Tea Tasting – The Way I Do It
Okay, so I thought I would give you a quick rundown on the way I go about tea tasting. I am not trained in any way, I’m just a tea lover who can be quite fickle and thinks that flavoured teas often smell much better than they taste. I am not good at subtle nuances of flavour nor am I particularly good at describing them, so you’re generally just going to get me just telling you whether I like it or not and if it tastes like the flavour it’s representing or whether it just smells nice and tastes like dishwater. Usually, I will use tea leaves rather than bags, as I have recently come to prefer this (especially as I now own several teapots), although I am slowly accruing a collection of teabags thanks to the Bluebird Tea Company’s wonderful policy of giving away free samples with every order and so, eventually, I will no doubt get around to reviewing them too. In future I will try, where I remember, to taste the tea after the recommended brewing time to see what it tastes li...