Next up from my Murchie’s order! One of the many fruity black teas that I selected, this one was actually part of their Summer Fruit sampler, which came with 2 ounces each of Tuscany Orange, Raspberry, Strawberry, and Peach Rooibos. I was already interested in some of those teas, so I figured why not?
Sadly, this is just okay IMO. The raspberry is a bit hard candy-like. It makes me reminisce about when my grandmother lived in her own small apartment, and always had a crystal candy dish on her coffee table with ribbon candy, those sliced hard candies with the cute images inside (no idea what they’re called), and assorted fruit hard candies – including the raspberry ones, which were round and had the bumpy texture of a raspberry. I think they had some kind of syrupy filling too?
So even though this isn’t a fresh raspberry flavor (as promised), and has a bit of a chalky edge to my tastebuds, I still appreciate the memories it activated. Will perhaps try it as a creamy raspberry milk tea one of these days.
Flavors: Artificial, Berry, Candy, Chalky, Fruity, Jam, Powdery, Raspberry, Smooth, Sweet
so it’s nice but it isn’t THE raspberry tea ?
no, not THE raspberry tea. I will keep searching for you! ;)
thank you Sil, dear serial tea drinker :)
Sorry it wasn’t THE raspberry, but I’ve found the Murchie’s teas to be hit or miss.