Round two of guess the flavouring, courtesy of Alphakitty!
By scent, I’d guess this is a strawberry-flavoured black. However….. the first sip makes me question whether it’s strawberry or perhaps raspberry?? Yum! I like this one! I’m going to go with raspberry, I think. This cup, unlike Florence, does have some astringency, but it’s quite manageable. I think 5 minutes would have been overdoing it here, so glad I stuck with 4. I want to say that there’s a touch of chocolate in here too, but I could be wrong. It’s certainly not as prominent as in Florence, if it’s there. I quite like the flavouring here. Again, I’m not always huge on the flavoured blacks, so I probably wouldn’t pick it up myself, but it was lovely to try! I bet it’s amazing with milk and sugar, but I just had three bowls of hand-picked strawberries covered in Greek yogurt and brown sugar, so I really don’t think I deserve any additional calories right now. I have enough for a second round though, so perhaps then!
Ok…. so I was way off. I do remember thinking that one of the teas smelled like an earl grey when I was steeping them, but forgot entirely by this time. It still reads as a fruity black to me, and less like an earl grey, but that’s ok! Hee… if I’m this terrible at flavours all the time, I wonder what they must think of me on the cheese panel….
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I am not 100% sure, but I think they said once that it was black currant as at least one of the fruity flavors in this!
That wouldn’t surprise me. I was definitely feeling raspberry though, but it could easily be any sort of berry flavour, as I’m not great at identifying them sometimes :)
Haha!
I couldn’t find what exact berries this is flavored with… I should ask next time I go. Tastes like raspberry/currant to me, but berry flavors tend to be kind of similar so it’s hard to pick just one out.
The fruity tastes in Paris come from black currant. You were pretty close thinking chocolate, as there are vanilla and caramel in there, along with the touch of bergamot.
-RA
Cool, good to know! It was definitely tasty :D And I didn’t add it above, but the re-steep was pretty darn good too, which I judge to be an indicator of a good flavoured black!
I am not 100% sure, but I think they said once that it was black currant as at least one of the fruity flavors in this!
That wouldn’t surprise me. I was definitely feeling raspberry though, but it could easily be any sort of berry flavour, as I’m not great at identifying them sometimes :)
Haha!
I couldn’t find what exact berries this is flavored with… I should ask next time I go. Tastes like raspberry/currant to me, but berry flavors tend to be kind of similar so it’s hard to pick just one out.
The fruity tastes in Paris come from black currant. You were pretty close thinking chocolate, as there are vanilla and caramel in there, along with the touch of bergamot.
-RA
Cool, good to know! It was definitely tasty :D And I didn’t add it above, but the re-steep was pretty darn good too, which I judge to be an indicator of a good flavoured black!