Vendor:
The Plume Room
Liquid: Toasted Turkish Twist
Vendor Description: "This has all the tasty tones of turkish with occasional toasted notes & a high kick at the end."
Thoughts: I have always thought that most "Turkish" liquids were all generally the same. This one is billed as different and it is. Seeing as how Turkish is a more mild tasting leaf, this
juice adds some extras to it that take it on another journey. Turkish juices, to me, all have an element about them that triggers signals in my brain that register as "citrus." This
juice adds a "twist" which, in my mind, capitalizes on that citrus like element symbiotically. I have no idea what the twist is, but it adds a certain rising zip to the
juice that is slightly sweet, but acidic, bright, and zesty.
The "occasional toasted notes" are in fact occasional, but not hidden per se. What gives the juice a toasted quality, once again, I don't know. Turkish tobacco is sun-dried, but this
definitely has a toasted aspect which accentuates and drives the sun-dried qualitites. The "toasted" parts of the juice give it a more dark, grounded feel.
The actual tobacco, or "Turkish" part of the juice shifts from being a solo tobacco to a tobacco/other flavor mix. Since Turkish tobacco is not very forthcoming, it may be a little harder to follow its direction. When I find it, it abruptly stops, which is netither bad or good, just a reality.
All in all, I find this juice to be worth writing about. I get some juices that are good, great, or even phenomenal, but for some reason they just don't inspire thought. This juice inspires thought. My thoughts about this juice are as multi-directional as the taste(s) of it. I haven't had many juices that had several elements in it that were able to be latched onto and isolated for introspection like this allows. Many of Andrea's juices are like that: mulit-faceted, whimsical, and creative. Hopefully this makes sense, but I can tell there is a woman's touch to this work.
This picture is how 3T manifests itself to me.