GreyJedi

This is currently my go-to tea. When I’m heading out to class in the mornings I steep a thermos full of this tea and bring it with me. I keep meaning to try it with a little bit of sweetener, just to play around with the flavour a little, but I’m usually too busy drinking it right away to bother with sweeteners.

I think the other teas in my collection might start getting jealous if I don’t start spreading the love.

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I make no secret of the fact that I harbour vast levels of hatred for the flavour of anise, so I deliberated for quite a while before actually trying this tea. When I smelled it in the store, I came to the conclusion that it would be worth a taste.

It pleases me that I decided to try this tea, in spite of the anise listed. In all honesty, I didn’t taste anise at all, which definitely helps this tea rack up favour with me.

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The scent of this tea reminds me of a very artificially flavoured kiwi lip balm I had when I was…five?… Not exactly the sort of thing I would expect to think about when trying out new teas.

I never much cared for the flavour of that lip balm, and nor do I care for the taste of this tea. I wound up downing it as fast as I could just to empty my mug for the purposes of brewing a cup of tea that I would rather be drinking.
Definitely will not be picking up more of this once my tiny screw-top canister is emptied.

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At first I was nervous to drink this tea given that the scent reminded me ever so slightly of Gail’s Organic Cold Remedy, but I had to give it a shot since it came from my calendar and it would just be a shame to forgo one. (Sometimes the thought of getting a new tea is the motivation I need to haul my butt out of bed right now.)

Imagine my pleasant surprise then, when I find that this tea tastes pretty well nothing like the cold remedy. It’s still not, in my opinion, the most delicious tea I’ve ever had, but frankly it could have been a lot worse. I’m glad to say that the lemon grass does not over power this tea which is making for a much more enjoyable drink.

Perhaps it’s just because I don’t really drink a lot of green tea, but this tea did not appeal to me in the slightest. I enjoyed the spicy aspect of it, and the smell of it is quite appealing, but that seems to conclude the good things I can say about it.

By the time I finished my mug of this tea, it had reached a state of lukewarm, which certainly also did not help flavour my opinion of it as I found it difficult to drink without gagging at that point.

I will be giving this tea another chance as I still have quite a bit of it in the tin from my advent calendar, but at this point I cannot see myself enjoying it or giving it a permanent home in my tea collection.

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This is a lovely rooibos tea, nice and light. There’s a lot of sweetness to it already, which means that it doesn’t really require much, if anything, in the way of sweetener. That’s a definite upside to me, since I’m in a mood where I want sweet things, but don’t actually have anything in my apartment to satisfy the craving.

It makes me sad that I’ll likely only be able to get one last cup of this out of the advent calendar tin, since it really is a lovely tea.

This may be one for the shopping list.

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The smell of this tea alone is entirely enchanting to me. I love the scent of amaretto.

I find that this tea does not have much in the way of colour when it steeps and I often find that I steep it longer to accommodate this fact.
It works well with a touch of sweetener, though I often forget that I am allowed to sweeten my teas and tend to drink them straight. That being said, it’s also quite nice on its own.
Even with my extended steep time, I find that it still retains a nice light flavour.

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