The dry tea smells absolutely gorgeous. There’s fruit with a kick of sweetness, followed by that characteristic sea-buckthorn tea scent that’s so hard to characterize.
(The wet tea leaves smell like waterlogged puffed rice!)
In the cup, the scent is more vegetal than sweet, again in the typical manner of sea-buckthorn brews. The sweet fruity notes return to some degree in the aftertaste, but there’s a surprising amount of astringency.
[Purchased at Bönor & blad in Uppsala, August 2013.]
90 C, 1 min 30