Red Fruit Melange

I've been meaning to do a post about this new tea flavor for a while. This is a fruity black tea. I'll admit that I like fruity green teas better, but there are a few fruity black teas I like (like peach ginger black tea). This was the tea my friend tried at the tea shop. It smelled so good I decided to get a bag to try. Also, I tend to get teas that evoke summer in the late fall/early winter. In fact, this year I debated getting a bag of jasmine green tea just so I could have a floral tea for winter. Before I got too carried away, I got Darjeeling instead because it has floral notes without feeling like I'm drinking perfume.

There's no specific fruit this is supposed to be flavored like. There is a generic fruity scent when you open the bag, and there are little colored bits interspersed with the black tea leaves.

I cheated and used a wire strainer basket to brew this instead of the ceramic one since the leaves are so fine. The tea has a pleasant fruity taste for the dark days of winter. Here's hoping warmer weather finds us soon!