I had to try this one because it isn’t even in the system yet! Thanks again for the samples! I just know I’d love every tea on the site… which I didn’t even know existed until I saw the sample offer! Three minutes steeping a teaspoon and a half after waiting a few minutes after boiling, this one is so good. The quality of Kenyan teas is NOT why most Kenyan teas go through the crush-tear-curl process. I rarely see a Kenyan tea that isn’t CTC. But Kenyan teas have a flavor profile all their own that I just love… it just sometimes doesn’t need the astringency of a CTC. I had a non-CTC Kenyan tea the other day that had more malty dark chocolate notes. This one has less of that, but it is so complex! This is a medium bodied tea. Notes of plum and hay. The aftertaste is dark chocolate, more than the actual sip. One sip was even spicy! Different from the Kenyan tea I had recently, but DELICIOUS in its own way. I definitely need to have a Kenyan tea stocked in my collection at all times (and NOT a CTC)!
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Looking forward to trying this.
I have a Ugandan CTC that tastes just like Yukon Gold potatoes. Butiki’s grandpa style tea is a ctc and pretty nice, bready tea. The variety of ctc’s isn’t all one-note anymore.
Potato tea! CTCs would all taste different (like any variety of tea) but they certainly taste different than the leaves if they weren’t processed by CTC. It’s just terrible that a tea that tastes this good could be processed by CTC.
Looking forward to trying this.
I have a Ugandan CTC that tastes just like Yukon Gold potatoes. Butiki’s grandpa style tea is a ctc and pretty nice, bready tea. The variety of ctc’s isn’t all one-note anymore.
Potato tea! CTCs would all taste different (like any variety of tea) but they certainly taste different than the leaves if they weren’t processed by CTC. It’s just terrible that a tea that tastes this good could be processed by CTC.