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Gauguin's Impression from Merkaba

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Gauguin's Impression

Black Tea by Merkaba

An intriguing blend sure to be a favorite. Stand alone fragrances and tastes that blend together like colors swirling in a tropical island sunset.
A black tea base infused with Tahitian Vanilla and French Lavender. With the first sip the lavender is lightly noticeable. The vanilla creeps up behind as the liquor
leaves your palate. Two distinct and separate tastes blending into one. A memorable experience.
This rich and thick flavor evokes a warm ‘Welcome Home’! A dash of sugar can add to an already delicious flavor. Bright and Coppery. Contains luxury black tea,
lavender, sunflower, calendula petals and natural flavors As always, we utilize natural flavors. High quality tea tastes good and natural flavors do not mask the natural
taste of the high grown Ceylon tea. (The norm for many making flavored tea is to use overpowering artificial flavors, which can be used to hide lower quality tea).
Natural flavors do not leave an aftertaste giving the tea a clean and true character. It should be noted that natural flavors tend to be somewhat ‘soft ‘ and the flavors
slightly muted, but for many this is a refreshing change and one of the desired attributes of our naturally flavored teas.

Fragrant French Lavender flowers stir delicate, lingering memories of a romantic realm. Sedative, aromatic, carminative and nervine properties. A nervine and
antidepressant it is calming and relaxing, often used in perfumery.

3 Tasting Notes

TeaEqualsBliss
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TeaEqualsBliss 2 tasting notes

WOW! The smell of this one is truly unique! It smells semi-tropical and then there is the vanilla but there is some non-tropical smelling floral notes and almost a sugar scent as well! And that’s the Dry Leaf Smell!

The Wet Leaves are as described above but more of a woodsy and perfume smell too!

The liquid has slight scents of both sets described above as well as a different sort of vanilla and black tea smell that is more prominent than before.

It’s very floral and woodsy on the tongue with a slight bitter-black tea taste. There seems to be a grassy end to the sip. This seems to be one of the more complex blends I have had in quite some time!

It’s extremely strong and a quicker sip reveals a bit of fruity taste as well! WOW! This tea seems to have everything incorporated somehow.

Not bad. Actually I like it. Very interesting Cuppa.

Tasted like pure vanilla and sunflower seeds today…it’s was fairly good tho

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silvermage2000

Thankyou Teaequalsbliss for this one. The blend is pretty to look at. Dry this smells like the black tea lavender and abit of vanilla. I steeped the tea . This tastes like black vanilla and some lavender. This tea is good.