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This tea is really good iced. Tastes like candy fuzzy peaches! Resteep this one for new flavors each time.

One of my favorite teas of all time! Love the creaminess of the green rooibos with the caramel. Highly recommend!

Apparently this tea is edible after you steep it, although I don’t know if I’d want to… wouldn’t the nuts be mushy? I do enjoy this tea every now and again, but I find it’s very sweet, with a slight apple pie-like taste. Not something I’d drink every day.

afternoon cuppa after a heavy meal, i always like a little green tea after a greasy meal it makes me feel a little less guilty.

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Day 16 of my advent calendar

This is a deliciously nutty tea, so appropriately named…

see previous notes…

I’m back! sorry I’ve been gone for awhile but work was way crazy… so i’m happy to announce I’ve got a bunch of stuff from 52 teas! but more on that later….

I am upping my rating for this tea!

nutty and delicious! i have a co-worker who has to drink green tea as part of this diet he’s on and of course he was doing it wrong and complaining that it’s gross and bitter… well i made him a cup of this stuff and he freaked! i think i may have converted mister Nespresso!! lol

Happy to be back!

This tea smells great in the bag and looks great steeping in a glass tea bottle, very pretty! It smells very nice once steeped, actually it reminds me of my favorite fruity drink! Loving the mis of coconut and pineapple, definately get the walnut behind that and the green tea taste is there for me, perhaps because i have the type of bottle where the tea remains inside the bottle…I really like this tea…Good job David’s Tea!

Working late again, so it’s a cup of tea to keep me warm when the furnace goes to sleep for the night again.
Strawberry White, eh? I have been known to enjoy white teas, but historically not the white teas from David’s. And smelling this very pale tea makes me understand why; their whites have a slight hit of a jasmine smell. And me no likey the jasmine. The strawberry is very much there too. It’s like a strawberry-scented french soap instead of a tea I’m about to drink.
First sip: don’t care for it. I’ll probably drink it all at some point, but this is certainly not going to be my go-to tea. I wanted it to taste a lot more like strawberries than it does. I understand the other reviewer’s diagnosis of “floral.” It tastes as much like jasmine as it smells.

This was one of the first oolong teas I’ve ever purchased, and I absolutely love it! The smooth vanilla notes, mixed in with the non-overpowering oolong taste make this one of my go-to teas for the mid afternoon, when I’ve got time to savour the flavour and colour of the tea.

AGAIN, with the over-indulging.
I made cake balls for my mother-in-law’s birthday. French vanilla cake, french vanilla icing, dipped in milk chocolate. They were delicious.
A little too delicious…
So The Skinny it is today.
The body of this tea always surprises me. I’m used to ginger teas being thin and sharp, but this has the creamiest body outside of a rooibos. I’m not used to oolong teas, so maybe that’s a feature of oolongs as well.
The last time I tried this tea I really enjoyed it, but wound up having stomach ache about an hour after. I hope that doesn’t happen again, because I plan on drinking quite a bit of this tea over the next month.
The gingeriness is pretty much all I can pick out, but it feels like it’s slicing through my mouth and stomach (in a good way) to release all of the badness I’ve been shoving into my body over the last weeks.
The smell is scary, like Detox. The taste is a LITTLE scary too, but too scary. I think it’s the addition of the “organic ginger flavouring.” Or, that’s what I’d guess.
I’m not all “Let’s drink THE SKINNY!” when it comes to this tea, but when I need a bit of a gluttonous time-out, this is a good one.

Made 2lbs of salt water taffy this week. Gave 1lb to my grandpa for his 80th birthday. The other 1lb is quickly being reduced to nothing from its bowl in my kitchen.
So today? It’s The Skinny. (Or, en français, La Svelte, which I prefer quite a bit!)
With the taste of root beer, vanilla and peppermint taffy (read: sugar, sugar, sugar) in my mouth like a coating, I feel confident that the gingery KA-BAM of La Svelte will be able to slice through to my tongue, throat and stomach and gently show me the error of my ways.
I hope so, at any rate.
Dude, you know… there’s something about the smell of this tea that makes me think of mop water. This one and Detox both. Maybe it’s the dried ginger? I’m not sure.
I mean, the TASTE certainly isn’t mop-watery at all. It’s just the smell. It’s not like I put the mug to my lips and inhale and go, “Mmm…”
The flavour isn’t amazing, but the AFTERTASTE is where it’s at.
Hot! Ginger! No more taffy for you, greedy little girl!
Okay, La Svelte.
I’ll stop. I promise.
(Now to chug my tea while it’s appropriately hot so it can cut some of the garbage in my tummy!)

