In addition to Butiki’s Three Friends, this is the chocolate-orange tea I most often see on my dash, so I wanted to try it out.
The scent of the dry tea has a tang that balances precariously between candied orange peel and artificial orange – it can’t quite make up its mind. Brewed, it gains a dimension of chalkiness – I’d say this is a recurring problem with chocolate-flavored anything, but in this case it’s a little too present to be agreeable.
When it comes to the flavor, though, it’s surprisingly good at first – I would definitely eat this if it were a cakey or steamed pudding-y dessert. The chalkiness comes back in the aftertaste, however – not quite with a vengeance, but it’s undeniably there, accompanied by the half-candied, half-artificial orange.
For the second time today, hence, I conclude that chocolate teas aren’t really for me.
[Sample from the second round of the EU Travelling Box, spring 2014.]
Boiling, 3 min