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Read My Lips from DAVIDsTEA

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83/100

Read My Lips

Black Tea by DAVIDsTEA

Kiss me, kiss me

Okay, this is probably the world’s best chocolate tea. Honestly. Better than dessert. More reliable than sex. It’s a totally decadent combination of China black tea, vanilla, peppermint, chocolate bits and spicy red peppercorns. Plus it contains little red candy lips for a kiss of sweetness. In other words, it’s a completely satisfying spring experience with no guilt or strings attached.

Ingredients: Chinese black tea, peppermint, dark chocolate, red lip sprinkles, pink peppercorns, natural and artificial flavouring*.

Allergens: Soy and dairy

282 Tasting Notes

Foster_Montgomery
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Foster_Montgomery 4 tasting notes

So I decided to test the theory that Read My Lips Tea is more reliable than sex, based on two categories: pleasure and satisfaction. According to my yet to be peer reviewed results, my highly scientific results would suggest that sex clearly triumphs in both categories! I’ll stick to “kiss me kiss me” not “drink me drink me.”

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yuki
72

Taste and smell great when it’s hot.. chocolate-minty. But because they put chocolate in it so when you brew the tea, there will be a layer or circles of oil floating on top, which may make it not as appealing? So need to drink it fast!

sugarmyu
100

This is my first tea from David’s Tea. My friend gave it to me on my birthday two years ago and I have to say it is my all time favorite. I have refilled my tin at least four times!! The taste is a perfect blend of minty chocolate, which happens to be my favorite type of chocolate and ice cream as well.
I love how it makes my apartment smell. I brew this tea at least 3-4 times a week (which makes me ignore my other teas).

jessewonderland
34

i have a love hate relationship with this one…

Nitoo6of6
75

I have tried this a few times now once as a to go cup and a few times at home with the very generous sample my sister gave me. Not bad. Chocolatey mint flavour but again would like more taste of the base. I think my taste buds must be very different from most others because this is one of my sister’s favourite teas!

Kristal
77

A slightly sweet black tea that my co worker gave me to try. It’s pretty good! But, I’m not big on chocolate teas in general (even though I like chocolate, weird eh?) so I dunno if I would purchase any.

bo
73
bo

It’s a good mint tea.
But I prefer “santa’s little helper” by davids’s tea over this,
which was a limited edition christmas tea.

I feel like they taste very similar, and because I feel like the chocolate in RML
bothers my stomach when I drink too much of it, I’d rather drink santa’s little helper.

Owlie
91

Aaah. This is one is what started my love affair with DAVIDsTEA..

This one doesn’t require much sweetener, if any. Haven’t tried it with agave yet, but regular sugar or honey is too much for it. This one I tend to drink straight. Cannot oversteep much either, not sure if its just me or I’m doing something wrong but its a very finicky tea for me, despite its deliciousness. Either way its chocolatey, minty, and one of my faves.

wyn
78
wyn

so i recently received an email from davids tea reminding me that easter is around the corner and they have some chocolate flavour tea. of them, read my lips is the chocolatiest and other great claims. it smells great, looks great, and tastes good even unsweetened.

Dischord
80

This is an interesting tea for me. I love mint and chocolate together and the black tea puts them together well. The peppercorns add a little bite, which was much appreciated. After my first cup I said “OMG MORE NOW.”

Buuuuttt… it sort of ended there. Every cup I’ve had since has been all right. It’s a tea I crave on occasion, although I’m still debating whether or not it belongs in my permanent collection. Lately when I crave a chocolate black tea, I’ll go towards Stormy Night. Could be the changing of the seasons. Overall, a solid tea and certainly a crowd pleaser.

AmyTran96
68

This tea was a nice starters chocolate tea to me. It wasn’t too sweet nor was it too much on the minty side. The candy lips gave it such a cute touch and the scent filled my room at one point. Though the flavour can taste watered down sometimes, it’s still an amazing tea. I can’t really put my finger on it, but I’m guessing the fact that it’s minty, makes me categorize it into the more wintery kind of teas rather than any other season.

MissSholia
87

Hmmmm, I think this is the first David’s tea I’ve tasted. Good enough to buy every time I’m out of stock and kinda cute with the little red kisses. Oh, and I gave some to my grandmother. She loved it :)

Susamed
25

Thinking I would love this one because it is part of the top three from David’s tea, but this is too many strong flavours for me. I got quickly tired of it. I will try to drink it cold as recommended by the girl at David’s tea as I would need to go through the 100g tint! Also my coworkers hate the smell when I drink it, they literally said it stinks! When I make them smell the tint they can’t believe it is the same tea. That is weird!

Lobie
95

I am not a fan of black teas, and tend to not enjoy most. There are a few exceptions, and this is by far the highest.

If you don’t like black teas, but always want to find one to enjoy I highly recommend this, it’s great tasting, isn’t too strong and has a great flavour of chocolate and mint. Although, I don’t find that this tea does to well with multiple steeps (beyond 2), but is really enjoyable under that. If you add some sugar it can be quite good on the 3rd steep, but I can’t go beyond that.

I would most recommend this tea for after a non-sweet dinner.

LesyaW
67

My first time having a tea with chocolate and candy. Not as “traditionally rich” (I mean, texture rich) as I had anticipated, but the flavor was certainly warm and smooth- the same sort of feeling you get with hot chocolate or a good latte.

LauraTeaLover
80

Chocolatey, pepperminty, candy-eey. I like it. I like it alot. I steeped this one for 5:30 at about 200F. Delicious, light and smooth. This is a nice “fire place tea”. Not overwhelming with flavour or scent just a nice light cool tea.

like if you agree :)

AND follow me, I’m new to this blog thing and would appreciate some cool followers! :D

girljacklemmon
96

Very interesting. A bit minty, a bit peppery, cooling & spicy & sweet all at once. Mint stimulates your brain’s cold receptors, and pepper stimulates your pain receptors (creating an impression of heat), so I find this tea really uniquely refreshing. Reminds me a lot of the mint chocolate Girl Guide cookies that they only sell in the Fall.

librarylyndsey
68

Also from the advent calendar. I feel like I have to try it again because I don’t remember if I liked it a lot. I do know liked it though. Well, that was a helpful note… (saracasm)

TeaLover65
67

This tea smells amazing and I really enjoyed the presentation of it. I did however find it tasted weak, even when David’s made it for me.

Lisa
83

I had a Read My Lips Tea Latte at DAVIDsTEA today. It was delicious. The flavour was a bit weaker than I’d like, so I think I’d steep this longer when making it at home.