Ho-lee MACKINAW, is this tea dark! It’s almost overwhelmingly dark. It makes me kind of hesitant. And I’m not even done steeping it! I was going to go for a 6 minute steep, but I pulled the plug around 4 minutes because that colour is too intense.
It smells very gingery. I don’t really smell the orange at all; just ginger. And fear. Full disclosure, I wouldn’t know an oolong or pu’erh tea to smell them even if I was told that was what I was smelling, so ginger is the only thing I can think of.
But not even like the gingery part of the ginger root; the woody skin.
Think I’ll let it sit for a minute or so until I balls up enough to put it to my lips.
It’s so dark…
Ooh, that’s unexpected. I slipped some honey in there while it was steeping (instead of my usual sugar) and left out the milk because I figured it would curdle. I think that instinct was probably correct. Even as I was going to sip it, my whole mouth was recoiling in fear, but with that first sip, the ginger slid around my mouth like, “It’s okay. It’s okay.” It warmed everything up, zipped down my throat and then left a nice cooling sensation on my tongue. Quite nice.
I can see this tea being a good one for if I was feeling kind of crappy or full (like it’s intended.) I’m pretty sure I’ll find myself craving it later. I can see why this is a popular tea.

From the description I was expecting a subtle sweetness but I think it has a rather heavy, earthy flavour, even a bit of a bitter aftertaste. Perhaps I steeped it for too long? Second cup was considerably lighter and had a honeyed aftertaste.

I put milk and sugar in as it was steeping. The colour is very mild. I like my black teas to have that roux, and this is kind of a chantarelle.
Really interesting smell. I’m used to an orange pekoe for my straight black tea (a la Red Rose.) This almost has a horses quality to it. Like, you know how horse poo is gross but doesn’t smell bad? This tea is kind of horse-pooy.
Interesting mouth feel. It’s a lot thicker than I thought it would be. Almost to the level of a rooibos. Really inoffensive tea. I can see sipping this in morning traffic and getting a tiny sliver of zen before I resume screaming at the douchebag who cut me off/won’t let me in/is driving like a tool.
It smells and tastes like there should he a substantial aftertaste, but it isn’t there. Kind of a twitching at the sides of my tongue, but no aftertaste per se.
I don’t know that I’ll rush out and buy a gigantic bag of this; I still prefer my Red Rose. But it’s a nice inoffensive tea. It’s appropriate for using to warm my body up while I’m working*.

*my “office” is an office chair at the dining room table, but our dining room partly sticks out of the side of the house, and there is INSUFFICIENT insulation in the floor for that. It’s probably a solid 2 degrees colder than anywhere else in the house. So it’s usually my Sesame Street slanket and a big ‘ol cup of tea while I’m working.

I had this to-go as an iced tea of the day today, as well as a day last week. It’s very, very rooibosy this way. Or perhaps I’m just noticing it more these days. I like where this tea is going with the other flavours but the rooibos is overbearing and not my favourite at the moment.

I’m increasing the rating for this a little, because it’s really growing on me the more I drink it. It never called to me so it took me a while to try it, and then it took me a while to warm up to it but I think this is potentially my favourite red rooibos at present.

Lately I’ve felt like I’ve had my fill of that very particular red rooibos taste, but I think the flavours in this one work marvelously well with it. The rich berry flavour and the slight floral quality are nicely balanced and tame the rooibos a little. It’s very relaxing, and I tend to drink it a lot when taking luxurious Lush baths. Lush and DT are a winning combination.

Trying this for the first time tonight.

The first few sips brought a strong red rooibos flavour. Not bad, but I was hoping for more. As it cooled a little/I continued, the fruitiness came forward. Quite nice! A nice change from my other rooibos choices.

Yet again a very easy tea to work with. It is herbal so you boil the water and it needs to steep for quite a while to get the strong berry flavour I am looking for. I can imagin the second steep will be good as well.

It has a sour berry taste but it is sweet at the same time, a bit hard to explain. I find it quite relaxing and something great to sip on while I work. It taste just as good cold as it does hot so if you forget it about it for a while it is fine, drink it down.

I don’t like coffee so never considered this one till trying it as a tea of the day in-store. I finally bought a bit last week.

This is a very rich tea, but I’m happy it’s not overtly coffee-flavoured. It has the depth and richness of coffee, but apart from that I don’t find it to be too similar. I really like the caramel notes. It’s pretty earthy and heavy and I added light cream so it feels a bit like a meal in a cup. I think I have to be in the right mood for this but like it when I am.

tried this without adding anything to it. big mistake. it was like having a mouth full of old walnuts:dry and bitter. maybe i’ll try it again sometime with something sweet in it.