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“Sipdown no. 97 of the year 2014. A sample. The name leads me to believe this will have a passion fruit flavor, though there’s nothing in the ingredients (or even the tea description) that says...” Read full tasting note
“Something sweet and light for this afternoon…a harbinger of spring? Perhaps…” Read full tasting note
This passionately flavorful blend combines black tea, flower petals and delicious fruit flavor creating a bold, refreshing brew that is perfect hot or iced.
Ingredients: Black tea, flavor, marigold petals, mallow pieces and safflower petals
Origin of Perfectly Passionate : Sri Lanka
Direct trade quality loose leaf tea for more than a decade. World Tea Championship winners in 2008 & 2009. USDA Certified Organic. Based in US with buying office in China.
Sipdown no. 97 of the year 2014. A sample.
The name leads me to believe this will have a passion fruit flavor, though there’s nothing in the ingredients (or even the tea description) that says so.
Out of the packet, the pretty blend of flower petals and tea does smell like passion fruit, or at least it smells like other passion fruit black teas I’ve had.
Steeped according to directions on the tiny sample.
There’s a fruity aroma to the tea, which steeps very dark. A really beautiful, reddish brown color. I want furniture this color.
The flavor is fruity as well, though the fruit represented isn’t tasting like passion fruit. It tastes a bit like grapes, a bit like berries. I can get a sort of a passion fruit flavor out of it if I concentrate.
The tea doesn’t represent itself to be passion fruit, so I can’t really fault it for giving only the barest suggestion of passion fruit. Once I take that bias out of the mix, I can enjoy it for a tasty fruity tea with notes of berry, grape and sometimes a fleeting bit of citrus. The black tea base is pretty astringent, but otherwise not very remarkable.
I’ve had better fruity teas, hence the rating. But this is tasty and I wouldn’t turn it down if offered.
