The Tea: The tea has an unusual taste. It tastes like edible gunpowder from the Gunpowder tea (a special Chinese tea rolled into pellets), earthy from the pu erh dante (a fermented tea), and a bit like the smell of hazelnut coffee from the hazelnut. I can imagine this is how Lestrade smells when he arrives at a crime scene: coffee, leather and gunpowder. It reflects his serious personality, but undying loyalty to Sherlock.
Serving Recommendations: I steeped this for just four minutes and added sugar.
How much is it and where can you get it? You can find this tea at the Adagio website. I bought this tea in a sample set which was about $22 including shipping and you get a goodly amount of tea since you only need about a teaspoon per cup.
So how good is it? This was probably my least favorite tea of the set, but it was still a very interesting tea and fits Lestrade. I probably won’t drink it too often.
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