Tea of the Week – Blood Orange
Name: Blood Orange
Type: Black
Region: Ceylon Region of China
Bought At: Tea Gschwendner
Price: 50g for $4.90
First Impressions: Strong citrus smell, lots of orange pieces
Review:
The final tea in the first month of my tea tasting experiment came from a new company to me, Tea Gschwendner. A German company that has a wide variety of tea, I hadn’t heard of them until I received this and a few other teas for Christmas from a coworker. (As a side note I love tea as a present because you can give / get something that you wouldn’t normally try) As for this particular tea, I was a little disappointed. It has an almost overpowering citrus scent, but the actual citrus flavor left much to be desired. It was a decent tea, but compared to the scent it gives off it was very tame. There was almost no orange flavor and the Ceylon tea they used as a base isn’t remarkable. It calls for a shorter steep time than I would normal do, but didn’t get bitter when I left it in a little longer than they recommend. Overall it was a decent tea, but nothing to write home about.
My Rating:
2.5 / 5