Slightly tainted tasting note, sorry. I didn’t get a chance to try the unadulterated tea as Mum was waiting for her steaming cuppa, so these are my thoughts on my remix…
I’m getting a lot better about not sticking my nose in the whole tin/packet. Still, the fragrance is off-putting. This doesn’t smell like lychee and ginger to me. At all. It smells really quite like perfume, which isn’t something I seek in my food or drink. The brew also smells perfumed, but less so, thank goodness.
Flavour-wise, the lychee-ginger combination is really nice. Overall, the tea tastes pretty good, but every once in a while that perfume sneaks in and casts a pall of artificiality over everything. (Note that I don’t know whether in fact any artificial flavour has been added. It could be that this is just a side effect of the combination of natural flavours in the tea.) It has a really nice black tea-lychee aftertaste. If you’re sensitive to caffeine, be careful with this one, it’s hitting me pretty hard.
In the end, I like this tea enough to finish it, probably not enough to buy it again. I do really love both lychee and ginger, though, so I’m looking forward to trying other blends. If I can find a flavourful, natural-tasting lychee blend, I can always grate fresh ginger into the infuser. The ginger is easy, it’s the lychee that’s hard to get right.
Tea amount: 1 sachet
Water amount: 6oz/~175mL
Additives: ¾ tsp/~3.5g Demerara sugar and a few thin slices of fresh ginger
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This is on my list to try! I actually love Harney’s plain lychee black, so I feel like I will dig this one
If you’re not planning to pick this up for yourself, care to swap some of this for some of the plain lychee black?
Unfortunately I don’t have any of the plain lychee black right now, but if I had some of it I would totally swap with you.
No worries! You want some of this, anyway?
Sure, as long as you let me send you something back. I have some lychee blacks from Simpson & Vail and DavidsTea that I could send you some small samples of, if you’d like. PM me!
This is on my list to try! I actually love Harney’s plain lychee black, so I feel like I will dig this one
If you’re not planning to pick this up for yourself, care to swap some of this for some of the plain lychee black?
Unfortunately I don’t have any of the plain lychee black right now, but if I had some of it I would totally swap with you.
No worries! You want some of this, anyway?
Sure, as long as you let me send you something back. I have some lychee blacks from Simpson & Vail and DavidsTea that I could send you some small samples of, if you’d like. PM me!