Plum Brandy & Lemon Tea

Hmmmm.....Personally Princess feels that it has a strong taste of alcohol with lemon smell. According to Takeshi-san, the mixture of plum and lemon produce an elegance taste. Well...why this taste didn't appear on my taste bud? What's your opinion?

"An elegance taste with combination of plum and lemon.

Ingredient per person
Iced tea (Kandy tea) 100cc
Ice cube moderate amount
Lemon juice 20cc
Plum Brandy 20cc
Sugar syrup 10cc
A slice of lemon

Method
1 Have lemon juice and sugar syrup into the glass, pour in plum brandy and stir it moderately.
2 Add ice cube, pour in iced red tea.
3 Finally have a slice of lemon hanging at the edge of glass as a decoration."

*Source: Takeshi, I. (2008) Tea Blend by Takeshi Isobuchi. (萧志强, Trans.). Taipei, Taiwan: Maple House Cultural Publishing. (Original Japanese edition, Tokyo, Japan: MCPress, Inc., Tokyo, 2007) p.161