Sweet Canadian

Ok I think it is safe to start my daily 24 Days of Tea tasting notes. If you haven’t opened yours yet today, well you need to get on that.

I had this tea yesterday morning as well, but I think I brewed it up more nicely today. Made it as a latte both times. It is quite delicious, and a great way to start off the holiday season. I ALWAYS forget this one is low caffeine though, who knew? It has a rich, sweet, buttery flavour that will please any pallet. I think my mom liked it too (I gave her the advent calendar for her birthday so that she could try a bunch), her comment was yes this is quite a nice black tea. It reminds me a little bit of Brazillonaire in its richness.

I might have more of it this evening. I’m in the middle of paper writing for the end of the semester right now, and lets be honest tea is the only thing that keeps me going. I had a bunch of pinapple oolong today as well.

More daily reviews to come!

Finally got to try this one today. My lovely friend who works at Davids made me it iced with Aguave. She said the key is to brew it for only a minute, and I think she is right. It reminded me a lot of iced green teas that you buy in the bottle, but it was still really good. I would love to try it with some carbonation to see how it tastes.

I seriously think this is underrated as far as Davids blends are concerned. It is by far my favorite oolong that I’ve had from them, it just has since a nice pineapple-y flavour and is amazing hot or iced.

I think I am easy to please when it comes to Chai tea. And I really under appreciate/neglect them, so if anyone has any excellent chais they want to recommend I would be a happy panda :)

Got this one as a sample with my online order. I haven’t tried many of Davids chais outside of the seasonal ones. But this makes me want to try more, I just love the spice so much. It is a great thing to have on a winter’s night, and since it just snowed here I wish I had more.

Thank you @Tea from Taiwan for this sample! I definitely enjoyed it.

The tea had a beautiful delicate yellow colour, and smooth milk oolong flavor. I found the more I steeped it the more the sweetness came out. I was able to do it 6 times, and could have probably kept going but then my leaves would have been a few days old. I am looking forward to trying the other samples you gave me.

This is one of my favorite mates, and reminds me of morning because of its delicious orange juice aroma. You just take a whiff of this tea and the morning and its magic.

The taste is not for everyone. It can be very bitter (I don’t know if that is just because of how I steep it, but I like it either way) but still fruity. I would say I prefer it to Simply the Zest, but I think they are both on even footing to me. If I want something more refreshing than chocolate rocket in the morning I’ll have this.

This is by far one of my favorite herbal blends, which is why I stocked up before I left the UK. It is very warming and not overly sweet, but still has a strong chai flavour. I would drink it any winter night.

I just don’t love this one as much as everyone else. As far as oolongs go I think it’s just ok. I am trying to get through my tin of it so that I can get some The Skinny, Milk Oolong, and Vanilla Orchid.

I think it has a nice peachy taste, but it doesn’t seem as smooth or as fresh as other oolongs I like.

Update on my cookie dough escapades, I think you need to steep this one a fairly long time for the full flavour to be there, and it is especially good with sweetener/milk. Still not my fav latte, but I like it a lot better than when I first had it.

This is actually one of my favorite herbals so I’m surprised that it has such mixed reviews. But I’ve come to the conclusion that I like hibiscus and I like ginger, so I think that is why I feel this is such a winning combination.

NEWSFLASH though. The reason I am reviewing this now is because I have a new favorite tea hobby. I’m trying to cut out calories from alcohol/sugary drinks. And I have a lot of gin/tonic around because I was really into them over the summer. So my new fav thing to do is to use the steeper to brew an herbal (I’ve tried Kanpe, Pink Flamingo, Goji Pop, and this one so far), place some gin and ice in a cup, pour the hot tea over the gin/ice, and then top it up with tonic. DELISH! Such a great drink and not as sugary as anything else that I would have flavoured.

Now to this tea. I love the ginger, I love the smell, and I love it hot or iced. Hot especially though, it has a sweet ginger flavour that I feel makes ginger tea better.

Ah Sleigh Ride my old friend. I remember you from last years advent calendar. Like a more intense, fruity, and tart version of forever nuts. On resteep tonight I found it tasted exactly like forever nuts. I will now refer to it as 2 teas in one. Getting a tin soon :)

I picked up this one today with the other two holiday teas. I love all the gift sets DavidsTea has come out with this year.

