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Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: David’s Tea
Tea Description:
This deep dark Chinese tea is like a gorgeous starry night, glimmering with gold and silver sugar crystals that shimmer as they steep. Take a sip and the slow suggestion of cinnamon will warm your body. Your toes will tingle and your mind will turn to fireworks, falling stars, late-night seduction. It’s basically magic. (Is it getting hot in here, or is it just the tea?)
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
This tea is really fun! The dry leaf has lots of sparkly appeal – it is sprinkled with bright gold sugar spheres and glittery sugar crystals. These bits melt when the tea is brewed to sweeten the tea … but what’s even cooler is that the tea SHIMMERS. If you look at it you can see little twinkling sparkles in the brewed tea! At first, I didn’t think I’d be too keen on having a tea with a luster like this, but, now that I actually SEE its glistening beauty, I must admit, it’s really cool looking.
And it tastes good too. This is what I’d call an understated cinnamon tea … with so many cinnamon-orange flavored black teas out there that are really heavily spiced with cinnamon to the point of tasting like liquified red-hots, this tea instead allows for the sweeter, softer side of cinnamon to be experienced.
I like that it is sweet, but not too sweet. I like that it has a warmly spiced character, but it isn’t bombarding my palate with overwhelmingly strong cinnamon flavors. I like that I can taste each component to this tea: I taste the cinnamon, the clove, the vanilla, and the orange … as well as the black tea. These flavors all come together in a nicely rounded tea. Very enjoyable, indeed!
