Tregothnan – Rose Tea
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Tregothnan’s Rose Tea has a slightly less flower-led-assault-to-the-senses vibe than its lavender-based sibling. It’s still all about the floweriness, don’t get me wrong. It’s another brew that I would lovingly describe as smelling like a Yardley soap.
But I think roses seem more like a legitimate foodstuff than lavender, and therefore less like I’m drinking the contents of a scented drawer sachet (which as long as it has some tea in the mix, I am totally down for).
This Turkish Delight-ful tea and rose petal blend is a sophisticated, genteel sort of drink. If I were a classier sort of person than I actually am. I would recommend serving this tea mid-afternoon in floral fine china cups and saucers with some pastel coloured macarons on one of those Petit Four stacking-plate-arrangements. (Where in fact, I wrote this while drinking this tea out of a mug, sitting on the floor of the kitchen of our rented holiday home while wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants, at six o’clock in the morning, trying not to wait my boyfriend who was asleep in the next room.)
For some reason – unlike the other Tregothnan loose leaf teas – the tin for Rose Tea contained ten separate 5g foil-wrapped tea packets, rather than bunging it all together in one 50g bag. It’s an unnecessary amount of packaging for something that’s already sold in airtight tin. All Tregothnan tea seem a bit overpackaged, to be honest.
This is presumably down to their fondness for selling 50g of tea in 100g tins. A practice which is – to put it bluntly – just not cricket. Come on Tregothnan, you’re better than this. Use smaller tins.
