Today is quite the daunting tasting note day – first I take on Tribute, and now this? In this case, however, we can just go ahead and blame my complete lack of interest in plain blacks. There is exactly one such previous review by me, namely this one: http://gluttonette.com/?p=293h So I suppose I could have just left this …
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Tea score: 30
Pu-Ehr Orange (EP08) – Nothing But Tea
This one was an easy swap pick – I wanted to try some more flavoured pu’erhs, and this had that good old, bad old pu’erh smell. I didn’t get much orange then and still don’t, but it’s clear that some kind of flavouring is at play, rather than this being a straight-up pu’erh. It brews …
Almond Tea – A.C. Perch’s
I am completely confused by this tea. Picking it out blindly (see my note on Vanilla from Fru P) I thought it was a pu’erh, or something along those lines – it definitely didn’t smell like almond, or even bitter almond. So imagine my surprise when I read the label and realized it was ACP’s …
Rooibos Tropica – Teavana
Oh! Oh! Oh! So I cold-steeped the last of this. Unholy artificial citrus horror would sum it up quite well. I’m dropping this from an indifferent 55 to a near-objectionable 30 for the sheer offensiveness that is Rooibos Tropica iced. Why not lower? Because paired with these citrusy, almondy cantucci I’m having, it’s beautiful. My …