Chocolate Rose Truffle

This is a really nice chocolate tea, but I’m not tasting any of the rose flavor. It’s probably because of its age since I see in some of the other tasting notes that rose is mentioned. I love floral teas, but even without the rose this one is really nice.

This tea had the misfortune, in my mind, of being fickle due to that one or more times that possibly too many white chocolate chips landed in my steeper and turned things waxy and unpleasant.

Somehow my brain glommed onto that/those episodes and every time I stumble upon my pouch of this, brain says nope.

That said, when I have a chat with brain and say let’s have it anyway and see what happens today, things turn out differently. Today’s cup is pretty awesome chocolate and chocolate liquor goodness.

I got this 1/2 oz sampler bag from Sara, partly used. It looked like about 2tsp left in the bag. So I dumped it from the bag into my infuser.

It smells chocolatey with a hint of rose. “Allow tea to cool 10 minutes for best flavor?” Nice, no chance of burning my tongue.

I can only pick out chocolate and rose flavors. But they’re nicely balanced. Like sitting in a rose garden, sipping hot cocoa, and a rose petal lands in your cup, and you drink it together. Mmm.

My previous cup of this was perfumed and kind of waxy, possibly too many white chocolate chips in my spoon of leaf. This one, however, is divine. Today, it seems closely related to Chocolate Eclair, one of my favourites.

May Flowers! This tea came from from the last Here’s Hoping Teabox, so many thanks to the individual that shared this tea in the box and tea-sipper for organizing the box!

The leaf has a very nice chocolately scent, and there is still an ample amount of chocolate and white chocolate chips and rose petals in the leaf. The steeped cup smells very much like hot cocoa! The flavor of this tea is absolutely lovely! I was worried it would have lost a bit of steam due to age, but the tea is extremely smooth, has no bitterness or astringency, and still has a very strong chocolate taste, that actually does remind me of a soft, dark truffle. The rose is a more subtle flavor, but does come out as a floral sweetness right toward the end of the sip.

Simply lovely; I’d love to see this one get a retro reblend sometime!

additional notes: an indulgent big mug in my lovely David’s tree mug yesterday… indulgent because two scoops and extra chocolatey!

Yup. This is good. Nommmmmms.
Similar in flavour chocolate wise to the 52teas Chocolate eclaire tea, which I also adore.
The floral aspect isn’t strong, but softens up the tea somehow. Nicely done!!
I love how gorgeous the rosepetals are. Is this tea… or potpourri?
I’m not a huge rose tea fan so the fact that I like this is really saying something

This tea is a people-pleaser! It’s got everything: sweetness, creaminess, rose petals (pretty), chocolate! It’s a solid, tasty staple.
If you were ever in a situation where you weren’t sure if someone was a person or an alien, you could give them this tea. The humans would enjoy it.
The aliens would be like “I’m actually not acclimated to any of the microbes or viruses of this planet, and that’s catching up to me. Can I sit down?”
Sure you can, aliens. IN YOUR GRAVE.
This review got out of hand; but I recommend the tea for my sweet-toothed friends.

ooooh this is delicious! I love the dried rose with the dark chocolate. The cocoa flavour is authentic and tastes amazing with the floral.

It smells and tastes like cocoa that has a little bit of bitterness that raw cocoa has, but at the same time is sweet from the creamy white chocolate. The rose is a really nice and not sour.

Ok, this is one of the most perfect cups of teas I’ve had. I made this yesterday, but ended up steeping it three times. Rather than have the chocolate filtered, I plucked the chips out of the filter and put them straight in my cup.

The recommendations suggest a heaping teaspoon per 12 oz. I had about 10 oz of water, so left off the “heaping.”

I think because the chocolate chips were in the bottom on my cup, the sweetness was a little more concentrated towards the bottom of the cup. Most of the cup was subtly sweet and beautifully floral. Then, as I got to the bottom of the cup, the sweetness gets a bit stronger, but still beautiful. One of the best cups of comfort I’ve had in awhile.

One the second and third steep, I increased the steeping time to 3 and 4 minutes, respectively.