Glitter & Gold

Call me a Hufflepuff, call me a girl, call me whatever you want, but when something sparkles it makes me like it. (Unless it has anything to do with Twilight.) So this tea had me just sitting and staring at it, and oops, I let the first one steep way too long. I didn’t dare try it with a ten minute steep, so I dumped it all out and tried again. This one was much better, and is, like everyone else has said, a really nice sweet cinnamon black tea. I can’t wait to try this one as a latte using some cinnamon spiked milk!

Glitter and Gold is another one of my daily teas. It’s sweet enough that nothing has to be added, and I like the fact that my tea is a little bit sparkly! I suppose you could add milk but I don’t know if that would downplay the sparkle factor. It’s an excellent cinnamon tea!

Another good one that I wish I’d gotten more than the minimum of. I don’t want to share the small amount I got! :)

I don’t generally care much for cinnamon teas. This one is an exception. Mild cinnamon, light black tea, slight sweetness. Melds together very well. Everything dissolves completely and quickly. It’s a lovely tea.

This is such a beautiful tea!! When you get a scoop you get pretty little gold balls that shimmer next to the black tea. The smell is extremely cinammon! So strong that I was worried that it would be to much cinammon, but once again I was fooled.

After the steep, the liquor is a dark dark tea with beautiful shimmer and sparkle, a starry night for sure, it really is pretty, it allowed me to take a moment and admire the tea. The smell is still really strong cinnamon.

The first sip it was surprisingly smooth, and mellow. This is a tea to drink if you need comfort.The cinammon is not spicy at all, it is a sweet cinammon which I love. It is almost a vanilla cinammon flavor to me. This is really good and I love how beautiful this tea is, it would be fun to serve this to friends! This is going to be a keeper for sure.

Thanks again to jessiwrites for a sample.

Glitter and Gold has the aroma of fresh, hot sugary bread, and tastes mostly of cinnamon and vanilla. The orange stands out when it cools. Also, what a pretty tea: when the golden sugar balls and silver crystals melt they create gold sparkles suspended in the liquor.

The aroma is nice, cloves and citrus sugar.

It sure looks pretty in my mug. The flavour is mostly sweet, and a little spicy. I feel like I should have this with cookies, and maybe chai.

So I also had the Day 6 tea… Glitter and gold. So this really belongs on the adevent calendar. I bought 25 grams of this tea a few weeks ago becuase I was looking for a tea that was similar to toasted marshmallow and the lovely david’s tea saleslady reccommened this one. I decided to wait to try it becuase I knew it was on the advent calendar. I really love the gold balls when they dissolve in the water and create a shine. I really want to have a glass of this christmas morning. The taste is simialar to toasted marshmallow. Def going to be buying a tin of this sometime soon.

This was a sample I received from David’s Tea with my last order. Last night my sister stayed the night. We had a few drinks and things got a little crazy! And I still always wake up at 7 am no matter what went on the night before. Go figure. I opted for this tea because I wanted to make a single cup without being too disruptive.

I’m not sure if something went wrong here or not. This cup doesn’t taste very strong at all. It’s like cinnamon water. Where’s the black tea base? I don’t taste it at all. Maybe there was too little leaf in that package for a full mug of tea? I guess on the resteep I’ll try less water and see what happens.

I do have to say I absolutely adore the sparkly gold liquor though! I love love love gold glitter. Eye makeup, nail polish, and tea too I guess! Although I don’t think I’ll be ordering this one…

The flakes of gold that fill my clear tea mug dance around with ever sip!

I’ve only found one other tea that i find myself thinking about.. daydreaming about if you will. This tea is the tastiest black tea I have ever had the pleasure to try! This is a must sample if you like black tea! It warms my soul with its hint of cinnamon and the addition of vanilla, orange peel, and cloves just sends me to the moon!

TRY IT! If you hate it, I’ll buy it from you!

Has it been so long since I’ve reviewed any tea? We visited Davids Tea while in New York. The description of this tea is right up my alley, but oddly enough, it was my boyfriend who purchased it (He That Shuns All Sugar). Now I wish I purchased some for my own personal stash. It shimmers so prettily in the cup, you don’t have to add any sweetener, and just a touch of milk does soften it a bit. If the golden bits were pink, it’d be the Hello Kitty of teas. Delicious!

IT HAS SPARKLES! Eeeeeeeee!
Ahem…

I don’t usually like cinnamon but this tea is really tasty. It’s not a sharp, spicy taste – more like a smooth, sweet taste. Think spice cake, not Cinnamon Hearts. It’s nice and warming, but not burn-y. :P

Though not quite a fan of DAVIDsTEA, I have to admit that many of their creations are fun! This is a tea with shimmering gold sugar balls! If you serve this at a dinner party, your guests would definitely be wowed. :)

Taste-wise, this is a fairly sweet tea… the sweetness will linger in your mouth! The cinnamon flavour is strong too, so you either hate it or love it depending on how much you like cinnamon. I am not getting much orange flavour, probably because there is not much orange peel in my sample. This is one of the more likeable DAVIDsTEA in my opinion, because it is free from coconuts! :P

I love this tea – actually the first one I ever purchased from DavidsTea. The scent reminds me of Christmas cookies and really, who doesn’t like glittery tea? I’m not sure I taste the orange peel but definitely the vanilla, cinnamon, and clove (there’s something else underlying but I can’t quite put my finger on it – maybe it is the orange peel?). A nice creamy black tea overall.

I usually drink this one black, perhaps one day I’ll try a drop of milk, but for the time being why mess with a good thing?

