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Since I didn’t like the star anise, I tried brewing up this tea without it. Not really an improvement, unfortunately; the liquorice-esque taste I disliked is gone, but now the liquor tastes much simpler. It’s mostly cranberry in taste, with a bit of cinnamon and orange. Maybe cranberry fans would like this more?

I’m trying to finish this up and in the process becoming more fond of it… funny how that works.

Added some honey this time… not really an improvement, the fruit flavors seem to clash with it somehow.

I love blueberries so I had high hopes for this one, but so far it hasn’t impressed me much. The dry leaf smells very strongly and seems very artificial — not necessarily a turn-off, but it wasn’t what I was expecting.

The liquor itself tastes mostly of Adagio’s normal base for flavored blacks, a base that I find to be too strong and bitter for fruit flavors. There’s a blueberry presence that seems much more real than I expected from the scent, but overall this tea is pretty boring.