Maailman Ihmeet (Wonders of the World)

Thanks to Cameron B for this tea! It doesn’t taste that chocolatey to me. It’s a bit desserty, but I can’t tell exactly what it’s going for. When it cooled I tasted the chocolate, and it didn’t taste like alcohol or anything negative. It’s not amazing, but it tastes better than other chocolate teas I’ve had before! It’s subtler than other chocolate teas.

Sipdown! (7 | 162)

This one is a chocolate-flavored black tea. And it does have that quite boozy “chocolate flavor” taste to it, of which I am not a fan.

Therefore I think I’ll consider it finished, and put the remaining couple of individually-wrapped teabags into my rehoming box. Hopefully the cute wrappers (featuring a Moomin with a top hat and cane!) will make someone smile, and hopefully that someone likes chocolate flavoring more than I do. :P

I got this tea from Germany and again from postcrossing. I had a great laugh with this postcard (see it here: https://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/DE-9809087, it’s Glenfinnan viaduct in the UK). It was delivered without much delay, very cute envelope and tea bag was in. But what’s this. It looks like some tape… and there is a piece of paper?

It was opened by German customs, including the tea bag, and they wrote me they didn’t found anything that was due to customs! So, I have a customs opened tea bag in my collection! German customs wrote the apology in my native language and explained it well.

Back to the tea: I don’t remember trying this tea four years ago; though it’s possible I had it. The taste after, rather short, steep was very nice. I haven’t noticed much of the base, as usual from Nordqvist flavoured teas… but the chocolate and truffle flavours are well done. I hate to say it, but much better pronounced than in the Plum Deluxe cup of tea.

It’s quite rich in chocolate and I actually really liked it, way more than I would expect from simple Tove Jansson Moomin tea bag. It’s though, a bit simple chocolate flavoured; nothing more here. If truffle? Yep maybe… but still, somehow missing the depth of flavours. But it’s just a tea bag. For some, it could be maybe too artificial though!