Organic Supreme Red Peony Black Tea

This was one of the free samples I chose from Bird Pick! It’s a beautiful tied wreath of dark brown leaves, about an inch and a half in diameter. Dry scent is sweet bread and honey with some raisin and wood notes. I used one piece in my 8 ounce cup, and as it steeped it unfurled a bit until it looked something like a sea urchin in my cup.

The steeped tea has a nice bread aroma with a lot of honey. Hm, this is an interesting one! There is a definite dark wheat bread flavor here. However, the beginning of the sip is quite woody and slightly… loamy? I don’t know. Midway through, it shifts to pure bread and honey tea, and this is the aftertaste as well. If this were bread and honey tea all the way through, I would be a very happy girl. The rougher flavor at the beginning is not my favorite.

Backlog

I drank this one Friday, before going down town for my boyfriend’s birthday. Since I didn’t write up this note up right away, I’m going off of the quick short hand notes I jotted down. I remember thinking that this smelled strongly of baked goods when the water hit it. The first steep was lots of honey, maybe some caramel, and lots of fresh baked bread. Delicious, I recall typing “my name is Mandy and I approve this tea” in the tea chat, so there’s that. I think I did three steeps before heading down town, and the flavor stayed strong through out. This was more light to medium bodied, but I steeped in a mason jar so this might have been due to heat loss. Definitely one that I plan on reordering, because not only does it taste great, its also so pretty and fun.