A contrast

 Even a fundamentally not delicate tea like Barooti Assam with milk is nuanced and subtle when compared to a CTC tea.  I need to find a non-CTC tea from Kenya to make a valid comparison.  The CTC process destroys that phytins in the tea, changing the taste, color and aroma.  It seems, and Wikipedia backs this up, that CTC teas are made to be "generic" in flavor.  

Barooti Assam tea is a broken leaf tea, which results in a stronger flavor due to the surface area being increased.  However it is a "leaf" tea, which means that, in the main, the traditional method of making black tea was followed, which results in some nice malty notes and a slight floral undertone.  Granted the floral undertone is nowhere near as strong as it would be from a Darjeeling tea.

I'll be posting a flavored tea review tomorrow.



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