My morning tea, chosen to go with my replacement adagio teapot which I didn’t think I would miss but ended up being devastated by it’s destruction.
The raw blend smells thickly of honey but it’s so sweet and thick it also reminds me of manure. Not the nicest smell I’ve had in my kitchen…
Once steeped the blend is a lot less like manure and more like pure honey, though also the rooibos is thickly behind it. In fact the rooibos may be the manure type smell.
Flavour is fairly mild with some sweetness though it doesn’t taste as much like honey as it smells. It does however, taste of rooibos rather strongly. The rooibos dies down to leave the honey flavour on the tongue in the after taste, though over time it becomes dry.
Overall I don’t think this tea is balanced particularly well, the rooibos dominates the honey in flavour and the honey that does remain becomes dry and unpleasant. This from a woman that adores honey and dislikes rooibos. At least I can drink it which says something.
Flavors: Drying, Honey, Rooibos
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I totally get the manure from this one. I haven’t even tried mine yet because the smell worries me so much.
Yikes, glad the manure didn’t show up in the flavour!
I decided to try it cold steeped which should be ready in a few hours, hopefully the manure will be erased from it!
Any news?
It was still manure like though it did tone it down a little.
I totally get the manure from this one. I haven’t even tried mine yet because the smell worries me so much.
Yikes, glad the manure didn’t show up in the flavour!
I decided to try it cold steeped which should be ready in a few hours, hopefully the manure will be erased from it!
Any news?
It was still manure like though it did tone it down a little.