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drank Ginger & Apricot by Liran
1944 tasting notes

On tea wrapper design, there is a cantaloupe melon and ginger. Nothing telling Apricot to me, but the text. Seeing only again flavours in and not actual things in makes me again very sad. Steeps rapidly.

I did only 3 minutes steep (there is suggested 3-5 minutes), but after 3 minutes I received a mug of very dark opaque oily liquor. It isn’t inviting to drink at all and honestly, it doesn’t taste good either. It stains my mug a lot as well.

It’s flat black tea, a lot of tannins in, and flavouring? Nope. Very, very weakly ginger. Apricot? Some fruitiness is there, but not sure if it is that apricot or cantaloupe. Not a similar flavour, but because of that tannic base I could not decide what I am actually tasting!

Not worth trying again/ordering. Just a weird cup.

I wonder, if you are even interested in notes of those small (probably) brands that you probably never try, because they aren’t distributed world-wide and sometimes it is very limited offer?

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 8 OZ / 250 ML
Leafhopper

It’s fun reading your tasting notes even if I’ll never get to try the tea.

Michelle

Sometimes a tasting note is to signal what not to drink again. I like reading about different or even similar tea from other countries.

Martin Bednář

Thank you for your point of view Leafhopper and Michelle. I will keep posting them now and then.

tea-sipper

I definitely like to read about the unknown brands!

Martin Bednář

Great tea-sipper. I wonder if you check them out somehow or not… but I like your curiosity. Being a curious person myself…

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Leafhopper

It’s fun reading your tasting notes even if I’ll never get to try the tea.

Michelle

Sometimes a tasting note is to signal what not to drink again. I like reading about different or even similar tea from other countries.

Martin Bednář

Thank you for your point of view Leafhopper and Michelle. I will keep posting them now and then.

tea-sipper

I definitely like to read about the unknown brands!

Martin Bednář

Great tea-sipper. I wonder if you check them out somehow or not… but I like your curiosity. Being a curious person myself…

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I am drinking almost everything. Tea bag collector who moved to wonderful world of loose leaf.

Trying to rate differently tea bags and loose leaf as tea bags have usually worse quality.

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