Driven Innocence

Something that I’ve noticed between these Adagio blends and the new Teavana blends that I’ve purchased is the leaf to miscellaneous additives ratio. My Adagio blends have so much more leaf and just feel like such a better deal in so many ways. I’m starting to wonder if Teavana tares out the bag when they fill them with tea because I feel that I’m getting way less product when I shop there. A 3 oz bag of Adagio teas will not even fit in my jars at home. 2 oz of Teavana ones are barely 1/5th a bottle. How is that even possible other than trying to say that all the fruit bits weigh more…
Back to the tea! This tea has been a great addition to my cupboard. I would advise drinking it hot because the chocolate does not mix as well in a cold cuppa. I think that the small amount of floral in this mixes into the mint really well and it is totally driven by the mint/chocolate theme. This tea reminds me of so many things, but Christmas treats from neighbors most prominently! As far as blend ratios go this one is spot on!

This tea is so great. I think every time I get a whiff of the dry leaf I am instantly transported to a confection shop. It has notes of strawberry, chocolate, mint, and some very light floral notes.
This tea is a perfect blend of the above flavors because none of them are too overpowered by the fact that it is such a melange! I think that the value for this one is also very high because 3oz/$10 is perfectly reasonable for the blend. It stands up to 1-3 resteeps and has a really great flavor. If you want to try an Adagio blend this one comes highly recommended.

I’m just letting everyone know that soon I am going to get my plain black teas together and hopefully ship them off to someone on here! I am not requiring an actual swap b/c I got them from someone else for free. But, I would rather there only be 1-2 individuals to ship to. They are all unflavored.
Back to this tea!
It still smells lovely and looks beautiful! I’m trying to get the motivation to work on my two presentations which are due next week. I am really not good at putting things like that together. But I thought that a cup of this would help! This tea has a really interesting mint hint to it that I really like. I have wanted to get more berry out of this, but my last few cups were a bit lacking in that department.
I hope everyone has a great day!

I’m trying to stick to non-milk needing teas today as I am out of milk…So this one it is! This smells lovely. I love all the stuff and bits in this. The smell on this one is very, very strong and may be overpowering to some individuals. I think that this may not be a tea for everyone.
This smells incredibly like mint chocolate Andes. This has less fruit notes than some of the other times that I’ve blended it, but still really wonderful. I’d suggest it, especially because it beats many other chocolate blends I’ve had.

I couldn’t resist having a cuppa this today. I think I identified what exactly I love about this (besides smelling/tasting/looking amazing). It smells just like this little chocolate store my mom used to go to around here. They had chocolate molds and had all these bags of different colored chocolate. This takes me right back to then! That’s what makes this tea amazing.
My favorite part about this tea is the actual berries that Adagio threw in there. The rose petals are also very apparent and do more than just look nice. There is a faint rose tint to this tea that is amazing. A+ tea.

I’ve had a very long week, hence the lack of updates. But I finally got my 1st draft of my big paper done for the semester. I’ve had a headache all week; so today is a rest day. I’m having a lovely cuppa this as my now mid-day wake up. It smells sooo nice! I think that out off the Adagio fan blend teas I’ve tried this is my favorite. This is such a great way of me to get something sweet without resorting to cake.

Tasty as usual! The smell of this liquor reminds me of chocolate milk a bit. I’ll have to try it with milk sometime, but it tastes just fine sans milk. I got some big berries in this cuppa too! Lovely and tasty!