Crème de Menthe

Day 3 on my Advent calendar.

Glad i got this i’ve been wanting to try it!

the dry leaves are pretty much what you would expect they smell minty.

steeped i kinda get a gingerbread smell, weird…maybe it’s just me i did build a gingerbread house last night maybe the smell got stuck in my nose..

the liqueur is very dark

time to taste: mmmm this is lovely, mint, cinnamon, and the vanilla there at the end.

now this is a tea that belongs in a christmas calendar! Lovin’ it!

I was really excited about this one: the smell of the loose tea is wonderful, the smell of the steeped tea is wonderful and slightly earthier, it tastes wonderfully creamy and minty and earthy all at once. However. I have tried a few pu-erh teas so far, and thus far thay’ve all been pretty hard on my stomach. I want to like this one, but I just can’t stomach it.

I love all that is mint. Flavored puerh is just wrong, but the other flavors with the creme de menthe base were calling – vanilla, licorice and cinnamon. Yumm!

Certainly no puerh to be found in this cup, as the other flavors overtake the base tea…however, that’s fine by me. It’s nice cup, not a perfect ten but certainly worth trying.

Quite possibly my favourite mint tea AND my favourite pu’ehr, all in one cup! Rich, creamy, full-bodied tea with a sweet minty flavour. I absolutely despise licorice, and can’t detect any licorice in the flavour (yay!). Adding a bit of milk makes it taste like the base of chocolate chip mint ice cream t do what I did and add the liqueur to the tea, it makes it way too strong, almost to the point of being undrinkable. oops!)

When you open the tin of dry tea, a waft of creamy mint overloads your senses – in a good way! It reminds me of those red and white swirl peppermint candies that dominate the holiday season.

Brewed, this tea is dark, earthy and rich in colour. The distinct smell of peppermint swirls about this murky yet intense liquid.

Sipping on this tea, you definitely taste the lush, earthy taste of the cooked pu’reh on your tastebuds, more than any of other flavours. The peppermint hits you like an afterthought in the back of your mouth, softened by the vanilla undertones and making you gently aware of the hollow of your throat, as if it has encompassed it in a soft embrace.

If you are not a fan of peppermint, this tea is not for you. If you don’t enjoy pu’reh, again, not for you.

I added a squirt of agave part way through my large tumbler, to see how the flavours might be enhanced. I found it brought out the delicate creaminess more. This would be a great tea to bake with.

This was good, creamy and minty. I like anything minty so it was good for me. I like that you can resteep this tea multiple times and the taste holds up farely well.

Day #3 of the Advent Calendar is Creme de Menthe Pu-erh tea. This is my first pu-erh, and I’m still trying to decide if I like it or not (never a good sign). It isn’t bitter at all, and the mint is really strong, in fact, it seems to drown everything out. The pu-erh smell is present though, and it is kind of muddy. I took a sip of this and thought, “ah, this is what people mean when they say a tea tastes earthy.” It isn’t bad, that earthy minty combination works well. It leaves a very cool aftertaste from all the mint. I don’t really get the other flavors that people talk about—cinnamon, vanilla, licorice (probably best I don’t get the licorice). This isn’t a bad tea, I don’t think, but it isn’t necessarily one I’d order again. It reminded me of the Read My Lips, which I like better.

Having the teas out of my “24 Days” sampler a bit out of order… Getting ready to settle down and thought a nice tea latte was in order. Out comes this sample as I thought it might make a good latte. The smell of the dry tea was decidedly creme de menthe for me (have a bottle and a bit sitting in my cupboard for my after a cold day’s hike hot chocolate…) The steeped tea also smelt minty, though a bit different from my liqueur. I tried a sip of the tea nude (the tea that is), and could really smell and taste a minty taste. Then I sat down to enjoy the latte, and am very undecided. I get a mint-ish aftertaste to it, mixed in with I think the licorice… The tea/latte isn’t very “creamy” and feels like its lacking something (maybe a shot of real Creme de Menthe?).

Really not sure where I want to rate this tea yet – Maybe when I finish the rest of the sample (with some creme de menthe)

Yeurk, for my taste, this one is nasty… I just tried it for the first time. I so agree with Uniquity, the smell is exactly as she described, a fishy-doggy-muddy kind of smell… the taste is is not as bad, but it’s so weird that I can’t describe it. It certainly tastes nothing like creme de menthe! It’s actually the only tea I’ve ever tasted that I really hate!!
It’s such a disappointment, I ordered it online and the kitsch idea of a «creme de menthe» tea was really appealing to me. The smell in the bag is not bad, but once you steep it, oh boy… I hate wasting, so I have yet to try it cold, maybe that ugly fragrance fades away on ice…will give update on that later :o)

Hmm, so this is my first taste of a pu-erh tea, which means that I don’t have another to compare it to. Regardless, In terms of taste, this tea was not for me. It was very “muddy” tasting for lack of a better word when combined with milk and a little sugar. Perhaps, I’m not as big a fan of mint tea as I had previously thought, but this did not rub me the right way….

This was not what I expected, it fell flat that’s for sure. There was certainly mint in this tea, but that’s all I could taste. I had this hot, and from the store.

this is the first tea from the advent calendar i would actually buy. well, this time of year, anyway. green & fruity might be good for summer. but i digress.

this tea is delicious. it’s my first pu’erh and i will definitely try more.

I definitely catch the licorice and cinnamon in this… which I thought was unusual for a mint tea. But I didn’t get the vanilla much at all.

I’m a huge mint fan. Spearmint, peppermint, wintermint, whatever. I love it. Not so convinced I love this tea. It steeped to a dark color almost like coffee. It smelled almost… heady, but with an after-taste of mint. I can attest that when I first opened the tin, it totally hit me as “smelling like Christmas”. Once brewed, I didn’t mind it, and I finished my mug, but it didn’t leave me with the refreshing sensation of my usual favorite mint teas. And while I typically love cinnamon too, I’m not so sure I like the combination of cinnamon with mint. I can’t say I’ll buy this tea. I have too many other favorite mint teas!

This is my day #3 of the David’s Tea “24 Days of Tea” advent calendar.

The taste and smell of this tea is fairly consistent. I can’t pick up on the vanilla, but I can pick up a bit of cinnamon. Drinking this tea reminds me of eating delicious mint dark chocolate :)

I like the mint, but I don’t care for cinnamon in my tea. It always comes off tasting like Cinnamon Hearts, my most reviled of candies. One sip will be tasty, the next will be too cinnamony.

Mrs Scarry has been getting me to try many teas and I finally found one I like just to have them discontinue it. Ive tried the gambit of flavors from black,white,green,nuts,fruits, etc from this Davids Tea and loved this one the best. If anyone has suggestions of similar style taste,blends to come up with similar taste I would love to know! Thank you. EvS

I actually really love this, especially with a bit of almond milk – i say ‘naturally’ because it took a little getting used to. It’s very creamy-tasting and i LOVE that gentle after-taste, very comforting. Kinda… nutty? I always have a bit of this.

This is a lovely tea served hot. Sometimes I will mix it with a little bit of any chocolate tea and it tastes like an after eight mint. Without chocolate, it tastes just like the filling. Its delicious!

Very nice, just what I was looking for.

I wasn’t sure of buying it because it kinda smells like mouthwash, but I got it anyway because I was curious. The creme de menthe flavour is definitely there, and I think that in order to enjoy the tea you have to really like that flavour. But because it has that huge hit of caffeine and refreshing mint it is a really great morning tea.