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As soon as I saw the post about this I was excited to get it. I really was not expecting my month of teas to come today but since I slipped twice while walking to get the mail I will so take it!

Even before I even let this just let the flavors meld in the package for a couple of weeks, it is SO good. I don’t think it tops the marshmallow treat genmaicha but it’s up there. The cherry flavor tastes like cherries, and I get just the right cheesecake tang. It’s like a cheesecake with a toasty crust, topped with tons of cherries. This will make an excellent dessert tea….or an afternoon tea because you’re too excited to wait.

Final thought: Whoa. What if you infused butter with this tea and made a cheesecake crust? I did get a springform pan for Christmas!

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I am possibly losing my mind or something but I have decided to start cold steeping things that might be horribly bad cold. But really the idea of cold steeped oolong was fascinating so I did this one and I’m letting this other one steep a whole day first.

So this one steeped about 14 hours and I actually like it a lot better cold than hot. Weird. It was just orange to me before. I get the oolong now, and a nice woodsy taste, even the leather mentioned in the description.

Thanks for working so well like this, Orange Blossom Oolong, you have now opened up a whole new world of crazy ideas to spill next….muahahahaha.

I really don’t know why I got this, I guess I was just fascinated by it. But I think I will stick with green gunpowder tea.

It’s pretty bold, which I don’t mind, but the smoky flavor is just really off putting. It’s not like full on smoky but at the same time it’s not just subtle. Those would be okay. But right in the middle just ugh. I might see about steeping it a shorter time and see if that helps.

This is okay, I think I would like it stronger. But I’m not really a fan of black/green mixes. The mint and vanilla are both really good, I just wish there was more to the tea flavor.

On the plus side I got my boyfriend to drink some of this :O PROGRESS. It probably wasn’t the best of things though getting to this point started with some tea at a Chinese restaurant last night.

Soooo….I may have just bought two hockey tickets to two games in Florida. TEA BUYING CEASES NOW. It needs to be reversed now…tea selling. I am going by myself and I just really need to get away, my favorite team happens to be playing there at the start of my spring break, so can you say PERFECT?

So yeah, my boyfriend bought me this because I just was picking things freely out at the store and that’s how that always goes. I realized I had never had mate and so I might as well try it. Yeah, it’s a little sweet. But I really like it with lime, it’s like this sweet, citrusy, earthy, spicy mix and really refreshing considering it was like 70 at some point today.

And I’m going to Florida yet complaining about that. Ha.

Would I get it again? Maybe. But now I’d say I’d like to have mate that I make but not for the time being, clearly.

Made this then poured it over ice last night, then resteeped the leaves for a cold steeping. I’m drinking that second steeping and I really think this is the way to do it.

Before when I cold steeped this, I didn’t think the creamy yogurt flavor really came out. After the leaves were used hot, I think it helped out on the cold steeping. I taste everything in there. It was fine brewed hot then poured over ice but it’s even better tonight. I think if this makes it to the months where it should be warm, the bag I have won’t make it to summer!

I like this better iced than I do hot. It cold steeps well. I wish I had steeped up more of it, but I never have any idea what the temperature is going to be anymore, other than decidedly unwinterlike. So it’s almost like getting a flavor I love about fall/winter while not making myself more uncomfortably hot…I am not taking my big fluffy warm comforter off my bed just yet, it’s January!

Now that my tongue is not burnt, I decided to give this another try to see if maybe it sucked and I wasn’t aware. Nope. I still like it. I can’t imagine having paid full price for it seeing as there are so many fruit bits, but it’s not like it hardly tastes like tea, and tastes more like fruit punch. It’s a bit fruity, and it’s clear there’s a green oolong in here.

I don’t think 1 tsp to 8 oz of water is enough though, so I’ll probably use more…like I don’t have any of this stuff to spare.

Oh this is so good. I thought by steeping it for such a short time it wouldn’t taste like anything. But it’s so flavorful! It’s savory, sort of nutty, and then it’s definitely sweet, and I love the dryness of it. It’s definitely got a bold flavor. On the second steeping, there is a toasty flavor going on.

I think I have one of those problems where I’m like “this is my favorite!” and it turns out everything is my favorite.

I can’t pass up a chocolate flavored rooibos, and this smelled great so I had to get it.

I didn’t realize it had coconut in it, but the coconut gives it that creamy, trufflelike taste rather than imparting a coconut flavor. I could use a bit more chocolate, because it’s more of an aftertaste than I’d like, but it’s still a good blend. Sweet, creamy, and making my crappy afternoon a whole lot better.

So there’s a new tea company here in Atlanta, and there was a LivingSocial deal for them a couple days ago, and nothing says try out this tea like spending* $10 to get $20. They have a website with far more tea than their little mall cart shop, and I guess if there’s something I like that’s on there, they can get it there so I wouldn’t have to ship it or anything since they are based here.

*Like you really stop at $20. I was actually at $20.07 and of course I couldn’t stop.

