Tourbillon

This tea is a mixed bag for me. It’s a definite positive experience, and I like the cup, just not for the reasons I was hoping.

The chestnut flavor really doesn’t present for me, which is what I really wanted from this cup. There’s a substantial amount of perfumed floral notes, ranging from orange blossom to cornflower (which is doing weird things in my brain, because I didn’t see cornflower in the blend), there’s also a sweet undercurrent of caramel, which sometimes presents with an almond brittle type sweet nuttiness.

As a chestnut tea, I don’t know if I could recommend this, but overall it’s a tasty, solid experience.

I really wish I had looked at my previous tasting note before ordering this one… The website tricked me!

This is quite a floral tea. But in the description, orange blossom is mentioned only in passing, and it’s not mentioned at all in the flavor list. But I would say orange blossom is definitely the strongest note here. I can taste a bit of apricot, and perhaps some nuts, but I definitely don’t get biscuit or caramel. The apricot does pop out a little more in the aftertaste.

It’s not that I don’t find this enjoyable, it’s just not at all what I had in mind! Ah well, serves me right for not checking to see whether I’d tried it before! :P

I can’t imagine I’ll get through 100g of this, so please feel free to send me a message if you’d like some!

I wouldn’t call this a fruit tea, it tastes more like the chestnuts and biscuits to me! Maybe a little bit of floral fruit, but I added cream which can take down flavours like orange blossom.

So delicious.

I would like more, please and thank you.

hearts to Shmiracles for sharing it with me!

Thanks Schmiracles for sending me a sample of this tea!

This was also a miss for me. There was flavour to this one, but not very strong and again I couldn’t tell what flavours were in it. The description lists quite a few flavours but I didn’t really get any of those. I still have enough for one more cup so I will try this one again with milk and agave or honey. Honey makes everything better :)

This tea is.. quite interesting. It doesn’t smell like the tea that I would pick up. It smells very fruity and fruity black teas just.. don’t sit well in my stomach.
Steeping and it still has that weird medicine-y smell that I associate all fruity black blends with.
Oh. Not good. It just tastes like a weak black tea with weak flavours of weak fruits. I decided to re-add my leaves for just a couple more seconds to see if I could pull a bit more flavour, but it’s just starting to go bitter. I’ll probably just use the rest of the leaves as a cold brew or sipdown and share them with my roommates.