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Becoming a Favorite. |
6/22/2021 |
| Tried this tea about a year ago but then it was not available for my last one or two orders. I persisted, and find it is every bit as I remembered it: appealing dry leaves, scented slightly like apricot, but with a little citrus too, like orange. It brews to a pretty, dark red-brown. "Burnt sienna" I'd venture. It could be an all-day standard, if didn't have to compete with my other S&V favorites. |
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7/6/2020 |
| There was a little bitterness, which I fixed with some sugar. It’s quite pleasant! I often add milk to black tea, but I didn’t need to for this one. I prefer other S&V black teas, but this one was good also. |
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An amazingly complex and delicious tea for a great price! |
10/22/2018 |
| Okay, this tea is insanely delicious. It tastes like a very expensive cup of tea and it definitely is not expensive from S&V. Wow. Just the complexity alone amazes me, and I will not be able to capture that complexity here. The fragrance of the dry leaves is something very different from the usual plain black tea, that I have not noticed before.. the smell is almost like what heated raisins might smell like? A fragrance I've never noticed in any tea! The leaf is on the smaller size with an occasional gold hint here and there. The flavor is intoxicating: I think it's most similar to a really good assam: that slightly brisk, slightly fruity, sweet assam that I love to keep in stock. But this tea is more unique than that. It's just so tough to capture the complexity of this tea. It has bite, but it's also very sweet. Slight fruity juiciness but also a bready quality. I love teas like that and I will be keeping this one in stock. It might be one of those teas that are the fresher, the more complex the flavor (but that probably goes for all teas.) Is it enough for me to say it is so good? You should try some!
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons for a full mug// 13 minutes after boiling // 3 1/2 minute steep
Steep #2 // couple minutes after boiling // 4 minute steep |
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