Tea Information:

Leaf Type:  Black

Where to Buy:  52Teas

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Taster’s Review:

This is delicious and refreshing.  I don’t know if I’m tasting peach cobbler a la mode or not … but I definitely am tasting the peach cobbler.  And it’s really yummy.

Peach cobbler is one of my favorite desserts.  There are few desserts out there that say “summer” quite as clearly as peach cobbler!  Sweet, fluffy, golden-browned biscuit atop sweet, juicy peaches and their juices.  Mmm!

To brew this tea, I went with the hot-brew method.  I brought 1 quart of freshly filtered water to a boil and then tossed in the tea bag and let it steep for 90 seconds, removed the bag and then poured the tea into my favorite tea pitcher.  I repeated this process – bringing another quart of water to a boil, this time steeping the same tea bag for 2 full minutes, removing the bag and pouring the hot tea into the tea pitcher to combine both infusions.

Then I let the pitcher cool down a while before stashing the tea into the chillbox and refrigerating for a few hours.  Mmm!  Frosty, delicious iced tea!

The peach notes are sweet and I can taste notes of buttery, biscuit-y pastry that’s been caramelized.  These flavors are evenly matched with the brisk-tasting black tea.  It’s sweet and fruity, but not too much.  The black tea balances out these flavors.  The black tea isn’t bitter, and I like that it’s a rich, solid tasting black tea.

This is SO MUCH better than one of those ready-to-drink iced teas that you can buy in the grocery store that are mostly sugar.  I can taste the black tea here.  This isn’t an overly sweetened, overly flavored tea.  It’s just a really refreshing, smooth-tasting, flavorful drink that tastes more like tea than a bunch of flavors and sugar … and it quenches my thirst on this hot summer day.  I like it.