Tiramisu Treviso

Thanks to TheDJBooth for giving me some of this in a recent swap.

hmm, I agree with the other reviewers here, this doesn’t taste much like tiramisu. I got an almond aroma in the bag and my tea tastes a bit like a rooibos mocha almond drink. I’m picking up on coffee, weird. The flavor was helped along with the addition of some soymilk which made it more dessert like for yours truly.

This wasn’t bad but I’m not too surprised it was discontinued… I was glad I got to try it though!

Another one that I purchased in my latest order from Christmas. Tiramisu happens to be one of my favorite deserts. One of those that I just can’t seem to resist if offered to me. So I was hoping this would remind me of one of my favorite deserts. The dry leaf smell is a little overwhelming kinda in that fake Amaretto type of almond/cherry like sweetness. Not to mention the orange…since when does Tiramisu have orange in it??? Ok here goes nothing. I would agree with previous posts that it’s coffee like in the aroma. I think I used a little bit too much leaf because the flavor is a little too sweet…or orange zesty. As it is cooling down I’m starting to enjoy it a lot more. Some of the chocolate is starting to come out it’s tasting more like one of those chocolate oranges, and a little bit more coffee like. Tiramisu though? Not so much. The flavor profile also becomes familiar to me. Where have I tasted this before. Sip. Wait for it. Sip. Wait for it….Holy crap it’s My Morning Mate. Minus the mate and black tea. No wonder I’m starting to like it. On the other hand though I’m starting to wonder how many teas does Teavana do this with. I like it and I’m glad that when I run out this discontinued number not to worry. I’ll just pick up the full caf version. It is something to put in the pipe to smoke and ponder a bit. How many of their teas have the same flavor profile…just sayin’

I got this unexpected bonus pouch of tea in my swap with DJBooth! Thanks!

I had a Tiramisu rooibos from California Tea House once and wasn’t too impressed by it. I didn’t expect to be impressed by this one either. The first thing I notice is this roasty coffee-ish taste. Then a strong woody rooibos. Then the oddly fruity amaretto and a hint of cocoa. Hmm… Someone needs to tell Teavana that a large part of tiramisu’s deliciousness is in the creamy marscapone. This tea needs to be creamy! Maybe a hint of vanilla could simulate creaminess here. Perhaps a pinch of vanilla honeybush. Too bad I’m long out of that particular tea. :(

Good evening cup. I think the husband might find this enjoyable as a latte.

Back when I used to be able to tolerate caffeine, I used to like coffee (I never got into decaf, dunno why). I never liked the bitterness of coffee, though, just its flavour, so I’d always add a ton of sugar to make it palatable (I can just feel the coffee purists cringing). What I especially loved doing was going to the supermarket and buying these tiny sampler packets of flavoured coffee, much as I now love buying sampler packs of tea. One of my favourite flavoured coffees used to be amaretto coffee. Today, I have found this same coffee in caffeine-free, tea form.

Wait, what? Yep, that’s what I said. If I hadn’t opened the packet and steeped the tea myself, if I’d only inhaled the fragrance and tasted the brew, I would’ve sworn that I was drinking the same amaretto coffee I used to love so much. This rooibos blend smells and tastes exactly like it, and it’s lovely.

This blend should just be called Amaretto Coffea (see what I did there?). It has a bunch of other ingredients that I’m sure somehow work together to give the tea a more full-bodied flavour, but I couldn’t tell you whether it’d make any difference at all if they were absent. It tastes nothing whatsoever like tiramisu, but if you like the idea of amaretto coffee, you’ll nevertheless enjoy this blend.

I’m glad to try this, but this is not tiramisu, Teavana. Flavors that would make tiramisu: coffee, chocolate, rum or Marsala wine, and a tangy sort of cream flavor. Almond, macadamia, and orange? What. I mean, I guess the almond sort of invokes amaretto, and I’ve made a version of tiramisu with amaretto, but orange I do not get.

Smells to me like cinnamon coffee. Tastes interesting, it might be tiramisu if it wasn’t for that orange zest. It just doesn’t fit. It is really sweet though, I don’t even understand how.

It’s good, but it’s not really tiramisu. But really I have any better idea of a name. It’s an interesting flavor profile but…totally understandable why it’s discontinued: I’ve only smelled a brewed cup of My Morning Mate but I can tell this was just like a version of it with rooibos. TheDJBooth is on to something there, and I also must thank him for sending me some of this to try!

The aroma of the unsteeped leaves is very orange. There is a hint of chocolate along with the nut blend (macadamia and almond fragrances), but it is the citrus note that leaves the lasting fragrance.

The aroma is the same for the brewed tea. I tried this hot with no sugar or milk first. It was good, but perhaps a little too overpowering with the citrus. Adding sugar to the hot brew allows for the chocolate and nut undertones to shine through. This makes it taste a little like coffee, but it is not well blended and the flavors come in waves. Finally, adding milk (and sugar) to the hot brew makes for a well blended coffee flavored tea with all components working synergistically. This was pleasant because tiramisu should taste like coffee.

Overall decent, but you would have to like tiramisu in order for it to be really worth it to try.

Yummy! This is another great alternative for a dessert tea for nite-time as it is decaf. W/sugar and milk, this tastes as close to chocolate (or at least like melted ice cream) as I have had in a tea… Not sure how they do it but Teavana has created another winner!!!

