6106 Tasting Notes
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 245) [Final tea drank in April]
2022 Sipdown 117/365!
Never really got the brulee aspect of this tea; just a mildly gingery black. Pleasant but mostly unremarkable.
Slowed down a bit on the 52teas drinking front, with only 47 this month. I’ve been drinking somewhat less tea due to being sick (and having my sick toddler at home more), and because my 5-month-old has been significantly more fussy/only taking 30 minute naps. I’m cautiously hopeful that the tide has turned on all of these cases and I’ll have the time and inclination to drink more tea again (important because I have a nice, large batch of new 52teas coming my way very soon!!)
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 240)
2022 Sipdown 116/365!
Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge March 2022: Tea with a flavour note/ingredient from a favourite Girl Scout cookie
As I live in Canada, we don’t have Girl Scout cookies, and instead have Girl Guide cookies – of which the flavour options are more limited (chocolate, vanilla, mint). My favourite are the chocolate/mint cookies, so I’m stretching a bit with a blueberry mint lemonade tea, but oh well!
Not a huge fan of this one – the green rooibos and hint of mint made it nicely refreshing, and there was some blueberry and perhaps a hint of some sort of lemon, but it just wasn’t my favourite flavour combo. Maybe it was the mint? I’d expect to enjoy a blueberry lemonade tea more!
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 239)
I still think the mate is just too present here. There is a nice blueberry flavour, and maaaaybe I can taste the green mango (not my fave flavour), but the… vegetal? Grassy? Strong? flavour of the green mate mostly overwhelms them. There’s some roasted mate in here too, and I’m sure it contributes, but I think I might like this tea more if the balance shifted towards roasted, and away from mango towards blueberry.
(52teas (Anne) 2022: 238)
I’m drinking hot tea! It’s a miracle! I actually cannot remember the last time I drank tea hot during the day, although it does happen rarely in the evenings. (For the moment, at least, my daughter is content to lay on her back on her quilt instead of being held 24/7. I can only hope it lasts like this for at least a few days!)
This is another tea I sweeear I had drank and recorded, but maybe I just drank it last year and didn’t write a tasting note. Doesn’t matter, it’s delicious. Anne’s “recipe” for chocolate teas has truly been perfected and just tastes fantastic, and there’s just a smidge of tart fruit behind the rich, velvety chocolate. Reminds me of chocolate covered berries, except better because the chocolate isn’t waxy and there are basically no calories here.
I hope all are on the mend!