Review of Mountain Kenya from Mark T. Wendell

Mountain Kenya

Name: Mountain Kenya (Click on name to order.)

Brand: Mark T. Wendell

Type: Black tea

Form: Loose leaf

Cost: $7.50 for a 1/4 lb tin, quantity discounts available

Review: Wow. This was a surprise.

Mountain Kenya looks for all the world like a standard CTC African tea. The tiny leaf “balls” are uniform and chocolate brown, and don’t give up much aroma. I infused it with boiling water, figuring that it would be passable, but not particularly tasty.

(I was wrong.)

(This stuff is downright delicious.)

Now this isn’t by any means a complex tea: The flavor of this deep red, medium bodied tea is dominated by of tobacco and orange. It is fairly brisk, though it doesn’t need milk, with a slight bitterness at the finish. But it tastes wonderfully fresh, and makes a delightfully crisp, robust, and snappy iced tea as well (the orange notes really make themselves known when this tea is chilled).

This is a versatile, reasonably priced, “workaday” tea that will become a permanent fixture in my tea cupboard.

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