Uhm, nom. This smells delicious in the bag, like a bamboo caramel fruit cup (although I have a feeling that particular flavor combination wouldn’t exactly fly out of the fruit cup aisle).
I kind of adore this, although I steeped it very sloppily, so it might just be a happy mistake. I mainly get bamboo and pineapple – a big, bold, juicy mid-mouth bamboo-pineapple, no drably elusive aftertaste phantasm.
Now I really want to try this iced. And also see if I can tease a few more fruit notes out of it with a longer steeping time.
[Sample gifted by my sweet friend T, October 2013.]
80 C, 3 min