* Nothing. It just lets out a little wine.
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 14 – Mistletoe and Wine
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Today’s advent tea is Mistletoe And Wine. And thanks for the earworm, Bird & Blend. I now have Cliff in my head. And now, I imagine, all of you do too.
It’s another fruity one. We’ve got hibiscus, cinnamon, apple pieces, cloves, lime leaves, red peppercorns, rose hips, orange peel and sprinkles. The odd thing about this tisane is its colour. It’s an inky blue to start with and then it gets redder as it infuses.
Before checking the ingredients, I assumed that it had blue pea flowers in it, because its colour-changing performance reminded me of Bird & Blend’s Blueberry and Peach. I have no idea where the blue is coming from. Maybe the sprinkles are blue. (The decorative sprinkles effect is a bit lost when you’re having the tea in teabag form.)
It’s not bad as these things go. It tastes like hot Ribena. I suspect that this is down to the sugary sprinkles. Maybe I’d be more tolerant of all fruity tisanes if I put sugar in them.
But yeah, you know that thing I said at the start of December about how Bird & Blend should do an advent calendar that only contains Camellia sinensis brews? I still stand by that.
Tea Ranking
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Salted Caramel Lebkuchen (13th Dec)
- Panettone (11th Dec)
- Banana Bread Chai (12th Dec)
- Fairytale of NY (9th Dec)
- Poppin’ Xmas Butter Toffee (6th Dec)
- Candy Cane (5th Dec)
- Winter Is Coming (4th Dec)
- Peppermint Hot Cocoa (3rd Dec)
- Mistletoe and Wine (14th Dec)
- Christmas Cranberry Pie (1st Dec)
- Cherry Cola Bottles (10th Dec)
- Mulled Cider (2nd Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
