Nov 30
Review: Mighty Leaf Chocolate Orange Truffle
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 | "The brewed tea was, for me, just a bit disappointing because the chocolate flavor was weaker than I would have preferred. The citrus flavor provided a nice finish to the end of each sip, although I also tasted bitter notes to this tea, perhaps most comparable to burnt coffee."
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Mighty Leaf's Chocolate Orange Truffle tea is a black tea that is part of their award-winning truffle tea collection. Previously, I only had the Pu-erh truffle which failed to win me over, but only because I really detest Pu-erh tea. The chocolate orange truffle tea is described by Mighty Leaf as a blend of Madagascar vanilla, chocolate cacao nibs, and orange peels blended with Ceylon and China black tea leaves. Being a self-admitted chocoholic, this tea sounded right up my alley, and I couldn't wait to brew myself a cup. In fact, after just receiving my latest batch of samples to review, I wasted no time in immediately brewing Mighty Leaf's Chocolate Orange Truffle tea as my first new sample to review. The smell of the tea is just shy of heavenly, with a wonderful mingling of sweetness and citrus. The sweetness is more of a general sweetness than a chocolaty sweetness, but still the faint aroma of cocoa is definitely detectable. I steeped the leaves for just over three minutes in boiling water; these are pretty standard parameters for brewing black tea and are also the recommended guidelines on Mighty Leaf's web page. The brewed tea was, for me, just a bit disappointing because the chocolate flavor was weaker than I would have preferred. The citrus flavor provided a nice finish to the end of each sip, although I also tasted bitter notes to this tea, perhaps most comparable to burnt coffee. In the end, this tea was certainly drinkable, but it simply was not as decadent as its name implies. While this tea is probably great as an accompaniment to a rich dessert, I wouldn't recommend this tea as a dessert replacement (in contrast to some other teas that are so rich that they can stand alone and satisfy dessert cravings) In my opinion, the chocolate element needs to be bumped up quite a bit for the tea to fully earn its truffle name. Also, another reason for the somewhat low rating is that I found it peculiar that despite the fact that sweet citrus and chocolate are the major flavors here, I was compelled to add sugar to the tea. This could have been more of a response to the bitter overtones of the tea rather than to the lack of natural sweetness, but either way, this tea seems like it should be able to forgo sugar additions. I don't think I will be buying this tea for myself, and while I won't outright discourage others from giving this a try, I do think that there are better chocolate-orange blends out there.
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