15678 Tasting Notes
Cold Brew!
This is one of those blends that I cold brew when I know I need something really good in my life. My tin is starting to get noticably low, which does make me pretty sad so I’ve started to ration it out for moment where I just need a damn good pick me up. It’s so sweet and juicy with the most scrumptious lychee and strawberry flavours. It’s mouth wateringly yummy as a cold brew!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
Feels like it’s been so long since I last had Sweet Potato Pie, but this decadent black tea was a real moment of refuge for me during the absolutely chaotically busy week. It’s got that perfect brown, round sweetness with yummy pecan, marshmallow, and nutmeg notes that just make me borderline giddy with how well they play together!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
This is the last of the three new cold brews from this summer!
I ended up not writing a tasting note for this one initially because it’s the only one of the three that I didn’t have in my own personal tea stash, so I wanted to wait until I could retaste it from our office – just to have the taste fresh in my mind.
I have to say that of the three cold brews this year, this is probably my least favourite. It’s not even because of the green tea, which might be most people’s first though knowing my history with green tea. The base doesn’t really come out much at all in this brew though, so my main thing is just that I love another one of the Spring/Summer teas so much more and that’s Strawberry Kiwi Capri. It’s not a cold brew, but it still launched as part of our seasonal assortment and there’s no denying that there’s definitely some flavour overlap…
Big differences, in my opinion, is that I find this cold brew a lot more intensely sweet and tart strawberry. There’s still kiwi in it, but it’s just a bolder tea overall in terms of flavour and I prefer less tartness personally. I think fans of blends like Strawberry Rhubarb Parfait might appreciate some of the snap to the top notes of this cold brew because there’s definitely some similarity in style – but it’s just not personally my preference.
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
Another tea that I steeped this week but then blanked on pretty badly while drinking it. Not as badly as the First Flush from Tea Runners though, because I at least remember thinking my first few sips were surprisingly good and flavourful with a really nice tangy kind of strawberry/cranberry note but still that cardamom finish. Not sure I’m sold on this as a chai, but snap (absent minded) impression was that is was more chutney like than expected and in a pretty great kinda way!
This is one of the teas from my monthly Tea Runners subscription box. I steeped it up immediately after opening it because I felt like I needed something caffeinated and more traditional, but I was so busy that afternoon that even though I drank a large mug of this tea I didn’t pay attention to it AT ALL. So I genuinely don’t remember a damn thing about the taste. Gonna have to make it again and be more mindful…
Steeped this one iced earlier in the week and I was surprised by how unpleasant I found it to be. The peach notes themselves were fine, though pretty unsweet, but there was a real off tasting smokiness to this tea that felt out of place and more the result of a low quality tea used than the lovely smokiness I get from other Brutalitieas blends that use Lapsang. Not smoke contamination from being blended/stored near smoky teas either. Just an off note in the base…
This has been the absolute busiest feeling week that I’ve had all year, so bare with me tonight as I work on tasting notes. They’re probably all going to be very, very short because most of my tea drinking this week has been while doing other things occupying much of my time/attention…
This is something I made during the evening after getting home from office. I was craving it all day, and the deep notes of burnt, smoky sugar were spot on for me. Like very burnt marshmallows from camping, which not everyone loves but I definitely love!
Kept my steep times nice and short today which let the delicate & soft honeysuckle notes from the white tea and the often missed floral undertones of blueberry really shine. It’s a straight forward blend, but it’s hard to heat a good blueberry tea when you find one!
Tea Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/CewujtLuyuv/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQiLGReUuP0
Earlier this week I sipped on some Takachiho Koshoun to christen this absolutely stunning Japanese teacup that was unexpectedly gifted to me by two friends! Finding the perfect first tea for this teacup was surprisingly more challenging than expected. It obviously had to be from Japan but my two usual Japanese teas of preference, matcha and hojicha, didn’t feel quite right and I pretty infamously avoid most other forms of Japanese green tea…
This beautiful oolong tea totally fit the brief though! It’s quite delicate with such an intricate bouquet of floral tasting notes all weaved together; perfect to capture the beauty and absolutely ASTOUNDING level of detail and intricacy to this teacup’s design! Did I overthink it? Idk, probably – but when you have friends who go out of their way to bring you beautiful things then I think the effort is more than justified…
Tea Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/CetaVVnOPyj/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bPdIehZfF0
