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Dry – malty chocolate. Steeped- super malty and chocolate. Smooth. 2nd and 3rd resteep – more of very good taste. Very good tea. Never gets astringent. Hold its flavor well.

Wet smell very roasted almost coffee-esque. 2min 195 3tsp almost burnt smelling, super dark brew. Smooth not much taste. Might try this for a longer steep time or hotter water, leaves never unfurled in my steeper.

8Feb16- 2.5tsp 7 min
Very dark smell chocolate mint, taste chocolate mint. No woody rooibos! Yay!
2nd steep more rooibos flavor. Still have mint but I lost most of the chocolate flavoring.

Dry leaf smells bready, kind of sweet.
2 tsp 30 sec – slightly sweet, I don’t actually get any other flavors this steep.
1 min – bread-like, sweet
I didn’t continue with this tea.

2Feb: Dry leaf smells awesome. Tea – I’m getting chocolate and pumpkin and creaminess. I’m also getting a strange taste/astringency that I don’t like. I have some more left might try it again.

31Jan: I waffled on adding this to my order for a while. I love cherries, but I hate coffee. Unless it’s the only hot thing to drink somewhere and then I add so much stuff that it isn’t coffee anymore. It was getting high praise on Steepster and I’d thought I’d try it.
Dry- smell reminds me of chocolate covered cherries (Good)
Adding water – smell coffee, cherry coffee – this might not be good.
1st steep smooth, cherry finish, not a lot of coffee flavor.
2nd steep 5 min 8oz – more cherry and coffee in this steep. Still very smooth no harsh coffee flavor.
I really like the cherry flavor and the smoothness. I just wish I could divorce the coffee. I don’t think I’ll get this again because of the coffee.

29Jan: Sample sipdown. milky, very milky. I like this tea beter sans extra flavoring. If you want your milk oolong to be extra milky…I didn’t care for it.

Dry leaf nice mix of tea and fruit – pear and apple. smells of sweet pear. Tastes malty, slightly spicy pear. Not that good. I didn’t much care for this tea apparently….

25jan: smells citrus. Tastes: citrus, earthy. Tastes complement each other well.

25Jan: small leaves, smells spicy, cinnamon. Tea is yummy, slightly cinnamony. I like this one.