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Ceylon Osmanthus from Kally Tea

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80/100

Ceylon Osmanthus

Black Tea by Kally Tea

A delicate blend of Ceylon and Darjeeling teas paired with organic Osmanthus to create an aromatic and sweet cup that is both flowery and uplifting. The Osmanthus flowers are from an evergreen type shrub that is often used to scent teas. The flowers are relatively small in size, and impart an apricot or subtle peach flavor. The Osmanthus shrub grows mainly in southern China and Taiwan. The blossoms are also known to help aid digestion.

Ingredients: Black Tea, Organic Black Tea, and Organic Osmanthus Petals.

6 Tasting Notes

Indigobloom
94
Indigobloom 4 tasting notes

I’m at a friends place so this won’t be a long note. This darn keyboard is wonky and keeps eating my words. It’s been interesting typing to say the least.
Now this tea… I like it. Do I love it? I don’t know!! I need to play around with the parameters. It’s really tasty.
The floral part is pretty mild and almost marshmallow like. It also reminds me of chamomile, in that soft light way. Dancing on my tongue like little clouds that disappear into thin air and beckon for me to have another sip. Second steep was had without milk and it was creamy despite that! wow.
This is a rather different experience to what I expected. It tastes more like a darjeeling(yes it is black but I consider it a class on its own, being rather unique in profile) or flowery oolong. Lovely! and odd all at once

OK so I seriously intended to write a proper review this time but my cuppa today was beyond amazing and somehow ended up guzzled down before I even had a chance to log in here.
Thus, I’ll have to wait til next time. Needless to say, I really do love my Ceylon Osmanthus.

Sighs. So it appears Steepster ate my note from this morning and I can’t recall what I wrote!! Not exactly anyhow, and what would have been the follow up is going into my next post so stay tuned. It involves high tea! :D

Slight bitter note at the beginning of my sip. Milk and sugar fixed that right up though. Good as ever.
Without additives, never go beyond 3 min.

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Raritea
82

1 tablespoon for 375 ml

Apricot-fruity taste on the sip. Very slight astringency from the black tea. Black tea notes are very quiet. Slight buttery quality.

Thank you to Indigobloom and Sil for sharing this with me!

Hallieod

Thanks to Sil for sharing this one! Only a short tasting notelet, as I probably oversteeped this one (no brewing instructions on the website and I figured a Ceylon should be okay for 4 minutes, anyway). The smell was amazing, and I now know that I must have an osmanthus tea somewhere in my cupboard, though this may not be the osmanthus for me. The taste was much weaker, and as the tea base was rather bitter, it was hard to get anything else. I’ll try again shorter and maybe cooler.