I’m surprised at how much I’m liking this. I bought it thinking it mught be nice but I wasn’t expecting this level of niceness. My history with tropical flavours in tea is a bit shaky. But this stuff is disappearing at an alarming rate. It’s not too sweet and it’s not too artificial, it’s just right.
I strongly urge you to try this one out because mine is disappearing at an alarming rate!
The recent new fruity things from 52teas reminded me that I still actually have this one. A whole half pouch! So I decided to make me a cup while taking care of some correspondance (Ow! Crampy cramp is cramping crampily! I am way too used to typing!).
I didn’t drink it. I NOMMED it.
The funny thing is that I really especially like that note of coconut right there on the swallow and finish. I don’t usually appreciate coconut in tea at all, but I think that’s because there is such a thing as too much coconut. It’s very toned down here to a secondary flavour, and that works much better for me.
I’ve been cold brewing this in the fridge all day as part of the Decupboarding Day, and I’ve just now tried it for the first time. I don’t think I’ve done that with this tea before, I’m fairly new in general at this cold brewing business.
My mind? It is blown!
Steepsterites! Wow! Why did I never try this before?
It was bad enough letting Doulton’s teas sit there and wait for me to regain full control of the keyboard again. But then the order from 52teas arrived today, and things only got more difficult. And then I opened one, just to smell it, and one thing led to another and so on… ahem.
So I’m giving it a go and as you can see I’m trying really hard to be patient here and type sloooowly and properly.
The reason I’m starting with this one is very simpkly that it was the one that I ripped the top off to smell. It had a stronger aroma than I had expected. I thought something sweetly fruity like fresh fruit. What it actually was was more like dried fruit, a bit soapy. Of course. It’s dried fruit in it. Not sure how this always manages to surprise me but it’s the same every single time.
After brewing the soapy note goes away. The primary notes in the aroma here are pure fruit, especially passion fruit, weirdly, and coconut with a bit if banana in the background. The passion fruit is odd because it not apparently supposed to be tjehre. It’s just reminding me so strongly of the passion fruit black I used to have from Adagio. I’m not picking up any pine apple and I don’t know what papaya smells like.
Tastewise there’s a lot of coconut overall in the flavour, but right there on the front we have pineapple loud and clear. Here we definitely have the fruity sweet that I was searching for in the aroma of the dry leaves, and lots of it. The beautiful thing about it is that the white tea itself is coming through quite well also. It’s a tea, not a sort of hot cordial. As it cools a bit, the banana is coming out more strongly too.
I bought this because of the success the bkack currant bai mu dan was for me and I wanted to continue explorijng the fruitier choices. This is definitely a winner for me, and if you liked the black currant bai mu dan, I suggest you give this one a go too. I think it would work quite nicely as a dessert with all the fruityness.
And yes, it would seem that I am actually capable of typing withiout all those typos. But it also took som,e 25 minutes to write this. sigh stupid finger!
This + fruit flavoured foam candy = epic win of fruity nomness.
(even if said foam candy has accidentally been squashed during transport home into one enormous foam candy cake… that’s just not okay)
I can’t believe this is nearly gone. I can’t get over how much I like this. I was expecting to like it, but I didn’t think I’d like it this much.
Okay so it’s not a sample. It’s not even a decupboarding.
But it’s summerly and awesome and fruity fruity fruity with fruit on. And I haven’t had any of it in absolutely ages. Abandoned and forgotten, it has been kicking around at the bottom of the sample basket, but I dug it out today because I wanted something fruity and summerly.
I think I’ve got enough leaf left for one more round and then it’s over. In spite of having forgotten it for such a long time, I have really enjoyed this one.
Two out of three parts of my recent Amazon-avaganza loot arrived today and I’ve had watermelon for lunch. Lots of it, and nothing else. It’s just that sort of day. :)
