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My second tea club review and I only received them today. I’m on a tea binge! I’m a crazed jewellery making tea drinking kitty fiend today.

Beetroot is a food that I hate and cannot eat. I love the colour but the taste and smell reminds me of stale water and mouldy wood. I truly hate the taste of it. Again this tea is not something I really wanted to try but I am open to it.

The scent of the raw tea is actually very nice. It’s very sweet, juicy and fruity with apple being the strongest scent with some citrus behind the crispness. No scent of beetroot yessss.

The tea once steeped is red (as expected) with a beetroot and citrus fruit scent. Much toned down from it’s raw scent, it’s completely different. As though I have steeped another tea.

The flavour tastes like beetroot BUT also with sweet apple, so it doesn’t have that mouldy taste that I associate with it. The sweetness is pleasing and the strength is rather mellow. If it was any stronger or thicker I don’t think I could drink it.

The more I sip at it with a what the hell am I drinking beetroot for? look on my face I have to be honest and say that the flavour is growing on me. The apple saves it in truth and helps it from being too beetroot like and earthy.

I will try this again as I have it in my collection but this is another one that I will have to wait and see as to how I feel about it. I may end up really loving this tea and adjusting the score but first impressions it’s surprisingly drinkable.

This was in my box for this months tea club. I did say I’m not a fan of licorice and this contains it so in honesty I was not thrilled when I saw this tea. Then I decided to pick a tea at random to try and it was this one so I felt I might as well try it.

The loose blend smells very strongly of aniseed and licorice but the ingredients smell fresh which makes all the difference. I can honesty admit that I like the smell of this.

Steeping for 3 minutes in boiling water using Bluebirds perfect tea measuring spoon.

The tea is red in colour and it smells spicy like chili. Much different to it’s raw scent.

The tea itself tastes a little sweet at first with pure licorice and aniseed notes that are medium strength overall and in the after taste the chili flavour becomes stronger and gives a gentle tingle in the lips.

The scent of the tea is far stronger than the flavour and I believe that is why this tea works so well. It would make a nice addition to my winter tea cupboard as it’s very warming.

An impressive start to the tea club when I drink and enjoy ingredients that I don’t like. Well done. That being said this is not an ultimate love for me but I may get used to it over time and rate it higher.

My first tea of the day thanks to this awful hangover, I simply couldn’t stomach any earlier.

This tea is sweet, floral and fruity with a slight hint of perfume. It’s not uncherry like but is very soft and hard to distinguish, especially compared to the overwhelming perfume taste.

It’s nice but unfortunately nothing special.

A very large fruity looking mixture with a sweet, berry like scent but also very herbal and dry.

Colour once steeped is red and the same sweet tart, herbal berry aroma.

Taste wise it matches the smell, first elements are herbal and dry before a tart/sour mixed berry flavour with touch of sweetness carries into the after taste. It’s not as fruity as I was expecting/hoping and the herbal taste is too strong in comparison. The hibiscus is rather strong too.

Not quite to my taste but it is drinkable. Something I wouldn’t wish to stock.

Quick notes on this one for now. It’s a very light strawberry fruit tea with a toasted after taste. It’s sweet but not unobtrusively and the overall strengths work very well together. Much lighter than I was expecting but it will suit my fruit and sweet tea moods. Not quite a breakfast tea for me but still a nice unique blend.

Another lunch time cold soy milk matcha late to aid my NCIS LA marathon this morning. As for this matcha it’s been something I’ve wanted to try for a while. I have tried hemp flavoured water before after seeing it in a local shop and liked it very much. Strength of this matcha is robust.

This one is interesting, I can taste the green tea but there is also something a little herby, grassy and floral there which must be the hemp. They work well together, it’s a green tea that has more depth and flavour without being too different. Very nice.

Thank you Sil for this sample. As wonderfully labelled this sample is distinctive in flavour. White chocolate is my favourite chocolate so I’m looking forward to this.

Brewing this as my lunch time cold soy milk late. It smells sort of chocolatey but there is also strong elements of green tea in there too, a nice combo. Unusual but very nice non the less.

Flavour is nice and light with creamy cocoa elements and a slightly astringent green tea after taste. It’s not as strong as I was expecting for a distinct blend but still a nice drink. Wouldn’t have necessarily said white chocolate either, more standard cocoa like.

I forgot how delicious this is. My nightly Pu Erh didn’t grab my attention because it was too mild and I began to crave dark, toasted black tea. Then I remembered I have a little of this left and boy am I glad. It’s a little sweeter than I remember but I like that natural sweetness in black teas. :)

(For a more detailed review please view my previous steeping note).

I have had this tea a few times now and each time it has been consistently mild and smooth. Very light for a ripe Pu Erh indeed. It has elements of soil, musk, sweet wood and clay.

I fear that this is perhaps too mild for my personal taste, even after upping the dosage of Pu Erh I use in my Yixing doesn’t work. :(

If anyone likes soft Pu Erh then let me know and I will send some your way.