I know, folks are down on flavoured teas around here, but now and then I like a cup of blackcurrant tea. Today I was out, and the local shop had something sold by Hedley's in Ceylon.
Big thumbs down. The blackcurrant flavour is somewhat cartoonish and the tea flavour underneath it isn't really very vivid. I was expecting something like Twining's blackcurrant (sort of the average baseline), but this was most definitely not a good thing.
--scott
This reminds me of something that happened yesterday. My wife and I were at the Penn Quarter branch of Teaism in DC. I had a pretty good FF Darjeeling. My wife - I swear she doesn't do this often - had a cold concoction supposedly involving ginger ice cream. No discernible ginger in the drink, but it was a true cinnamon bomb. After one sip, I could hardly taste my DJ until I'd half finished it.
What is it about cinnamon that's so domineering?
/Lew
I'm all for anything that tastes good. Mlesna Monk's Blend, Republic of Tea Ginger Peach Black Tea, Jasmine Green, and one I haven't mentioned here ever but your post made me think of and now crave: Republic of Tea Blackberry Sage black tea. I think you'd dig it, try it out if you come across some.
I have no shame in enjoying a well flavored tea, it is the poorly/ overly/artificially flavored ones I take issue with. Mlesna makes a blackcurrant flavored tea you might want to track down too.
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