There aren’t any tasty (or tasting, you choose!) notes for this one yet? Blasphemy! I think I started with 50g of this from the group order and here I am with only a few cups left. My mom has fallen in loves with this. Head over heels. This and Butiki’s Lemon French Macaron are her two favourites now, she says.
I steep around 4g in a Nordic mug with water that has been cooled off for a few minutes after reaching boiling point. Then I leave it for 3-4 minutes. And the caramel vanilla notes really pop out without getting drowned out by a bitter base note, which as we know, can happen with teas like this. It’s seriously like vanilla caramel. It reminds me of Harney’s Vanilla Comoro (I haven’t tried their caffeinated version so perhaps it is kind of like that one too). It’s like I dropped in a square of vanilla caramel into my teacup, which has melted and left a rich swirl of vanilla in every sip. I don’t taste bourbon (the liquor) in here, about which I am relieved. Actual bourbon personally tastes too smoky to me. Any whisky/rye renditions do, for that matter.
So, this is a definite repurchase. Let’s hope I’ll have a useable credit card that DF will actually accept this year, as last year, I had a screw up which led to no Advent calendar.
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That would make a lot more sense. I guess my brain sometimes thinks of the spirit + vanilla in this context just because I’ve seen so many “bourbon vanilla” dessert recipes which call for both vanilla (bean) and a shot of the spirit.
I think it’s supposed to be bourbon vanilla rather than the spirit.
That would make a lot more sense. I guess my brain sometimes thinks of the spirit + vanilla in this context just because I’ve seen so many “bourbon vanilla” dessert recipes which call for both vanilla (bean) and a shot of the spirit.
Nice. I’ve thought about getting this one sometime too.
Advent calendar is up at DF, by the way. :)
Thanks for tempting me, sren!