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“Sipdown! (1 | 205) “An Ode to Tea” Alphabet Challenge – A So Mastress Alita’s sipdown theme for April is “An Ode to Tea”, and the challenge is to drink a tea starting with each letter of the...” Read full tasting note
Ingredients
Ceylon black tea, apricots (apricots, sulphur dioxide [as a preservative]), apples, ginger, natural peach flavoring, marigold petals.
Sipdown! (1 | 205)
“An Ode to Tea” Alphabet Challenge – A
So Mastress Alita’s sipdown theme for April is “An Ode to Tea”, and the challenge is to drink a tea starting with each letter of the alphabet. So I’m starting today with the letter A, and this tea sample from a recent swap!
The aroma is tantalizingly apricot, but I’m getting a lot of ginger in the taste. So much that really, the ginger is the main flavor for me, with the apricot acting in a supporting role. So, it ends up tasting quite earthy as opposed to fruity, thought there is a nice tartness from the apricot.
Drinkable, but not something I would choose, not being that big on ginger. But it was fun to try, and yay easy sipdown to start the month! :D
Flavors: Apricot, Dried Fruit, Earth, Ginger, Tart
Ooh, I love ginger & apricot… :)
I’m also definitely going to play but I don’t know if I’m going to do mine in A-Z order or not, I’m still missing some letters too…
@Tiffany – I didn’t have a tea for “X” so I think I may just skip it
I’m missing a couple of letters too, so I’ll have to figure out what to do for those…
I’m not going in order, nor am I writing notes for all of them (only the “new to me” ones).
I might play along too, though I don’t have a tea beginning with X, either. Maybe [Zheng Shan] Xiao Zhong? :D
I have had to use some creative interpretation for Q and Z for mine. I actually have the elusive X, “Xingyang Shu Pu-erh”.
Ooh, I might have a very old packet of Xingyang Mao Jian from Teavivre somewhere…