This one is sweeter than Elf Help. I like it, but I don’t know how much I’ll end up drinking just because I’m not really a regular green tea drinker. I would rather have a nice oolong.

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This is by far my fav tea of the month from the last bit and my fav flavoured oolong. I love pinapple though so I’m bias. It took me completely by surprise, my hubby and I were driving across Canada going to every Davids along the way, and this was the tea of the day. I was like WOW THATS GOOD so when we got to our new home I got a tin.

It’s sweet and fresh, really smooth, and just a nice to drink hot or iced. Very well balanced, I don’t get a overly fake tasting flavour, just fresh and delicious.

I had this one today as a Latte when I was in checking out the new holiday sets. Which btw are amazing, good job Davids for continuing to try to take all my money.

It was really vanilla-y. I think I like it more than Vanilla Oolong (which I haven’t had in a year). It tasted exactly like vanilla ice cream with milk and agave, which I was not expecting. I Maaay pick some up, but I really want my next oolong to be the skinny since I miss it so much. We shall see.

The dry leaf smells exactly like grapefruit. I love grapefruit, so this should be good.

Steeped it a long time…don’t know how long. I had it going while I was finishing up another cup. The colour is a dark pink and looks nice in my glass cup.

This is my favorite out of the three fruity herbals I got to try last week, but I still find myself longing for some Kanpe. The taste is tart straight, I think it would be great iced. WAIT I COULD RESTEEP IT OVER ICE! Runs to kitchen and puts tea back in steeper

Omg so much better. I added a hint of honey to my DavidsTea Steeper, and now it tastes exactly like starbucks passion iceteas. Will not longer be drinking hot, it just isn’t as good.

I’m upping my rating on this one because I think I did it a better service today. It’s still not my fav (I wish it was more appley) but I added a hint of honey and only steeped it for 4 mins, and it was better.

The first time I made this one I thought it tasted like watery banana. Not good. My friend recommended that I steep in longer, so I tried.

It tastes like a banana chocolate milkshake! It’s pretty good, if you like Banana and chocolate you will love it. I personally still like CCC the best from the winter collection. SO EXCITED FOR THE HOLIDAY COLLECTION THIS WEEK!!

Ok I am officially having a love affair with this tea so I am upping my rating. It is so good, straight or with milk/sugar! I had another latte this morning and I literally went to bed last night looking forward to that. I want to compare it to a british chocolate chai that I have tonight, but I think I might like this one better….and the Whittard’s CC I have is one of my favorite teas of all time. Tin to come.

I was recommended this one for lattes by a friend because she said it tasted like a cheap chai. I also like it straight because of how it sparkles.

It is a nice rich cinamony tea, good straight or with milk and sugar. I don’t think it’s the best flavoured black, but it’s a good crowd pleaser since it caters to familiar flavours.

This is one of my favorite latte teas. It reminds me a lot of chocolate rocket, but with strawberry instead. It tastes like an amazing chocolate covered strawberry, and only gets better with sweetener and milk. Great tea to add to your collection if you are starting off with flavoured teas.

I didn’t think I was going to like this one. I mean lets compare it to the fall returning chai, pumpkin chai. No way it can be as good right? Well it isn’t, but that’s because it has more of a bite for winter.

In store I ended up getting some because it smelled like really intense dark chocolate. No spice at all. I figured once I brewed it the spice would come out.

This is a really deep spicy chai. It tastes like cocoa with some spice it in, it reminds me of a really strong dark chocolate bar mixed with some of the more authentic strong chais that I have had in my life. I would recommend it only if you like spicy chai teas, but it’s a great one to have if you like chocolate for the winter.

Ok so this totally smells like Absolut Raspberry. Like not even funny how close it is.

So upon brewing it has a nice redish hue. I like the taste, lemony and raspberry-y. I don’t know if it’s my favorite fruit tea that Davids does, but it is pretty good.

As others have noted there is a lot going on with this tea. I am in the middle of searching for another non-caffeinated tea that can match my love for forever nuts, but so far no such luck. I will have to have some sleigh ride again next week, and see if it can switch up my routine.

It’s tart and fruity, but also cinnamony. On first sip I liked it, but now I feel like it’s just a crazier Kanpe tea, and I like Kanpe better because it has more direction. Ah well, I still like it and will be finishing off the 25 grams I bought. But I probably won’t get anymore. I bet it would be good iced, tonight I had it hot.