Anyway this was the first one I picked because I like Darjeeling, but I’ve only had 2 and nobody has been specific about it just like “Darjeeling” or maybe saying what flush it is. Of course, this tea is not even on their website for me to pull up all the other information but at least we’ve got all the letters.

And actually my bag is wrong because it says this is an Assam even though it’s definitely a Darjeeling. They are new so I’m sure there are kinks to work out. I wasn’t feeling good because I was hungry and I wanted to go home and the poor guy at the cart really wanted to keep me there hahaha.

Anyway this tea is good. I love the astringency of Darjeeling because I’m weird. There’s this nice floral note, and it’s kind of citrusy. I kept thinking honey at first but I have some honey that’s infused with lime oil so that’s probably where I’m getting that.

I am going to steep it a second time later and then move on to a couple others! Also if you want to check them out their website is teabar.com, they have A LOT of stuff and you can buy .5 oz of stuff which is always great.

This tea is bold and wonderful. It’s just a little smoky, and then I get a lot of fruity flavor and honey.

I’ve never had a Keemun before this and now I’m like, why? This is exactly the kind of thing I like. I liked the first steep the most because it was in your face, but the flavors are still all there subsequently.

I guess even with 2 days off the person who delivers mail to my apartment complex felt the need to do as little work as possible on Tuesday. I had no idea this was delivered, along with a textbook. Thanks for your hard work, postal employee.

So now that I have my next round of samples from Teavivre, I can get to drinking them!

This is a bit too floral for my liking on the first steep. I was hoping it’d be better on the second, like maybe really subtle, but it’s not, although it’s vastly improved now. I can at least drink it this time without freaking out that it feels like I’m drinking a flower. I do like the dryness of the tea.

I’m going to try it again and maybe only steep it for a minute the first time and see how that goes. I am just not completely a fan of jasmine, so it’s easy for it to be too much for me. I like the dragon pearls a lot better.

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Sevenberry Sangria on its own is just way too sweet and hibiscus tasting. The Teavana app suggested blending it with Blackberry Mojito. Blackberry Mojito is like the best thing Teavana has to me, so I tried it out with what I had and the next day went to get more to use w/the Sevenberry Sangria.

I think they both contain hibiscus so it’s obviously there but the mint from the mojito tea cuts it a lot. It’s VERY fruity and I don’t understand how I actually like it this much.

This much, of course, is enough to get rid of the Sevenberry Sangria.

This is interesting. I didn’t like it at first because it tasted too much like bad apple juice, which I think was just the spices and the apple.

But as it cooled, or as I drank it, I really started to enjoy it. It’s different. I just don’t think you can tell that it’s white tea at all because so much is going on.

Best aftertaste ever.

I don’t know why this is so weak, I steeped it probably closer to 4 min because it looked like plain old water still around 3. It’s definitely not as strong as I would like but…

Even though the tea is pretty weak I am getting the most spectacular creme brûlée aftertaste. And it is delicious! I hope it’s still there on the second steeping because there will be one before I get to cooking.

The dessert tea before dinner approach is my favorite.

I just had a second steeping of it, steeped for a little over 6 minutes and now it’s full on amazing. I’m actually surprised the sugary flavor is still there! I hope it’s ready for a third cup later on!

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Thanks Amy oh for this one too!

I was going to try this yesterday but I went for the coconut pouchong instead. I think this tea probably set out to be like that tea, but falls far short. It’s not as strong as I would like it, and I think a toasted coconut flavor comes out a bit more than coconut milk. Anyway I’ll stop comparing them now.

I think sencha and coconut go together pretty well, so this isn’t like powerfully flavored coconut. If it was, I probably wouldn’t like it because I don’t like a strong toasted coconut flavor. Instead I think the grassy taste of the sencha meshes really well with the toasted coconut and makes it tasty.

Thanks for some of this tea, Amy oh!

Cherry isn’t really my favorite. I’m sometimes apprehensive of cherry flavored things because it’s easy to cross from tart fruit to cough medicine. This tastes pretty good.

I have no idea what temperature my water was but this isn’t bitter at all, in fact I can hardly taste the green tea unless I am purposely trying to taste all the flavors.

This is tart, but not very sweet. And it does taste like cherries. At the same time it’s a nice, light tea. I may give it a try cold steeping at some point.

I cold steeped this and its surprisingly flavorful! I thought the white tea might be muted but it definitely isn’t. It’s crisp, clean, and fruity. I will try it hot soon for sure.

This is a lot like the White Chocolate Grasshopper Honeybush, but I think I like this one better since dark chocolate > every other chocolate.

It is everything as advertised, just like the ice cream flavor, sweet, minty, chocolatey, but nice and warm so you don’t have to be cold. Probably a good way to cure ice cream cravings if you’re like me and hate eating it in the winter. Oh who am I kidding, I always eat it anyway.

I finally got a teapot warmer and I love it so much. Now I can make the whole pot and not be sad that it’s cold after 45 minutes. Yay for World Market!