Winter Berry Spice

Name: Winter Berry Spice


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Herbal


Dry Scent: Sweet, with hints of orange and cloves, and also fruity pineapple and sharp cranberry. Very holiday-ish.  It brings to mind mulling spices and candied peel, and baking Christmas cakes.


Steeping Time: 7-8 min


Steeped Flavour: Juicy, like sweet mandarin oranges with hints of cranberry's sharpness and mellow, well-blended cloves and cinnamon round out the flavour, although they are definitely not the major players here.


Food/Drink Pairings: Rum. This definitely deserves a splash of spiced rum in it, or maybe just a little Cointreau or some other orange liqueur. Surprisingly for a winter tea, I have a great urge to try this iced. I think it could actually be quite good that way as well, and would go well with a picnic lunch.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6


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