Okay, this is the first time I’m drinkingt this tea and I’m having a difficult time nailing down what I like about this tea. Definitely don’t understeep it and definitely don’t oversteep it.

I’m doing something stupid and drinking it out of my tea press which means I had about 4 minutes where it was in it’s perfect sweet spot and delicious to drink… before that it was too weak and watery. After that, it was too bitter and no fun anymore :(

That is my bad, not the tea’s! I will definitely be giving this tea another try over the weekend. I think there is a lot of potential to fall in love with this one.

Oh wow. This is amazing. The dry tea smells good, sweet and cinnamony, but oh man is the tea ever so much better! First off, the tea does actually glitter! Bonus points for the cool factor, if nothing else, since I was soooo skeptical about it. The smell of the steeped tea mostly smells like sweet cinnamon. Definitely delicious, but nothing overly intriguing or different. But then you taste it…. and it’s like a gentle, sweet cup of cinnamon, backed by what tastes to me like a light black tea base. Oh, it’s so good. Why can’t all DT teas with cinnamon incorporate this delicious flavour?? I am really not tasting either cloves or orange peel – I did noticed one piece of peel in this cup, but no cloves. As long as either of these flavours is not too prominent in future cups, I think they will blend in nicely.

The only downside I can think of is that this tea is sweetened with sugar crystals/gold sugar balls. Yes, the quantity is small, and I’m sure their sweetness is critical to this great-tasting cup, but I prefer to go sugar-free. That said, I am still not adding additional sugar, so I can deal :)

ETA: Second cup, steeped for maybe 15 min (oops), is pretty good as well. Fewer sparklies (of course), and less flavour and smell, but worth it. I suspect a third would now taste like cardboard though, so will not attempt.

It took me a long time to try this because I was worried about a really overpowering cinnamon taste.
I was pleasantly suprised because this tea it light, sweet, and smooth, and it doesn’t burn like some other cinnamon teas tend to. Not something that I would drink everyday but something a little different from my norm, and the sparkles are a treat!

Broke into this tea after dinner, my reward for a long day (and a longer one coming tomorrow!) I bought this tea because, like a magpie, I am drawn to all things sparkly. That it was a cinnamon black tea (one of my favorites) was just a bonus! It’s gorgeous looking in the bag and it makes your tea sparkly – brilliant!

The dry leaf aroma is of cinnamon and vanilla. I was surprised by that, as I wasn’t expecting the vanilla to be strong. I steeped for 6 minutes (the bag recommends 4-7, a wide range!) I was hoping this would be a cinnamon where I could taste the black tea. I was not disappointed in that, and I am very pleased with the quality of the black tea (which is often lacking in these blends.) I was delighted to find the vanilla very present in the cup as well as the aroma. It evokes a baked good, but doesn’t exactly taste like one, if that makes sense. I added milk and sugar, and I liked it that way. I might try no milk next time for a change.

In comparing this to the cinnamon I reviewed yesterday (Upton’s cinnamon chai) I find this tea superior in every way. The cinnamon tastes true, not artificial, the black tea is good quality and not bitter, and the addition of vanilla gives it a lift that carries it up near the top of my list. It’s not fireball spicy, but it’s not that sort of tea. It does have enough cinnamon that I (a cinnamon fanatic) am very satisfied.

This is the first tea I’ve ever just wanted to LOOK at. The glitter is quite pretty in the light — I was jokingly calling it the Twilight vampire of teas.

The taste reminds me of Bigelow’s Constant Comment with the combination of orange peel, cinnamon, and cloves. However, the vanilla adds a different touch. The vanilla actually comes through much clearer than the orange, though. I’d like more of a balance between the two. That being said, the amount of sweetness added through the sugar balls and crystals is perfect.

Perhaps it’s just my love of constant comment, but I can’t say that this tea is my favourite without improving on the taste I already love. However, it’s a very nice take on a simmilar flavour pallette. I would love to have a cup of this while having an orange cake — I think that would be the perfect compliment, and add more of the orange flavour that I crave to taste more clearly in the tea.

I steeped two and a bit teaspoons in my two-cupper. First cup at five minutes — clear was very pretty. Second cup — some time later, with milk. I actually preferred it with milk — it added another nice layer that matched with the vanilla, and didn’t seem too bitter. However, it wasn’t anywhere near as pretty as it was clear. I guess you can’t have everything…..

To add to what many have already said, this tea is beautiful. Rich, dark tea leaves with tasty sugar crystals and glittering gold balls. Gorgeous! There are glittery sparkles that transfer to the actual water! This looks magical and I haven’t even had a sip yet!
The cinnamon scent becomes more tame while the tea steeps and blends well with a nice black tea aroma.
The cinnamon and the black tea blend seamlessly into a smooth flavor. I actually really like this aspect about the tea & haven’t tasted anything like it before. Despite the presence of sugar crystals, the tea isn’t overly sweet. I suppose looking at the tea, I was expecting a bolder cup. It’s surprisingly mild.. almost maybe a little too mild. This is still a very warming and interesting cup of tea, though. Thanks so much to Ashika for a sample of this!

Backlogging – Right after I posted that DavidsTea flavored tea was flavor with tea, not tea with flavor, I drank this one. This one is more of a tea with flavor. It has a nice black tea base that is not bitter or astringent. There is a nice cinnamon flavor to this tea. The gold balls provide a slight shimmer to the brewed tea.

It’s probably my least favorite of the bunch so far, but it’s still tasty.