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3 min too long a steep for me. Try 2.5 min next time. Still, not ruined but prefer less bitter tea. I do love the additives in this. The flavors stay with you for a while after you drink it.

Decent cup of tea from a bag. I can detect a slight briskness I assume comes from Assam and I pick up the smell of Darjeeling that I am learning to enjoy. I can see experimenting this with two bags for tea lattes.

I love this. If you like cardamom and lemon (not lemon juice but a true lemon essence that you get from lemon myrtle); if you haven’t tried them together yet, you will be blown away how beautifully these flavours blend. Even if dessert flavours aren’t your cup of tea, beg, borrow or.. well not that bit – try to get a sample of this. If we are lucky, this will be reblended. For me, it’s up there with Sun and Cloud Mist. I have tried hard to dupe my blend of lemon myrtle, lemon verbena and lemon balm but it’s not easy to not have overpowering menthol flavours. Plus lemon myrtle is expensive. Get it all with this blend. Works for me.

Second try. I am over my initial disappointment with how my Numi tea order arrived so I do note sweet berry fragrance from the dry tea bag. I still cut open the paper bag and steep in my Breville tea basket even though some tiny leaves fall through. I did expect a better leaf grade since the website states Flowery Orange Pekoe. I assumed that meant a larger leaf size. I am keeping an open mind though. Especially since I have 97 bags to go.
I taste hibiscus only as if there was no tea. I don’t understand why I didn’t taste it before. Last brew and this, no berry flavour that was detected in the scent. Hmmm, I will figure out how to enjoy this but warning to people, you have to work to like it. Any one who wants to give Numi a fair go with a sample, I have copious amounts of eleven of their teas. I am not known to exercise caution. The web site description was so tantalizing!

It smells like caramel. Yum. The brew alternates between being an earl grey to a dessert tea with caramel sugar flavours. Not exactly cheesecake; more an homage to cheesecake essence. My reviews tend to give way to poetic sentiments when I can’t clearly transcribe what my tongue tastes. Just have to add, I finished the cup over ten minutes ago and my nose is still buried in my mug to inhale the lasting aroma which reminds me of creme brûlée.

No berry flavour at all. Other reviews report evidence of berry and hibiscus but I do not see anything other than brewed leaf. Hope Numi responds to my query if this is normal. Ack, I committed to a box of 100 and I didn’t even get a cardboard box with the original artwork which I really wanted to frame up since they are phasing out this artwork for another design.