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“Thank you, Cait, for the sample. I’m liking this tea. The dry tea was alarming because it reeked of maraschino cherries. I loved that odor when I was 8 years old and prone to stealing one or two...” Read full tasting note
“Okay, “sour” isn’t really the right word. There’s something going on here which I’m experiencing as neither bitter nor sweet, though, and I can’t seem to mesh it with my “caramel tea”...” Read full tasting note
“This was a free sample from my last Tea Table order. Caramel is one of my absolute favorite flavors, so I jumped on getting to try this. Yay, it’s one of those caramel teas with the little cubes of...” Read full tasting note
Caramel owes much of its legacy to the famous chocolatier, Milton Hershey. Before branching into chocolate, Milton brought a confection normally made by grandmothers to national attention. He formed the Lancaster Caramel Company and then sold it in 1900, thus creating the American Caramel Company. Made with simply butter, vanilla, and sugar, the taste of caramel is truly delicious.
Our Caramel Black Tea contains real caramel bits! Its sweet butteriness makes this tea great with dessert, or it can be the dessert! The slight vanilla flavor mixes perfectly with a little milk and a dash of sugar. Use one teaspoon per cup and steep for 3-5 minutes in freshly boiled water.
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Thank you, Cait, for the sample. I’m liking this tea.
The dry tea was alarming because it reeked of maraschino cherries. I loved that odor when I was 8 years old and prone to stealing one or two of these cherries from a jar my parents kept in the refrigerator. I suspect that they had had them around since prohibition. The problem with my petty thievery was that all 5 of my siblings were also drawn to the maraschino cherries, also stole a few, and hence our family suffered through Maraschino-Gate after my parents commenced a Select Committee to nab the magpie amongst their offspring. But I digress.
To this day, I find the odor a bit alarming because it is redolent of child-hood busts and childhood disappointments.
Through the alchemy of boiled water, the maraschino cherry odor disappeared and now I am drinking something that is certainly a vanilla caramel. It is sweet and rich and of course it’s a dessert tea (I take my dessert teas at all times of the day). I don’t know if I will buy this, but the tea does make me want to investigate more black caramel teas. Good cup! I’m ready for seconds.
Okay, “sour” isn’t really the right word. There’s something going on here which I’m experiencing as neither bitter nor sweet, though, and I can’t seem to mesh it with my “caramel tea” expectations. Perhaps I’m just holding it up against Fortnum & Mason’s vanilla tea.
This was a free sample from my last Tea Table order. Caramel is one of my absolute favorite flavors, so I jumped on getting to try this.
Yay, it’s one of those caramel teas with the little cubes of actual candy mixed in! It was hard to not pick them out and eat them on the spot. The dry tea smells authentic and toasty. Like stovetop caramel, none of that cellophane-wrapped stuff you got in your Trick Or Treat basket and never ate.
I used a pretty good amount of tea, 3 teaspoons, since I was making it iced. It’s too hot for anything else down here this time of year. After sweetener and ice, it got a taste test and I immediately thought of *Liberteas*’ Sweet Caramel Of Mine. Damn, I miss that tea! While it doesn’t taste quite as toasted as that, it has that wonderful lightly “burnt” flavor. The caramel is creamy, malty, and decadent.
For the price, I think this might turn out to be my mainstay caramel tea. Here’s to another Tea Table order and more samples, haha!
Flavors: Burnt Sugar, Butter, Caramel, Creamy, Malt
Maraschino-gate. I giggle, I giggle. Hehehehe.
I’m so glad that this tea has found a good (if nostalgically fraught) home!