Sipdown! (16 | 89)
I really need to get cracking on sipdowns this month! I guess I’m still at more than one per day, but I’d like to be at two per day, if I’m honest.
This is one of those ones from Harney where I feel like I’m missing something… A lot of other people seem to really love it, but for me it’s sort of just meh.
It’s supposed to be cranberry almond I think? There’s a tiny hint of cranberry tartness here, though I would like a lot more. Perhaps a bit of marzipan at the end of the sip? Mostly it tastes like a very musty and earthy base tea to me…
Oh well, I’m glad to not love them all, hah! And yet I always feel compelled to order another sample and give it another try… (shrugs)
Flavors: Cranberry, Earth, Marzipan, Musty, Sweet, Tart, Wood
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I used to adore this one and then my husband said that Harney’s chocolate teas smell like mildew to him. And I can see it. But now I find that aroma in White Christmas and Boston, too, so I am wondering if they have changed to an artificial vanilla that is in all of these blends and that is the smell we don’t like. I gave away the last tin of Boston that I bought.
Awww that’s a shame. But now that you mention it, this does sort of remind me of artificial chocolate flavoring…
Boston sounds nice to me but I have never tried it. How do you like their Chocolate Mint?
I haven’t tried that one. I tend to sort of avoid chocolate-flavored teas now as I never seem to like them… Didn’t stop me from getting a sample of Florence in my last order though, lol!
The mint is definitely stronger than the chocolate, and the mint leaves kind of overpowers the black tea so it tastes more like a peppermint herbal tea with chocolate rather than a black tea with mint and chocolate. There is still some black tea flavor, though. But if you don’t like chocolate in teas, it’s probably not a tea for you.
I really want to try Florence but you can’t get it in Europe. Too bad.
I think I would love that tea.
I used to adore this one and then my husband said that Harney’s chocolate teas smell like mildew to him. And I can see it. But now I find that aroma in White Christmas and Boston, too, so I am wondering if they have changed to an artificial vanilla that is in all of these blends and that is the smell we don’t like. I gave away the last tin of Boston that I bought.
Awww that’s a shame. But now that you mention it, this does sort of remind me of artificial chocolate flavoring…
Boston sounds nice to me but I have never tried it. How do you like their Chocolate Mint?
I haven’t tried that one. I tend to sort of avoid chocolate-flavored teas now as I never seem to like them… Didn’t stop me from getting a sample of Florence in my last order though, lol!
The mint is definitely stronger than the chocolate, and the mint leaves kind of overpowers the black tea so it tastes more like a peppermint herbal tea with chocolate rather than a black tea with mint and chocolate. There is still some black tea flavor, though. But if you don’t like chocolate in teas, it’s probably not a tea for you.
I really want to try Florence but you can’t get it in Europe. Too bad.
I think I would love that tea.