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One of my courses this term has an interview each week with a scientist in the field and it is awesome! The interviews have really inspired me further and just sat with me in such an impactful way.

I listened to the interview this week as my last to-do list item tonight while sipping this tea. This tea is just so good and after having such a huge conversation about environmental health with Lexa, I needed this tea and the super cool interview with an evolutionary biologist to just chill me out before bed.

I can never get over the perfect raspberry flavour, mellowed out by the sponge cake flavour that’s just subtle enough to be noticeable.

Also, this is my 1000th tasting note!

Dammann Frères Advent Day 3 (3-February 2021)

This is a lovely cuppa! The apple is clearly there, yet not overpowering. I feel like apple is often in herbals and I’m unsure if I’ve ever had it in a black tea. I really enjoy how the base and apple here mellow each other out. The sweetness of the apple adds to this cup in a great way. I’m not sure if I get a lot of the other flavours, but I’m enjoying this tea as it is!

This tea has a little floral in the scent, but it doesn’t translate into the flavour for me. The floral scent makes me think of DF’s Noël en Provence.

Lex is really enjoying this one too. I would consider ordering this one!

2021 sipdown no. 35

This is a really great cuppa. I’m enjoying it while catching up on a few ecotoxicology lectures.

The flavour is very toasty toasty, but also really clean. Thanks for sharing Cameron!

Dammann Frères Advent Day 2 (2-February 2021)

It seems like there was a mix-up in our calendars because Lex got “Week-end à Paris” and I got this tea!

This smells like those dried blueberries they add into instant porridge both dry and steeped. The taste does have hints of blueberry with a distinct oolong base. I’m not huge on lighter oolongs, so it’s not my favourite. There’s a slight mineral taste. I’m not really sure where the banana is?

2021 sipdown no. 34

I drank entire cup this without really even realizing it as I attempted to complete an assignment in R, which is apparently not the easiest thing. I also missed the timer on the steeping time because I had awesome new noise cancelling headphones on haha. Bit of a catastrophe with the tea prep today.

However, I barely took note of any flavours here! I do remember it tasting like a summery juice. Maybe some peach, which came off very realistic, and some strawberry which was also realistic. I love when companies use green rooibos as a base rather than red, so this tea already had a head start.

Thanks for a great cuppa Nichole :)

I always gravitate towards this one due to the dry scent over Copenhagen, but I really do prefer the flavour of Copenhagen.

This one has that sweet scent that doesn’t translate to as sweet in the flavour, which is nice. But it has more of a peach flavour here mixed with hints of tartness that could be raspberry, but peach is not my favourite in tea. It’s still a tasty cuppa, but between the two Copenhagen rhubarb will always win out!

I’m enjoying having these teas in my cupboard, courtesy of VariaTEA. I wish the company would get back to me about how to order beyond their website glitch.

2021 sipdown no. 33

Yay for this sipdown! I sent loads of this to Cameron but still had about 10 cups to polish off myself and this is the last one!

This tea was really hit or miss for me because of the smokiness. The key I found was a long steep time at a much lower temperature than recommended, but even this wasn’t always fool-safe XD.

Alas, I will enjoy this last cuppa and remove this from my cupboard. I don’t find this tea overly memorable, so I don’t plan to re-order in the future, which means room for other awesome teas!

Dammann Frères Advent Day 1 (1-February 2021)

We are doing another advent for Lex’s birthday month, so here we go! :)

This smells very marzipan-y but cut through with a tart cherry as well.

Both of these flavours come through, but I would say this is more cherry in the flavour with hints of marzipan. The cherry is very realistic and not candy-like at all. The cherry is not fresh, but more like a dried cherry that was once fresh. I can taste the most subtle hints of ginger spiciness and heat as the tea cools, but I’m going to try to drink it while it’s still hot so the ginger stays relatively hidden haha.

Another variable temperature kettle experiment!

I never get a lot of flavour from this one, but oddly, today it tastes like a light cinnamon cookie. What?!

I think the next experiment will be tea-sipper’s idea to steep this at a shorter time to attempt to let the flavours come out more than the base tea.

I saw that Cameron and VariaTEA have been drinking this and it inspired me to make a cup.

Now that we snagged the variable temperature kettle from Lexa’s mom, I feel invincible! I brewed this one and it was just perfect. There’s a sweet rhubarb scent and while not much of the sweetness comes through in the flavour, the rhubarb does and it’s lovely. There’s also some generic fruitiness, but I enjoy it.

This is a good one for enjoying, but not thinking too hard on. Thanks VariaTEA for sharing so much!