Name: CocoCaramel Sea Salt
Brand: Teavana
Primary Type: Herbal
Dry Scent: This smells absolutely delicious, like walking into a high-end chocolate shop. There's chocolate here, obviously, and the sweetness of the caramel, along with nuttiness and just a hint of herbal sweetness from the anise seeds and licorice root. This is a tea that one could sit and just breathe in for hours without even steeping it or anything.
Steeping Time: 5-6 min
Steeped Flavour: Not quite as sweet as it smells but close. This almost tastes like watery hot chocolate, with extra sweetness and the nut flavours making it just a little richer. This probably would do better with a little milk or cream, but since I don't take my teas that way I do find it a tiny bit thin. If steeped too long, the anise and licorice flavours become stronger, so beware for those who dislike those, but for me, it just adds to the sense of drinking "essence of chocolate shop". This is a very tasty tea indeed!
Food/Drink Pairings: This doesn't really need to be paired with anything, it is dessert on its own, but I would say that it would go very nicely with anything chocolate, like cake or brownies, and would also be really, really nice with ice cream. In fact, it would probably be incredible with ice cream melted into it, then re-frozen into popsicles...must try that some time!
Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6
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