Wrote this when Steepster was throwing a tantrum before my trip to Vancouver.
This tea smells like mulberry gummy candy, if they were to exist. I don’t detect any apricot, but I can already see why the West Coast crew chose this during the recent meet up because it smells very promising.
By the way, thanks to Heather for passing down a sample of this!
Brewed, the base gets a lot stronger than I was expecting, and even though I watched the steeping parameters, it’s a little on the astringent side. The creamy mulberry note really backed off, unfortunately. I was hoping for a berries and cream tea. I didn’t add any milk or cream. Perhaps I should have but too late for that since I just finished it. Not sure if I would buy more, but I’d be curious if further experimentation could result in the perfect steeping parameters, plus milk or cream, to thus yield the perfect berries ‘n’ cream tea.
all i can think of is “all around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel..the monkey stopped to pull up his socks…POP goes the weasel!”
Only thing I’ve had mulberries in was DAVIDsTEA’s Gold Rush and to me that blend tastes very much like liquid Werther’s caramel.
Mulberries are ridiculously sweet. I bought a bag of plain dried ones on a whim and can barely eat them. :)
The wet ones are sweet and juicy, though if not ripe they can be slightly tart. The trees can be really prolific. We shared one with a neighbour at one of the houses I lived in as a child.
LOL@ Sil…I remember that nursery rhyme.
I love mulberries…sweet and can have a touch of tartness with them…
I love apricot in tea, if it is a good apricot.
This tea sounds lovely to me :-)