Sipdown
September Sipdown Challenge Prompt – a tea you will not repurchase
I bought this one day when I was really feeling down and wanted some tea retail therapy. It was fun to try, but when a tea is this strongly flavored I assume it is not a great quality base and there is a lot of flavoring that might be labeled natural but is in no way what I would consider natural. (Rare Tea Lady suggested recently to just stir a spoonful of high quality jam into one’s tea if one wants fruit flavor! The Russians do, usually with cherry jam or preserves.)
It was fun, it was good, it was very summery, but I am glad to finish it. There was only one bag left and I added two teaspoons of Ceylon OP Kenilworth No. 450 from Tin Roof Teas so I could make a Stump pot full for breakfast. The orange flavor still came through and I had a more natural tasting beverage.
Even though I will probably not repurchase the other two flavors I bought, the Lemon Biscuit was probably my favorite and I might eventually look for Whisky Fig to try.
