Read My Lips

One of my absolute favorite teas. Winter mornings in Winnipeg are pretty much the inner circle of hell as far as I’m concerned, and this tea is my favorite way to make them seem more bearable. The peppermint and peppercorns give a very cozy, warm sensation.

This tea is so delicious. I love drinking it on a cold winter night because of the mint and chocolate combination however I also enjoy it in the summer as well. I usually hate teas containing chocolate so it says something that I enjoy this one.

I like that this chocolate mint tea is mainly mint. Chocolate can typically overpower everything else, but it seems everything else including the chocolate would rather take subtle roles. I would have passed this tea off as yet another novelty tea if it wasn’t for that.

I did sweeten this tea a little with a quarter teaspoon of rock sugar, but I don’t think it needed it, given the presence of little red candy lips, it was already lightly kissed with sugar.

Not sure why I haven’t reviewed this one yet because I’ve had it for quite a while. Anyways, I really enjoy the blend of black tea and mint. Especially after Santa’s Secret, it’s become one of my favourite types of blended tea. Read my lips has got a bit of spice though, depending on how it’s steeped which is different from the creaminess that comes through with Santa’s Secret. I’m definitely a fan of the flavour profile of this one, and it’s great as a once-in-a-while tea. However, I don’t think it will be making a continuous appearance on my tea shelves.

Unlike most people, I am not a big fan of chocolate, so it only makes sense that I don’t find this tea as wonderful as most do. In the “chocolate teas” category, I find I preferred the Chocolate Chili Chai they had last winter, which in my sense was fairly similar to this one, except for the added chili (which I loved!).

However, of all chocolate teas I’ve tried so far, this is definitely the most chocolatey, so I can see how it is so popular. The black tea is hard to separate from the rest and evaluate, but for sure it adds a very welcome richness to the blend. As for the mint, it is definitely there, but not as much as I’d like. For me, the best chocolate-mint combination had been achieved in the Mint Chocolate Maté DT discontinued a few months ago, and which was like drinking After Eights (sorry, I’m getting nostalgic now!).

I added about 10 points on the rating scale just for the aftertaste, which I find wonderful – the vanilla really comes through at that point. It remains in your mouth for a really long time and makes you want to get more and more.

Mmmm. I love anything chocolate mint and this tea really hits the spot. It smells like a cup of amazing melted chocolate, but then the sweet mint is the main flavour that hits you when you taste it. Part of me wishes that it tasted a little bit more of chocolate, but it is still perfect and definitely satisfies my cravings anyway – I even feel like I’m being a little bit bad…

(and sadly this cup was the last one left of my 50g bag and I have to re-stock…definitely a flavour that I always have to have on my shelf!)

This tea makes everything better. The mint chocolate flavour is a less sinful (but not less flavourful!) version of hot chocolate. No matter what kind of day I have had, this tea makes me feel like a kid again, cozy in my pj’s, letting the day go.

I have a lot of David’s tea in my pantry and I go regularly buy all kind of tea, but Read my lips hook me. It got me addicted. I just put all my others tea aside because there’s nothing like it. Sweet, fresh, soft, it’s happiness in a cup! I just can leave without it anymore. My others tea are jealous, maybe one day I’ll go back to them, but for now, I’m in love!

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FAVOURITE! Yep, the subtle notes of pepper and sweetness of chocolate makes it the most amazing dessert tea EVER. Just heavenly.

I’ve never been a big fan of mint chocolate, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I didn’t like this tea. I was in Tea Guide training at one of the stores, and while learning to make a cup of tea I chose this one. I followed all of the directions so it wasn’t a mistake on my part that led me to have a bad taste in my mouth.

I really wanted to like it, considering how popular it is, and how adorable it is, too! But it really does taste like an After Eight melted in a cup, and I hate those. I didn’t hate the tea, but I certainly didn’t like it very much, either. Maybe if it wasn’t so damn watery, maybe if the minty-sweetness was less balanced and more sweet, as a balance between the two just tastes awkward in my mouth. I’ll be trying it again, but before I do that, I want to give Santa’s Secret and White Chocolate Frost a shot and see if either of those work for me.