Queen Mary

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Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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  • “Thank you vague description that gives me no clue into the black teas used in this blend! You forced me to guess wildly at the steeping time. It was marketed as an afternoon blend, but is said to...” Read full tasting note
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A bracing tea from the world’s top tea gardens. A round cup. Good flavour tempered with malty and floral notes.

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Thank you vague description that gives me no clue into the black teas used in this blend! You forced me to guess wildly at the steeping time.

It was marketed as an afternoon blend, but is said to have malty tones, so I couldn’t figure out if it might have some Assam in it—which would have had be reducing the time a bit. Floral notes as well, so.

I find that I prefer plain black teas over flavoured. Mostly tea blends—if they’re all black tea, or some black and green teas. I enjoy them more. Flavoured blacks are a bit more of a novelty. I enjoy them a lot as well, but.

The tea is quite a deep red, and has a distinct Assam black kind of smell to it. However, the taste is very mild. …This may be because I burnt my tongue earlier today, being in a rush. There’s definite notes that do remind me strongly of Assam teas, but lighter, and there is a sort of baky vegetalness that makes me wonder if there isn’t a bit of some oolong tea in here as well. I figure that taste is what they meant by the ‘floral’.

I’d suggest taking what I say with a grain of salt, because really, my tongue is quite burnt and that’s probably scewing my taste considerably. But I don’t know, I rather like it right now.

Actually, tasting this, I think I understand more what it means for something to be ‘malty’ than I ever have drinking just marketedly ‘malty’ Assams. Huh. And this still goes down very smoothly, with just touches of astringency as it cools.

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Boiling 4 min, 0 sec
Jillian

I usually just steep all black teas (apart from Darjeeling) in boiling water by default (that’s only 96ºC at this elevation anyway). You obviously take a more sophisticated view of your black teas. :D

AJ

Oh whoops, did I say temperature? I meant time, heh.

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