Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: 52Teas
Tea Description:
This week’s tea of the week tastes like rich pumpkin pie with a crust made entirely of sweet, delicious toffee. I don’t know if anyone could really make a pie like that, but I would love to try one. In the meantime, I’m going to continue enjoying rich sips of this yummy tea. The Dragonwell green tea adds just the right notes of sweet nuttiness to compliment the toffee and contrast with the pumpkin. All in all, this is a really special treat you’ll love serving to your guests, if you’re generous enough to share.
Learn more about this blend here.
Taster’s Review:
YUM! A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed 52Teas Ginger Pumpkin Cheesecake Honeybush, and I really enjoyed that. So I was a little surprised when 52Teas announced another pumpkin tea so soon after the honeybush tisane, but, I’m certainly glad that Frank (the chief Zoomdweebie at 52Teas) decided to blend this Pumpkin Toffee Dragonwell Green Tea Blend. It’s so yummy!
With this blend, I can taste more of the pumpkin-y flavors than I remember tasting with the aforementioned honeybush blend. Perhaps it’s because there’s not so much emphasis on the spices in this blend, that it allows more of the squash flavor to come forth. Or perhaps it’s the Dragonwell green tea base that melds in a very beautiful way with the pumpkin notes. Then again, it could be a combination of these two things.
All I know is that with the very first sip of this tea, the pumpkin was a strong flavor. I taste notes of spice as well, a softer cinnamon note and perhaps a hint of ginger too. The spices here are gentle, just enough to accentuate the pumpkin without the tea becoming all about the spice.
And then there is the toffee. Let me say that again, because I didn’t emphasize: And then there is the TOFFEE. I’ve got to tell you, that as soon as I read the name of this blend … my mouth began to water and my taste buds began to dance the happy dance. I love toffee, and the idea of a toffee pumpkin pie makes me want to go out and FIND THAT PIE. I mean, seriously? How much yummier can you get than a toffee pumpkin pie?
And the toffee notes are nicely portrayed in this blend. It offers a sweet, buttery, caramel-y sort of flavor to the pumpkin without overwhelming the other flavors here. This cup offers just the right balance of pumpkin, spice, toffee AND green tea notes to satisfy the green tea lover’s sweet tooth.
I like this served hot, but, it is also quite good as it cools. After I finished my first cup, I went to my teapot which had about a half a cup of tea left in it, so I poured that (because I didn’t want to waste a drop of this yummy stuff!) and it was cold. Maybe not ice cold, but, it certainly was not hot or even warm. And all the flavors were still present and accounted for. So this one can be served hot or iced and still be tasty!
