Nothing But Tea – Strawberry Pepper
It’s Wimbledon fortnight which is that special time of year when everybody remembers the existence of both tennis and strawberries. This isn’t actually the reason I decided to break out Nothing But Tea’s Strawberry Pepper tea (I am completely oblivious to sporting events) but I figured it would make a handy intro. See, I try to be all professional about these things.
Strawberry Pepper tea contains black tea, pink peppercorns and strawberry pieces. And that’s your lot. There are no ‘flavourings’ lurking about at the end of the ingredients list. It does make one wonder why other teamongers insist on adding flavourings to their teas when you can achieve this level of strawberriosity solely from freeze-dried bits of fruit.
Because Strawberry Pepper is very strawberry-y indeed. Maybe the peppercorns help to ramp up the fruity flavour. The internet seems to be very much in agreement that pepper enhances the flavour of strawberries. Although it is quite difficult to pin down what the science is behind this.
I bet Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace MD would know. She wrote Tea: A Nerds Eye View, which has a whole chapter on how the human body processes flavours. There are diagrams of taste receptor nodules and lists of receptor genes and it’s all a very complicated business, from what I can tell.
Sadly, she doesn’t cover strawberries or pepper and she wasn’t on hand to ask. So, for now, I am going to just assume that pepper has the power to amplify strawberriness due to some kind of witchcraft.
Whatever’s going on (and I think we have firmly established that I have no idea), this is an utterly delicious black tea with all the strawberry flavour that anyone could wish for. I have used the word ‘strawberry’ about a dozen times in this review, which still doesn’t do justice to this tea’s strawberry levels. Just imagine If I replaced every single word here with the word ‘strawberry’ repeated 300 times, it would be a slightly closer representation of the summery fruit flavours at work in Nothing But Tea’s Strawberry Pepper tea.
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