Steep Information:
Amount: 3 tsp
Additives: none
Water: filtered, boiling, 1 cast iron teapot full
Tool: Cast Iron Teapot with Mesh basket strainer
Steep Time: a little over 4 minutes
Served: Hot
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: generic spices, chocolate, berries, vanilla?
Steeped Tea Smell: black tea, berries, sweet, spices, chocolate, complex kaleidoscope
Flavor: black tea, berry, sweet, slightly astringent
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: spicy, short slight bitter, slightly astringent
Liquor: translucent dark orange or maybe reddish-brown
I believe I ordered this because it was featured on Steepster select and everyone was raving about it.
The flavors are slight but definitely there, only they keep shifting and I can’t get a good handle on what they are. This is a very smooth black tea.
Post-Steep Additives: 1 tsp German rock sugar, not an improvement I actually think it did something unpleasant to the flavor
The next cup tried almond milk, chugged that to get rid of it, BLEH
Resteep: 4 minutes – brown water
+2 min – slightly vanilla brown water
+2 min very light tea and vanilla if I were in a better mood I would have appreciated it as a light cup of tea with hints of flavor but I tossed it.
I don’t think I’ll purchase it, it is a quality tea, and a nice black tea, but very complex tea, and just not my cup of tea.
images: http://amazonv.blogspot.com/2010/03/harney-and-sons-loose-leaf-black-tea_22.html
