Glitter and Gold

Name:  Glitter and Gold


Brand:  David's Tea


Primary Type:  Black


Dry Scent:  Sweet is the first scent that comes from this as the tin is opened, followed by the warmth of cinnamon and a faint brightness from the orange.  The black tea underpins all of these diverse scents and helps tie them together.  Ultimately this smells something like sugar cookies dunked in tea, faintly cinnamon-orange and sweet.


Steeping Time: 6-7 min


Steeped Flavour:  Before we even get to flavour...this tea has to be seen to be believed.  It glitters!  As a fox attracted to anything shiny, I love the tea for that reason even before anything else about how it tastes.  Now, pulling myself away from **the shiny!** and on to the tea itself, on the tongue there is the faint taste of cinnamon sugar cookies, and the tea taste is very soft in the mouth.  Not one of those black-tea bases that is super-tannic and makes you pucker.  The orange is there as well, making this taste a little like orange pekoe, but the cinnamon adds depth that I find orange pekoe often lacks.  This is a well-balanced tea, although it seemed a bit weak.  Next time I brew it, I'm adding more than the recommended amount of tea.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This would be very, very nice for dunking cookies into.  Because of the sugar, I don't really see this as a mealtime tea, but it would be excellent first thing in the morning, or in the middle of the day as a snack-substitute.


Rating out of Six Tails:

5/6


Buy/Don't Buy

This tea is so shiny!  Still pictures just don't do it justice, but I'll do my best to show you all...

The glitter travels along the convection currents in the hot tea, creating swirls of shimmer in the cup.  I recommend always drinking this tea from a clear cup if you possibly can, just to see more of the sparkly!