1024 Tasting Notes
Um… yeah. Uh? Basically a mash-up of RC and EG, which is weird.
Not awful. Just weird.
Don’t give this to your grandma.
My brain is confused by this combination. I’m not seeing how it would come together coherently at all! It sounds weird indeed.
Yeah it’s super weird. It’s essentially like pouring a cup full of half earl grey, half russian caravan. There’s no real melding of flavour. Good way to wake your tastebuds up? While they’re going UMM WHAT THOUGH
I’m not sure what’s so supermood inducing about a fruity green blend but then I’m biased against greens so not the best mindset going into trying this one from a recent Monstrositea box. HMM. Recommended as a cold brew so I’ve got the rest of my sample steeping, but it also says cold brew overnight and I find greens still get too astringent if steeped longer than 3-6 hours.
Right, I pulled my finger out and added the last three months’ of Monstrositea samples to my cupboard, in an effort to light a fire under myself and get through them. I’ve been so focused on sipping down the cupboard that I’ve been largely ignoring the monthly samples as they roll in and that just won’t do!
I went for this one first soon after filling the cupboard up, because the description intrigued me. As did the taste once I got to it! Intriguing and a little confusing… fresh minty but sweet fruity with a nice black base. Definitely one for someone with a more adventurous tea palate but I had a lot of fun with it.
Huh.
You know what? This is actually TOO sweet. Whatever sweetness they’ve plied on here, it’s taken it way over the line. This is a candy drink, this isn’t a herbal/fruit infusion. Just settle down, T2. Seriously, they’re headed more and more in this direction lately. I went in the other day to try all the CHRISTMAS/December limited edition blends and as much as I love the butterfly designs and the beautiful tins, the teas themselves were too sickeningly sweet and made up of like twenty different ingredients. Take a fucking chill pill, T2, I’m pretty done with you lately.
I didn’t like any of those new blends either! They seem to be more miscellaneous food items than actual tea.
It’s so disappointing!
Got to agree with both Cathy & yourself the last couple of limited releases seem to be moving into Teavana food/sugar/artificial flavour territory. Throwing choc bits & sugar brittles seems to be taking an easy option. I apprieciate that it takes a lot of testing and combining to make natural flavours balance and still be sweet without beiung sickly, but Where they succeeded with their Chai & Cherry Limited Editions this year the failed IMO with their chocolate Limited range as well as banana Limited range.
And as a reward for hitting under 50 teas in the cupboard, I had a delicious mug of my heart’s blood, from what’s left of my dwindling stock.
Time to restock this, and maybe try a few other bits and bobs from Davids. Any USA or Canadian pals willing to be my tea mule and post some down to me? I’m happy to pay either in cash or in trade for Aussie teas! Hit me up via PM xx
And with the last glass from the 2L jug, Sunny’s all out! I can’t believe I’m under 50. I’m a girl on a mission. Nothing can stop me. I can’t even stop myself.
Sunny was great, definitely best iced or cold brewed, sweet and fruity and super enjoyable. But I’m hesitant to order from More Tea again, because I got three blends from them (as well as the beautiful but delicate glass tea bottle) and Sunny was the only one I liked—the other two blends were blerg. More Tea don’t sell samples so without being able to try before I buy, I don’t think I’ll be back. They didn’t even respond to my mail asking about samples. Sigh.
