Brand: David's Tea
Primary Type: Green
Dry Scent: Tea roses. Definitely heavily-scented tea roses. This smells like a bouquet or an eastern perfume, and also reminds me very much of lokoum, aka Turkish delight. The proper stuff made with rosewater. Purely beautiful!
Steeping Time: 3-4 min
Steeped Flavour: Unsurprisingly this tastes very much like rosewater sweets. The perfume of the rosepetals is there, but also the sharp, bright acidity of the rosehips, and all of it is balanced out by the slightly grassy or sea-side flavour of the green tea. This could end up a bit cloying, but everything manages not to overpower everything else, so we end up with a cup of pure, warm rose garden.
Food/Drink Pairings: This would probably be good with something delicate, like cucumber sandwiches or maybe smoked salmon. Definitely a "high tea" kind of vibe to this tea. Actually, what might be really, really beautiful is if you managed to get ahold of some crystalized sugar rosepetals and put one or two into a cup of this tea to lightly sweeten it. Gorgeous! This tea probably would not pair well with most main courses, and definitely would not cut through any heavy desserts, but just the whisps of steam coming off it smell high-class and decadent. I would also love to try this with patisseries. Hmm...any excuse to get my hands on a few patisseries!
Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6
Buy/Don't Buy
I'm putting a "buy" recommendation on this, but keep in mind, if you don't like floral perfumes, you might not like this. It's very floral. In fact, I'd almost call it "aggressively" floral! So if you're the type who can't stand a jasmine green tea, don't go for this. If, on the other hand, you love the scents of flowers...do itttt!
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