This will be an uncharacteristically short tasting note, because this is so nondescript. It both looks and smells good in the bag – nice big leaf with petals, vaguely sweetfruity scent.
In the cup, though, it just sort of… sits. Sure, there’s a vague fruitness about it, and a subtle vanilla I think people who are into that sort of thing would like, but then there’s also a slight burnt note I don’t like at all. I think it’s the tea base. The aftertaste is the best part of the sip, but no, this isn’t really for me. I don’t like fruity blacks much in the first place, but I will keep sampling, because there has to be one I enjoy.
Just not this one.
[Sample from the second round of the EU Travelling Box, spring 2014.]
Boiling, 3 min