Copenhagen Blend

Ugh. Rookie mistake. Too much leaf. It was either too much or too little, I’d rather have a stronger cup. The dry leaf was very sweet smelling. Kinda fruity. Red berries and currants. Same with the wet leaf. Also a small hint of those candy wafers. The tea is not nearly as strong as it should be for the amount of leaf I used. I left it to steep while I took the kids to school in the tepid water. Slight woody notes along with some tart fruits. A decent blend but not one I’d buy.

Sipdown! (66)

I haven’t been getting any tea done lately! Yesterday I just wasn’t in the mood for some reason, and I ended up only having two teas and a London Fog… (shrugs)

So today I tried a lower temperature for this tea, to see if I could bring out the green tea a bit. Perhaps there’s a bit of grassiness here? I didn’t see much green tea in the dry leaf anyway, but I think it’s a very grassy Chinese sencha so I can still taste it a little bit.

I’m getting peach, though I know it’s supposed to be mango. There’s a hint of pear-like quince with a slightly honeyed note. I’m also happy to report that today I’m getting a hint of rhubarb! Mostly at the end of the sip, there’s a lovely rhubarb-y tartness.

Overall though, it’s just not a great tea in my opinion. The flavors are all a bit muddled in together, the base teas included. The black base is quite flat. And the peach/mango dominates too much, when I’d like more quince, rhubarb, or strawberry. It’s fine, but not great!

Thanks Courtney and (indirectly) VariaTEA for the share!

this one tasted like nothing to me the other day. Not sure what it was but honestly it didn’t really taste like i was drinking a flavoured tea. Sample from variaTEA. I love getting to try new teas but this one confused me :)

I saw that Cameron and VariaTEA have been drinking this and it inspired me.

There’s a sweet rhubarb scent and while not much of the sweetness comes through in the flavour, the rhubarb does. There’s also some generic fruitiness. Thanks VariaTEA for sharing so much!

Made a cup of this one… yesterday? Maybe the day before?

This was a VariaTEA share but, in all honesty, the flavour of the blend did not stick in my mind and I couldn’t remember what it was supposed to me. A quick once over of the tea leaf told me to expect mix tea bases, rhubarb, and coconut for sure – and sure enough those were the flavours that stuck out in the steeped cup. Mildly flavoured, and very European feeling – all floral undertones and more of a creamy rhubarb than the tart/shrill rhubarb teas you see in North America.

Not a stand out, but better than I’d expected to be perfectly honest.

Sipdown (334)

This is a nice Sipdown given I started with over 100 grams of this. Granted, most was shared with Courtney but emptying a tin is still an accomplishment. Today this is a mango black tea. Just mango and mediocre black tea. That’s not bad but it’s not special, which leaves me okay with saying goodbye to this tea.