Bird & Blend – Chocolate Digestives
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On the face of it, this tea and I really shouldn’t get along. I have, as I’m sure you know, a number of strongly held beliefs when it comes to tea and tea-type beverages and one of these beliefs is (or rather was) that liquorice has no place in tea.
Now, I like liquorice. I enjoy a pontefract cake as much as the next pontefract-cake-enjoying person. But, in my experience, making a hot drink with liquorice is a really bad idea.
Well, blow me down if I’m not going to have to reconsider that conviction and quite possibly all my prejudices and life choices so far. Bird & Blend’s Chocolate Digestives tea contains liquorice alongside tea, chocolate nibs, cardamom and fenugreek, and it is absolutely blooming marvellous.
It doesn’t actually taste of liquorice bark but there is a wonderful deep, warm undertone to the whole thing, that is difficult to pinpoint, even after you’ve actually read the ingredients list. This tea accomplishes the whole tasting-like-chocolate-digestives objective masterfully, albeit with what I would call a certain je ne sais quoi, if je didn’t already sais exactly quoi it was.
This is a rich, decadent, indulgent treat in a tea cup. I’m not saying it’s better than actual chocolate digestives, but it is hotter, more drinkable, and just as much fun.
Today’s featured book is Charles Dickens’ Sketches by Boz, chosen purely because my copy is exactly the same colour as a chocolate digestive.
