line. I was trying to found out what is it, but I wasn’t able to. Maybe the other two will be more sucessful?
The fruit flavour is nice, but as I wrote, I haven’t found what is it. And the tea altogether brings me to think about wintergreen — but not sure if I even had it before in my cup, or it is just a relation in my brain between name and “some” English word.