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A superb second flush Margaret’s Hope with lots of golden tips and a hint of green. The bouquet in the cup is sweet and the colour is a rich, clear red. The liquor flavour is complex, ranging from “nutty” to fruity sweet or characteristic “muscatel”, with a pleasant, astringent after note. As the tea cools the sweetness becomes the predominate note. This tea is both smooth and bold. It’s excellent on its own and can also stand up to milk and/or sugar. A great tea to serve with desserts. If you enjoy Darjeeling, this Margaret’s Hope is one not to be missed.
This ‘whole leaf’ tea isn’t very whole – the leaves look pretty torn up. The flavour is…interesting. Light for a black tea but the muscatel flavour may be a bit too much to take without milk and it makes the tea quite….sharp (for lack of a better word).
All in all I’m pretty ambivalent towards this tea, I’ll have to try it with milk and see if that improves things.
Another tea from Jillian (or rather THE tea from Jillian). The dry leaves didn’t have much of a strong smell, and it steeped to a sort of pale red-orange (not the “rich red” the description led me to believe it would be). The smell is faintly ‘tea’ like, with a sweet smell overtop. Kind of reminds me of keemun.
It’s got a somewhat green taste. It’s light, and I think it has a faintly wine-like quality to it; I’m not getting any nuttyness. Nor any real fruitiness, but it is still sort of wine like taste.
I’m getting bits of sweetness and bits of astringency. When I breath out I am getting a sort of nutty taste now, actually. Yes, definitely getting a nuttyness now. It’s part mouth-feel part aftertaste. Sort of walnutty. That sweet bitterness. Very nice.
