I’d like to wish everyone on Steepster a belated happy new year. Let’s hope 2021 will bring better things. (After 2020, the bar is set pretty low.)
In honour of National Marzipan Day, I’m drinking this very old tea from 2016 or thereabouts. I steeped around 4 g of leaf in a 355 ml mug at 185F for 3.5, 5, and 8 minutes.
Surprisingly, the aroma of almond and amaretto is still pretty strong. The first steep has notes of almond, marzipan, cherry, and grass, though the tea is a little stale. These flavours persist in the second steep, with the green tea becoming more grassy and slightly astringent in the third.
This is a nice, if not memorable, tea that probably hasn’t been improved by sitting so long at the back of my cupboard. I enjoyed the amaretto and marzipan, but the green tea not so much. I’d give it a 65, but will hold off since it’s so old. Thanks, Mastress Alita, for the suggestion to revisit it.
Flavors: Alcohol, Almond, Astringent, Cherry, Grass, Marzipan, Nuts
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Happy 2021 to you, Leafhopper. :)
I had an old sampler packet of this tea that I finally drank during advent season (to replace a banana tea that came in my advent — that’s the only flavor I can’t do) and felt much the same; fairly certain the green leaf in mine was also stale!
Mastress Alita, that’s totally my fault for keeping it so long. Too bad I have most of a tin of it left.
Happy 2021 to you, Leafhopper. :)
I had an old sampler packet of this tea that I finally drank during advent season (to replace a banana tea that came in my advent — that’s the only flavor I can’t do) and felt much the same; fairly certain the green leaf in mine was also stale!
Mastress Alita, that’s totally my fault for keeping it so long. Too bad I have most of a tin of it left.