This was my winter 2024 Tasting Lab. Gently woodsy and pleasantly sweet, the cinnamon bark isn’t enough to make it spicy, but is evident in the smell and adds a sweet note in each sip. I picked it to pair with the birch bark because that has a light ‘wintergreen’ spearminty sweetness.
There’s no flavouring in this tea, so the wintergreen and cinnamon are gentle, melding in with the slight smoke of the Keemun; Nepal brightens this with a nutty floral, and the Nilgiri adds good body, oaky without being bitter.
I liked how this turned out. Really turned out to be a pleasantly fragrant tea. My office at work is a mishmash of vintage and antique containers I pilfered from around the warehouse and repurposed to hold my test-batches, so I had to go looking to figure out where I stashed this one.
I was so tempted to get this but I think it came out right after I had just made an order ha ha. Maybe next year? :P