The official David's Tea 24 teas of Christmas thread. Spoilers of the current day's tea!

I think the Vanilla Chai tasted better than it smelled.

My first two lids opened easily. Fingers crossed for the rest. I read on a facebook thread that David’s Tea suggests putting a rubber band around the lid and one around the base and twist. I will try that if it happens to me.

Hello there everyone! I plan on making tasting notes of each of the teas, and have done the first two already. Thus far, I haven’t been too impressed: I already knew I wasn’t a big fan of Forever Nuts, and the Vanilla Chai was a bit disappointing. Looking at the back of the box, I know for sure there will be teas I enjoy, but will have to see when that comes up, haha. :)

Also, echoing that the tins are hard to open. I’m able to twist them off, but not without spilling a few leaves due to the shock of the sudden pop.

Tin #3 has been impossible for me to open thus far! Looks like it was screwed on improperly in the packaging. I’ll be using all the recommended techniques here. I really don’t want to ruin the tin though- they are so cute! I also don’t have a hammer… :P

Ack I’m so jealous. I did snag an advent calendar, but I had it shipped down to my folks in TN, because we will be there for two weeks over Christmas and that way we’ll have a variety of teas. It was supposed to keep us from bringing a ton of teas over the border, but that failed. But the calendar is so pretty and I want mine so bad! Gah!

Day 2 is a milk oolong. I’ll probably hold on to that one until my replacement kettle gets here, my variable temp died yesterday.

Not gonna lie, the last couple of days I’ve been drinking some very good Verdant oolongs, and I think it has ruined today’s for me. It just seems sort of muted in comparison. Maybe I’ll revisit the rest of the sample later.

I agree. I thought it was just me——-but last year I ordered more after Christmas because I really enjoyed it. Not so much this batch.

I have a fun story regarding the DAVIDsTEA advent calendar :)

Here in Edinburgh, a friend of mine mentioned the advent calendar to the owner of the local Anteaques shop. He was SO excited about it and was asking about all the details such as the company that made it, the types of tea that was in it etc. My friend mentioned this to me and I thought it would be nice to actually bring the calendar in to show him- so I did and he was VERY impressed. He commended DAVIDsTEA on their excellent presentation and packaging and was mentioning how he wishes he could produce something similar.

Still loving the calendar- so far I’ve tried all the teas that have been in there so far but it has been so nice to revisit some old favourites!

Is anyone else super duper behind on their calendar? =)