Brand: David's Tea
Primary Type: Black
Dry Scent: This smells of baking or mulling spices; hot, sweet cinnamon, sharp, bright cloves, and dusty, warm ginger with a hint of apple. It smells like the kitchen in Old Town, for anyone who's ever been to the Royal BC Museum. Super comforting on a miserable, wet day.
Steeping Time: 6-7 min
Steeped Flavour: This tastes like gingersnap cookies, gingerbread or spice cake, but most strongly it reminds me of gingersnap cookies. The ginger and cinnamon are front and center, and then there are hints of molasses and a sortof doughy flavour left in the mouth, a little like the flavour you get when you sneak a bite of the Christmas baking before it goes in the oven.
Food/Drink Pairings: This would be nice with any cream liqueur, although I MUST try it with my eggnog cream... It would probably also make a very sophisticated cocktail iced with goldschläger and some ginger liqueur. Maybe rim the glass with demarara sugar... As far as food pairings, this is PERFECT for cookie-dipping, and would also be nice with spice cake or apple pie. Probably pumpkin pie too.
Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6
Buy/Don't Buy
Buy/Don't Buy
Note that this is one of DT's fall teas, and as such, it won't be around forever. Get it while you can!
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