Mother’s Day Teas!
I was so curious about this one because of the name; I was really for a really bomb AF orange flavouted black tea, maybe with like brown sugar notes or some other underlying sweetness? Imagine how surprised I was so see that there isn’t ANY orange or even citrus fruit in the blend in the first place. Now I’m just bracing myself for the wave of people who’ll inevitably be confused by the name.
That said, I know a lot of British-styled marmalades are citrus or stone fruit with ginger so I’m just going to use that approach when talking to customers about it. “Yeah, it’s kind of like a British style marmalade with apricot and ginger!”. That’ll do.
I actually REALLY love the flavour though! The apricot is by far the strongest fruit note here, and I think it’s both natural tasting and sweet and jammy – so it kind of works for me as a ‘marmalade’ flavour. A customer today said it best though: with the creamy vanilla/custard-y undertones this is actually a little more like an ‘Apricot Creamsicle’. I do feel like I’m experiencing a touch of Deja Vu as well when it comes to the apricot. It’s like I’ve tasted this specific apricot flavour (sweetness/degree of realness) in something else. Another tea? Maybe, but I’m leaning towards not.
Hmmm, what else? Well, for starters, I actually don’t taste a few of the ingredients in the blend at all. Ginger is probably the most surprising: I can smell it in the dry leaf, for sure, but I think it’s pretty well masked in the taste. This is almost entirely, to me, a creamy apricot flavour. I also can’t taste the stevia at all – and actually, none of my coworkers can this time around either. Maybe it’s just a really low level of it? What I do taste is hints of apple, and some floral undertones.
Overall, this is very smooth (particularly for a black tea) with some great supple apricot notes and fresh cream notes! It’s fun, and I think something I might even end up buying for at home. Only complaint is the misleading name.
PS. According to the back of the tin, the tea is named after the Lady Marmalade song. You know, this one… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQa7SvVCdZk
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