I’m starting to think that maybe tiramisu teas and I will never fit. I adore the real thing, but so far the teas I’ve had have been misses. This tea was somewhat uneventful. I didn’t taste anything I could put my finger on. It was more of, “there’s sweetness there, a little bitterness here”. It was a decent cup as I drank 3/4 of it, but I suppose nothing jumped out at me and made this one truly tiramisu in a cup. I’m very glad that I was able to sip this one, though! It had been one of my top Teavana teas to try! Thank you Brandy for this sample.

This tastes a lot like coffee. (I think that Teavana tries to blend tea to taste like coffee to convert people.) The first time a tried it, I hated it. This time, I made sure the water was boiling and gave it a long time to infuse. That made it taste more like coffee. I added creamer since I like that in my coffee. I kind of like it this way. Maybe it will be a good sub for coffee.

Really liked this one. It’s pretty complex and nice, not really sweet but still a dessert-y tea. Very good to find a dessert tea that’s not covered in fruit! I blended the last of this with my Simple is Beautiful Mt. Kilimanjaro Blue (a blueberry rooibos with yogurt bits) since I didn’t have quite enough for a full cup.

I’m not sure if I’m going to buy this one again mostly because I’d like to move away from Teavana and get sample teas from other company, rather than having to buy a minimum of 2 ounces. But this one is almost worth going back for, and the fact that it’s such a complex blend means I may return anyways.

Mmmmm, coffee. Yummy. The orange, the almond, the cocoa nibs, its like decaf heaven in a cup. I haven’t really had much coffee since I recently started drinking boat-loads of tea, so this was a nice throwback to something else I enjoy. The smell is very gently coffee-like, more like a whiff than a full on olfactory assault. The taste is less coffee-like, and more almond, I think. My lack of a palate is starting to show. And annoy me! Maybe one day it will show up and I’ll experience the “waves of flavor” and be able to identify things the way other very clever note-writers do.

Tried this tonight and I liked it. The smell was heavenly and chocolate. How can I go wrong here? I’m not a fan of rooibos, but this is a good dessert type tea. All the flavor, no calories.
I do think I needed to add a bit more leaf, because it was weak IMO. Maybe I did not brew it long enough…who knows for sure. But I did like it and I will be trying the rest of my sample tomorrow making a few adjustments along the way.

Another sample courtesy of Doulton! I just can’t resist trying all my new teas at least once before moving on to the old favorites. Well, this tea is interesting in a good way. If I didn’t know better I would think I was drinking tiramisu flavored coffee. It is very creamy and really tastes just like the name promises. I really like this the more I drink it although it is playing tricks with my mind. I swear this is coffee and not tea.

As a side note, the minty type smell I was getting from the gingerbread rooibos has been identified as the rooibos. All my other rooibos blends have the same type of smell, not quite mint, but I don’t know what else to label it as.

at first i thought it was too strong and overwhelming. But i blended it with some black tea (english breakfast. mixing meals!) and it came out great! i used 1:1

Still don’t care for Teavana’s tea selections or ideas, but this tea is great. (And now they’re discontinuing it.)

A full-flavored tea (unless you don’t add enough tea per oz of water or if you don’t steep for long enough at proper temp).

I found the flavor, when hot, to be a bright combination of orange (like orange liquor), almonds (like almond extract or almond liquor) and a bit of cocoa. As it cooled, it tasted something more akin to actual Tiramisu (and therefore coffee). Definitely a dessert experience—especially with a bit of sugar or milk. I can’t help but think that a bit of vanilla and less orange would have pushed it further into the Tiramisu flavor realm. I haven’t had a lot of orange flavored Tiramisu, but perhaps they’re going for a bit of the bitters one might experience with espresso. Yummy as a treat, but not one that I’d want to drink daily.

I had really high hopes for this tea and was a tiny bit disappointed. It seemed a little too fruity tasting, but not from the orange. It was almost like an overabundance of almond extract (which tastes more like cherry than almond to me). There was a lot of nutty flavor and a fair amount of caramel/burnt sugar flavor. I think I am getting a little bit too much of the red pepper flavor as well. Overall it’s a decent tea, but almost seems to have too much going on. The flavors definitely come in waves. I’ve had better tiramisu teas, so I probably won’t buy this again. Prepared with almond milk and stevia.

The first few cups were pleasant but underwhelming. Tonight I tried hotter water and adding half a tsp more tea ad a touch of sugar. It definitely made a difference. I bought this to drink at night, looking for a dessert tea that won’t keep me up and will help curb my ice cream cravings. Prepared like this, I’d say this will do the trick.

There are a lot of good flavors going on. Definitely chocolate, subtle taste of almonds, and a buttery rum quality. Not quite tiramisu but it does fit the bill as a satisfying dessert tea.

Nothing like tiramisu.

I don’t love this tea and I don’t hate it. Personally, I enjoy strong teas and I especially love rooibos blends. I’ve been trying to find a chocolate tea lately so I thought I’d try this. Oddly, I didn’t taste any chocolate at all. If you’ve had the packaged alcoholic drink called ‘RedRum’, then you know what the beginning note of this tea is. It’s kind of off putting, really. I won’t buy again but I’ll finish what I’ve got.