Almond Oolong

My first steeping of this had to be done with microwaved water (1:30 minutes), so I’m sure it’s reducing the quality. I can taste a light hint of almond but the tea is really light. Going to try steeping longer…

I’ve been eating a lot of nuts lately (mostly pistachios and almonds), so I thought I’d break out my almond oolong sample as my first cup of the day. The dry leaves have a very strong smell. It smells like a concentrated almond extract more than typical roasted almonds that you would eat in a trail mix or something. The resulting tea is a bit perfume-y and has a strong almond extract taste. It also somehow reminds me of rooibos with a slightly medicinal/minty taste. This tea is a little confusing to me and did not turn out exactly as I had imagined.

I love almond-flavored things and I love oolong, so this was definitely a tea I wanted to try!

The leaves smell sweet, slightly almondy, but just kind of sweet in general.

Brewed, I smell that same sweet, slightly almond scent. But it’s not what I would consider almond to smell like. I’m probably thinking of almond extract, and this isn’t quite that.

The taste? Unfortunately, I can’t seem to taste anything over the apple I had a bit ago, so I will have to try this again some other time. :sigh:

Nice almond flavor, but perhaps it does mask the oolong a little too much.

great tea with just a hint of almond. gave a little to my dad who has never had loose leaf tea and he loved it too.

Great to sip and relax and think about life. Smells nice, too!

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Strange VariaTEA TTB: Tea 19

Spent my family day relaxing with a book and tea. This tea from the Strange VariaTEA box. It’s fine. It’s marzipan for sure. Marzipan and floral oolong. Nothing special and not the best quality oolong but better than an adagio black tea. Thanks for the chance to try it, Roswell Strange!

Another Sample from Adagio
The packet of this one smells like chocolate-covered cherries with maybe some almond in there.
Brewed up this tea tastes like well cheap dirt with a hint of cocoa and a hint of almond. The resteeping ended up tasting the same. This is probably the first real miss for me from Adagio so far.

Adagio Advent Calendar – Day 8

Ugh. So I figured I would just get this one over with, as I’m expecting it to be Cherry Marzipan Oolong, part II…

Yeah, so Adagio’s almond flavoring is really just not for me. It’s definitely marzipan-esque, but it goes so far into the cherry side of things that it tastes like a cheap cherry lollipop that you would get at the doctor’s office as a kid. Or a bit like cherry Sucrets without the menthol taste…

It’s not quite as bad as the Cherry Marzipan version, because that one has extra cherry (perish the thought). But it’s still gross and cloying and I hate it, LOL!

(today’s advent teas: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIirQD-Air7/)

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More mineral and roasty oolong in this cup than sweet and nutty almond/marzipan and that was somewhat of a reversal from how it usually steeps up. However, I don’t mind the oolong base and I’m a little over the almond flavour so I thought this cup was a tasty send off for this tea.