Skylark -An SJ Tucker Blend-

I found a box of tea from Dryad. Checking their website, it looks like I placed my order nearly two years ago.

Oops?

I’ll try to be less critical, since it could be that it’d be better if it were fresh.

Then again, maybe it’ll work in a blend’s favour! The only other tasting note for Skylark says that it’s minty + fruity and medicinal. I didn’t get any mint at all (thank goodness). It just tasted like mulled cider to me, or maybe mulled … fruit punch? Maybe not quite, but it definitely had more nuance to it than just apple. It’s not my favourite thing (I lean more towards spicy or floral than fruity), but it’s quite nice. I think I’ll have the second cup of this sample cold and see what happens.

This tea reminds me of salonpas— the Asian medicine muscle-relaxant patches. If you didn’t grow up on Chinese and Japanese medicines, like I did, maybe it doesn’t seem medicinal at all. But to me, the combination of the slightly minty with the herbal rooibos and the apple-pear is rounding it out that way for me. Not bad enough I dumped it out, but I don’t actually like it either. I kept forgetting to review it, so I kept drinking a sample and thinking the same thing and then forgetting which tea it was that made me think this.