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I think this tea is a bit advanced for me. I’m not familiar with Dian Hong, and I certainly wouldn’t have guessed it was black tea, except that it does have a hint of the muscatel you usually find in Darjeeling. The flavor seems to fall between a dark oolong and a pue’rh? It reminds me of a Nepali silver oolong I had once. Anyway, it’s very interesting and I’ll write more about it when I’ve had it a few times, but for now I’ll hold off on rating it. I’m also not sure I used the right amount of tea — it said 4 grams, which was a challenge since I have no scale and the tea is so loose and light. I used a heaping teaspoon and crossed my fingers that it was close.

Many thanks to TheLastDodo. I was lucky enough to pick this up in her stash sale. She sent me a lot of samples too (and even some tea candy!) so I’m super excited to try all this. It’s been awhile since I had a honey oolong, and I’d almost forgotten how amazing they are. This one is particularly delicious. Really high quality leaf and great natural honey notes, along with an interesting nuttiness that I haven’t encountered before in this type of tea. I’m not getting much scent dry, but once steeped, it smells lovely.

Really good! The apricot is nice and strong, the base is punchy but not TOO punchy. Pretty nice for a bagged tea :)

Doesn’t taste at all like pumpkin, but maybe it’s not intended to? The description mentions only ‘pumpkin pie spice.’ I’m not getting a lot of spice either, but there’s kind of a warm earthiness to the flavor that probably wouldn’t come from just tea alone. As the golden monkey base can easily stand on its own, I guess it doesn’t matter that this comes across as an unflavored tea.

This is the last of the Forever Nuts :( I will definitely be re-ordering. I’ve just got to have a few tisanes to balance out all these black teas, and this one is maybe my favorite tisane of all, though Midsummer Night’s Dream and Goji Pop are stiff competition.

So drinking Wonderland tea has been on my bucket list for a while. Mainly because having a tea bag with a little tag on it that says “Drink Me” is the sort of meta thing that a book nerd like myself just can’t resist. I wasn’t expecting anything extraordinary from the tea itself, so I wasn’t disappointed to find that this is pretty standard fair. The pomegranate is recognizable, albeit a bit weak, the base is ok. But the tea tag is so cute! There’s even a little picture of Alice on the other side sipping tea :)

Still working through my vanilla tea quest. On the plus side, the vanilla is present in this, so that’s something. But it’s an alcohol-type vanilla, and there’s nothing else in the tea to give it any complexity. The bag is full of chopped up vanilla bean pod, so I was expecting something a little more natural, but it’s not bad.

This tastes like those grape Nerd candies! Well, it’s not unpleasant, but I’m glad I got to try a sample of this instead of accidentally buying a whole tin of candy tea.

Smells amazing. Tastes like blueberry cake and maple syrup, which is a far better combination than I would imagine. I’m kind of happy and sad to discover this awesome tea, because it looks like Della Terra Teas went out of business? Their site won’t come up and their latest tweets are from 2 years ago. Does anyone know what happened to them?

Last of the sample. This tea smells like straight-up soap, but fortunately this doesn’t come through in the flavor. It’s a lightly spicy tea, and it vaguely reminds me of some of the flavor notes I’ve encountered in Indian cuisine, though here those notes are too weak for me to recognize anything distinctly. I’m not getting any mango.