Sachasi – Dreamy Chocoberry Fondant
SaChasi’s Dreamy Chocoberry Fondant is the first of three chocolatey tea reviews that I’ll be posting over Easter weekend. Easter is, of course, all about the chocolate (or possibly spring, fertility, new life, or the resurrection of Jesus, depending on what you’re into).
This tea is inspired by Cadbury’s Roses Strawberry Dream, which is described by SaChasi on its website as “best-loved” and “favourite”. I assume this is some kind of typo, because surely everybody knows that the soft-centred fruit fondants are the least good offering in any chocolate box selection.
I’m a Quality Street rather than a Roses girl myself. The Strawberry Delights and Orange Creams (or ‘Calpol flavours’ as they are known chez Tea Fancier Towers) are always the last to be eaten. They still get eaten obviously because chocolate, but only after all the others – including the Toffee Penny – have gone.
You’d think that all this strawberry fondant negativity might be a bit of a stumbling block when it comes to appreciating SaChasi’s Dreamy Chocoberry Fondant, but not a bit of it. This tea is absolutely delicious.
It is far, far nicer than its selection-box-based counterpart. I think this can be attributed to things: the fact it tastes of real strawberries and the fact that it doesn’t actually have any fondant in it.
Dreamy Chocoberry Fondant contains Sri Lankan black tea, cocoa (husks, nib and powder), strawberry, lucuma, rose petals, blackberry leaves and flavourings. (Lucuma, in case you’re wondering, is a fruit that’s very popular in Peru. Apparently, lucuma ice cream is Peru’s number one ice cream flavour.)
This tea is extremely chocolatey. The strawberries, roses and lucuma give it a delightfully fragrant and downright decadent flavour. It’s full-on sensory pleasure in a teacup.
I may not be a big fan of Roses Strawberry Dream, but its existence has bequeathed the world SaChasi’s Dreamy Chocoberry Fondant, and that’s something we can all be grateful for.
Today’s featured book is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca was first published in 1938 which is the same year that Roses Chocolates were introduced. Also, for some reason, I seem to always pair SaChasi teas with Daphne du Maurier books.
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