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Sipdown! 109/365!

Regretfully, I didn’t sample this one in its prime. However, I think I would have enjoyed it – the only issue I had with it when I finished it recently was that there was that gross stale flavour that I’ve noticed in multiple older fruit teas. Otherwise, the flavour was pretty pleasant. Not overly tart, somewhat melony, quite generic fruity. No mint except for perhaps a cooling sensation when drinking it. Likely a good iced tea choice.

Sipdown! 108/365!

Still not a ton of flavour here. I’m going to pick up another small bit of this next time I’m at DT to see if age was the issue, as melon matcha would be quite yummy.

Sipdown! 107/365!

Now it’s a sipdown. Finished off the last package of this this morning (I had three, I believe, all total). It was yummy.

Sipdown! 106/365!

Not wowed by this today; I can’t remember what it’s supposed to taste like. It’s a fairly bold, malty black, with some pleasant pu’erh-like earthiness. Tastes like a couple breakfast blends I’ve had recently, in a good way. While it was enjoyable, maybe this last bit of it had suffered from age a bit.

My rating is pretty high here for a tea I don’t remember enjoying all that much, but maybe that’s more because although I didn’t care for it, it was actually quite accurate to the name. It remains so, with a starchiness reminiscent of potato pancakes, a good dose of cinnamon, and a bit of sweet apple. Still don’t care for it, though.

Looks like I first had this in a travel mug, which in retrospect explains my mediocre rating. However, this is actually fairly tasty. I’d forgotten what was in my mugs tonight, and when I hit this one, I was pleasantly surprised. Although it tasted familiar, I couldn’t identify the flavours until I saw the packet – candy strawberry is the predominant flavour, with possibly a hint of melon. The oolong base is a bit toasty, and actually meshes quite nicely with the fruitiness. Drank it cooled, and it might be best that way.

Upping rating from 62 to 74. This blend could probably use some tweaking, but it’s much better than I originally thought (and this is 4 years later!)

Meh. Another green tea that I’ve kept too long. Would be best used for an alternate purpose to drinking, but it’s not bad enough to toss.

Sipdown! 105/365!

Another one from Sil! ;)

One thing I’m finding very interesting about going through the second half of samples 4-6 years later is how, for the most part, my thoughts about a tea are very consistent. For example, this tea. I got a bit of chocolate and nut, but for the most part, it just tasted like a black tea. A decent one, sure, but nothing special. I figured this could be related to age – and then read my previous tasting note, from 4 years ago, where I said very much the same thing. So in 4 years, very little has actually changed. There are, of course, exceptions when ingredients have gone off, and a couple palate adjustments that have happened, but not too many. Anyhow, this is bringing me unexpected entertainment, but is not helpful in motivating me to actually finish everything off…

So it seems I have done a complete about-face on this tea! I rated it a tragic 35 the first time I tried it, due in large part to a heavy lavender presence (I commented that the tea seemed like it had potential otherwise). But if anyone’s been reading my recent tealogs, lavender and I are a thing now. I somewhat randomly grabbed this tea as I was leaving to go to my MIL’s for supper tonight, and was very pleasantly surprised to find this lavender-heavy blend – and dang, it was so delicious! It was very lavender-heavy, with a delicious green base. I wasn’t paying a ton of attention (chatting, entertaining baby, etc.), so that’s all I really got out of it, but I really enjoyed this tea tonight, and am pleased to have a few cups left.

I’m glad I didn’t get rid of all my lavender-heavy blends, because rediscovering them has been such a lovely surprise.

Changing rating entirely, giving this an 85. I want more.

Curious. This tea I was positive I had multiple bags of, but only found one, whereas others I didn’t even remember having, I had multiples of! Ah well.

Anyhow, drank this tonight and it was fine but I don’t really remember tasting it – I think I didn’t pause to think, and just drank it. Oh well. I have waffled between it being a favourite and not, probably because I’ve similarly waffled on liking melon flavouring, but I’m currently in an enjoying phase, so it was good, if unremarkable, tonight.