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Bird & Blend Matcha Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 6

Really enjoying this one as a morning latte! It’s a bit like having a blueberry muffin. :D

Nice sweet blueberry flavor that tastes like the little dried blueberries in Blueberry Morning cereal (lol that was very specific, wasn’t it?). Perfect amount of flavoring – I can taste the blueberry clearly but can also still taste a lot of the earthy matcha.

Really liked it! I would consider getting some, but I also enjoy 3 Leaf’s blueberry matcha and it’s much more affordable and accessible to me. :P

Tea at the White House Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 5

Gotta say, wasn’t thrilled to see two rum-flavored teas today. Not the biggest fan of alcohol-flavored things in general.

Luckily, this is much better than the Sipology offering. It tastes like a creamy milk chocolate bonbon with rum cream filling. The chocolate is slightly artificial, but the creaminess helps smooth it out. Plus, it’s actually a booze-flavored tea so the booziness of the chocolate flavoring actually makes sense ha ha.

Enjoyed my small cup quite a bit! It’s not something I would reach for, but pleasantly surprised by how nice it is. :)

Beach House Teas 12 Teas of Christmas 2023 – Day 5

A black tea with cranberries, apples, and ginger sounds so nice!

It’s too bad that I don’t taste any of the fruit – this is mostly just a ginger black tea with a bit of licorice root. I do like ginger, so I’m still enjoying it, I was just really looking forward to the cranberry and apple. It’s very smooth and the ginger is present but not overwhelming. Earthy and comforting. I could do without the licorice, but luckily it’s very restrained and only gives a hint of sweetness.

Compagnie & Co Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 5

Let’s be honest, I’m never very excited when I see rooibos. It’s just not one of my favorite tea bases, I prefer honeybush or even herbal blends.

But this is actually really nice! Such an interesting combination of sweet strawberries & cream with a swirl of bright grapefruit. The strawberry and cream flavors give such a nice dreamy sweetness, and remind me of those Creme Savers candies that I used to love when I was younger. And then the grapefruit comes in and just freshens the whole thing up a bit.. Often red fruit or berry rooibos blends can taste quite medicinal to me, but I feel like here the grapefruit really helps keep that at bay.

Quite a lovely sweet and fruity rooibos. I would consider ordering some of this if there end up being other Compagnie & Co teas that I want to purchase.

Thésaurus Tea Fandom Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 5

Ha ha, such a cute name. Sailor Moon immediately comes to mind, but of course there are many more fandoms with transformation sequences.

Unfortunately, I’m not loving it. It smelled super rosy in the bag, and luckily the rose isn’t quite so strong when it’s steeped up, but it’s still at the forefront. I taste a little bit of the berry as well, but I wish there was more of it. Honestly it’s somewhat bland overall? Mostly it’s some hay notes from the white base, and then the dusty rose notes. And some mustiness, probably from the butterfly pea flower.

I wish it was a bit more magical! :P

Sipology Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 5

Ooh I love maple and I love butter rum and butterscotch things… And it’s a rolled oxidized oolong!

Sadly, all I can really taste is the rum. It smells quite weird in way that I’m having difficulty describing… I definitely smell the rum flavor, but it’s almost kind of weirdly earthy and a bit savory? Taste-wise though, it’s a bit bland IMO. I just get rum and a bit of a vague sweetness, nothing that reminds me of butterscotch or specifically maple. Oh, and there’s clove as well.

Oh well. So far it doesn’t seem like Sipology and I are a good fit. :P

Bird & Blend Matcha Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 5

This one is just not my favorite. I’ve had it several times over the years, and still I just find the flavoring to be a bit much. Not only is it quite strong, but it’s also very buttery, and the whole thing is just over the top to me. Plus there’s also cocoa powder mixed in, which diminishes the matcha flavor even more in comparison to the caramel.

Still enjoyed my iced latte, just not as much as the other flavors. :)

DIY Kyoto Obubu Advent Calendar – Day 4

The first of many sencha!

This one is almost a bancha, but it still retains that concentrated vegetal punch. It’s paired with soft hay and dry grass, with an undertone of creamy kabocha. Very autumnal flavors, with a touch of nuttiness as well.

Love it. A relaxing tea for the evening, without too much intensity. :)

Tea at the White House Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 4

It is what it says – a simple, pepperminty candy cane black tea. No cream or vanilla (sadly), just refreshing mint on a smooth, somewhat earthy black base.

It’s not wow-ing me or anything, but always nice to have a festive cuppa, especially when it has cute little candy cane sprinkles! I still haven’t found a candy cane tea that I’ve really loved, but I do adore B&B’s Peppermint Cream, which is sort of in that same vein. :)

Sipology Advent Calendar 2023 – Day 4

And again with the cinnamon! Pralines don’t even have cinnamon normally, do they?!

This one just has way too much flavoring in general – it’s very over-flavored. And mostly it’s cinnamon, which doesn’t even make sense given the name. I do taste something resembling pecan, but there’s not even much of creamy note really. It’s more like candied pecan? There’s also a weird fruity acidity from the quince pieces, which doesn’t fit at all with the other flavors.

Weird tea, and just so much flavoring.

ETA – It occurs to me that Sipology is a Canadian company, and maybe praline means something else there. But I still don’t like it! XP