Advantages: tastes lovely with cakes or chocolate Disadvantages: if prepared wrong, it tastes rather disappointing
...seem clumsy and slips away from you and later turns out to be the catch of the century, this tea may just make a misleading first impression on you. Just give it another chance!
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Delicate_Orchid 25.03.2005 (26.03.2005)
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Advantages: Subtle flavouring, not too overpowering Disadvantages: Little on the pricey side
After trying a selection of whittard coffees, with weird and wacky names such as Guatamalan Elephant (made by elephants from real Guatamalans), I decided to play it safe with a plainer sounding tea. For this, Vanilla Tea Bags sounded right up my boulevard.
I have always been impressed with the quality and taste of Whittard's coffees, so was looking forward to trying what I had already written off as another high-class Whittard product.
The tea ... ...no initial smell of vanilla about its character. After brewing said tea bag, the scent is more apparent as the tea, vanilla and bits of fluff move around inside the bag.
The taste, however, isn't as strong as the smell. There is a slight undertone of vanilla, but not an overpowering flavour. They do taste very similar to ordinary tea, and unless I knew it was supposed to be vanilla flavoured, I doubt whether I'd have noticed the flavour of vanilla. ...
stepearce 26.11.2002
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Advantages: None` Disadvantages: Not the delicate flavour I was hoping for.
I bought a box of these teabags after a trip to Paris, where I had some vanilla tea in a wonderful tea shop near the Pompidou Centre. Rather than remind me of my lovely Easter break, it left me with a nasty taste in my mouth. There is very little, if any, taste of vanilla to this tea. It's very insipid really. I found I had to leave it to steep for a very long time, which you shouldn't have to do with black tea. On top of this it also had a slight ...
Jiggle 12.11.2003
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