Drinker's Delight (Tia Maria)

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Product:	Tia Maria
Date:	04/08/02 (227 review reads)
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Advantages: Rich And Sensual, Only £13.99

Disadvantages: Overly Addictive

This coffee based liqueur has been tempting and flavouring my appetite since the day that I discovered it. Its warm, rich sensual texture brings relation and comfort in its wake. Tia Maria has been crowned with many respects and awards, including the gold medal in the liqueurs category of the international Wine and Spirits Competition in the year 2000.

The legend of Tia Maria is simple but crucial to understanding the origins of its name. Tia Maria was the name of a maid who served a noblewoman. When the noblewoman was banished from her home, the maid selected the most important items for her master, this included the family recipe to a delicious cordial. The noblewoman was so delighted with the maid?s accomplishments that she named the cordial after her.

Tia Maria is a coffee based beverage, one, which is grown and produced on the blue mountains of Kingston Jamaica by a company, entitled the Estate Industries LTD. Although it is often drunk alone (this is essential to fully appreciate the richness of the coffee beans), Tia Maria is the base liquid for many famous cocktails in today?s bars because of its stability and adaptability.

The production of the actual beverage is rather straightforward but the care and passion which goes into it?s undertaking is unmentionable. A collage of ingredients are grounded and stirred together to make the Tia Maria concentrate. These ingredients are vanilla, water, citric acid, liquid sugar and the ever-necessary alcohol. The mixture is left to mature and settle before it is bottled and delivered world wide to the supermarket and off licences.

The design and colour scheme of the bottle emphasizes everything that Tia Maria is about. The red cap illustrates the danger and power of the beverage whereas the crimson and gold colour scheme is respectful to the elegance and richness of the drink.

Because of the coffee factor in the ingredients, the lacquer is colour coded a dark smooth brown,
and flows like milky syrup. The texture is sticky but smooth, and the taste is sweet but remarkably sophisticated and distinct. The vanilla is brilliant at establishing a relaxed environment for drinking the beverage whereas the warm and familiar fragrance of the coffee beans will echo throughout the room, bringing relaxation and laziness in its wake.

The taste is something, which is rather controversial and dissimilar to comment on. It all really depends on your appreciation of coffee as a whole. I can?t imagine tea drinkers savouring the bold coffee additions. Now, although Tia Maria can be dangerously addictive (a fatal fact for an alcoholic beverage) the alcohol is not overly strong. One can taste the alcohol but it won?t sweep them away.

Tia Maria is delicious drink, which shall have you licking your lips throughout the night. Although coffee based, I don?t recommend morning drinking, otherwise you?ll be drunk by the afternoon. Like with many addictive products today, once you taste Tia Maria, you just can?t stop. Its luxurious and quintessential fragrance will complement the rich and enduring tastes.

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