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A friend from postcrossing sent me this tea among a New Year card (received much earlier)! Thank you Benjamin from South Carolina, USA!

I needed to wake up call after another passed exam and for studying for another exam. It’s hard to have all of them so close to each other, but now only 4 are remaining, and three weeks of exam period. Luckily, at least two of them will be in summer term too; so I don’t have to worry that much about those two. But, naturally I would like to pass them all in time.

Anyway to the tea…
It’s very nice that they have used pyramid sachet, but they should know a better quality tea can be there… it’s mostly dust and fannings, which made me a bit sad.

The aroma was very nice, autumn leaf pile and barnyard, that typical for black teas, enjoyable and I knew it is going to be strong and hopefully tasty tea. Hmm. It seems it wasn’t delivered well into taste as I got, instead of baked bread, typical black tea tannic taste. It actually tasted like an quite cheap tea, somewhere between Lipton Yellow label and Twinings basic black teas.

What a shame it isn’t more complex; although it has been fun to try US produced tea, which lacks depth, but isn’t that bad as I was a bit afraid of! I can understand being it produced for sweet part of market, for people who are drinking tea only with sugar added and/or milk. For that, I reckon it will be a delicious and better than Lipton. But on its own… it’s 66. Above average, but just a tiny bit.

Song pairing (to write a note):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0pQTEhj8A

Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Barnyard, Tannic

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 10 OZ / 300 ML
ashmanra

This tea plantation is only a few hours from me, but I have never been! Maybe soon!

gmathis

The plantation also has a few more upscale blends that are better quality. I think I have tried a couple, but I can’t remember which ones.

Martin Bednář

Ashmanra, as it is that close to you, I thought you were there! It seems like a nice place to visit.
gmathis Yep, as I was lurking around their website, I saw a few blends that sounds better. I was just sad seeing pyramid sachet and not a better tea in.

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ashmanra

This tea plantation is only a few hours from me, but I have never been! Maybe soon!

gmathis

The plantation also has a few more upscale blends that are better quality. I think I have tried a couple, but I can’t remember which ones.

Martin Bednář

Ashmanra, as it is that close to you, I thought you were there! It seems like a nice place to visit.
gmathis Yep, as I was lurking around their website, I saw a few blends that sounds better. I was just sad seeing pyramid sachet and not a better tea in.

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I am drinking almost everything. Tea bag collector who moved to wonderful world of loose leaf.

Trying to rate differently tea bags and loose leaf as tea bags have usually worse quality.

Photographer now and then. Postcrossing and geocaching member. Very curious person. Logistics student (should finish in June 2021).

Buried in tea right now. Is in my cupboard (trying to be updated) which sparkled your interest? Write me, I would gladly share with you. But I don’t want anything in return now :)

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