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I had mentioned I wanted to try this and Derk kindly offered to send me the rest of a tin to try! Thanks so much, Derk!

This has the strangest steeping directions I’ve seen yet. 80C for 10-11 minutes! It’s very lightly flavored. The scent is a wisp of my spice cabinet, a faint mixture of many herbs (must be the dried basil in the mix). I think the strongest bit that I’m getting is the blackberry leaf sweetness, but it’s not over powering. It almost has a minty coolness. Hard to pick out anything in the sip aside from the light mix of herbs I mentioned smelling, but the finish has a faint perfume to it. I can’t say I can taste the sandalwood, which is what caught my interest in this blend in the first place. I’m not taken by this tea and I really appreciate the chance to try it without having to commit to a 125g purchase. That would have been a disappointment especially after liking two other Laponics that Theodor has.

Sipped this tea down today! I probably overleafed it a bit, but it was a nice cup. I’m kind of surprised it didn’t have custard in the name because custard flavors were the first thing I noticed. The coconut was more subtle and the lemon part just melted into the custard flavors and didn’t stand out on it’s own for me. I was also wolfing down a bowl of ramen at the same time as drinking this cup, caught off guard my my hunger, so I didn’t get to focus on my tea as much as I often do. I might give a second steeping a go later this evening.

How did I miss that hibiscus is in the top three ingredients when ordering this?! I’m certainly not missing it in the cup. It is very cherry like, but then the tart hib kicks in and then a very strong alkaline flavor that I see someone else described as dust, which also fits. This is going right into the get rid of bin and dumping the cup.

Uuuuuggggghhhhhhh! Damnit! I ordered this tea based off the name and the graphics on the box. It says passion and on the back has a tea pot covered in leafy vines, like passion plants. I thought it was a passion fruit EG. It is not. I drank the whole cup, but I wasn’t happy about it. No fault of the tea’s, it was my misinterpretation of what I was getting. I’ll have to give it some time and revisit this tea with adjusted expectations.

This smells very coconut/chocolatey. I just finished pancakes with maple syrup, so I’m having to let my tastebuds readjust. The sip is smooth with a slight tang, but doesn’t have much going on. The finish is where the chocolate coconut flavors come out. I’m having a hard time getting the salt part, but I imagine salt is hard to distribute easily throughout a blend and has a tendency to sink to the bottom making for a salty last cup. My mouth is left with a dry feeling after each sip. This is a nice cup, but so far not something I’d rebuy.

Hubby loves a good gen… or pretty much any gen as far as I can tell. We had been out of it for a while so I picked up a bag of this at the Korean market yesterday. This has such a nice umami undertone to it! It’s like miso without the saltiness. There is the tasty roastiness of the rice and an almost sweet sensation. It’s really nice and at $5 for 5oz it’s a pretty good deal too!

Cold steeped this overnight and added some bubbles to it with the soda stream machine! I can smell the strawberry and mint. It’s minty and fruity when sipping on it too. The carbonation adds a fun lightness to it that really works with this tea. Tea soda!

I had this two days ago, so it was at the forefront of my mind and cupboard prompting me to drink it again today. It did not disappoint. I feel like I noticed some deep mellow dark cherry notes in there this time. Looking at my tin of this, it’s one of the Theodor teas I’m starting to get lower on. I’m still far from a sipdown, but if this becomes a favorite I might need to keep it in stock and add it to my permanent collection.

Sipping this down from last year’s advent. It is also called Sahne (cream in German from what translation apps are telling me). I love big healthy servings of tea in my advents, but I also don’t like them because I’m left with a ton of samples to go through if I didn’t like the tea. I suppose I could compost them, but that would be sacrilegious! LOL! I could put them in my get rid of pile and maybe send them off to someone else to try in a TTB or something. With this I opted to dump both remaining servings worth in my steeping basket despite that method going wrong for me the other day with another tea. I never learn.

This tea is a little bland, which is probably why I didn’t bother making an entry for it in the Steepster database when I first tried it. I taste the cream they are going for, more of a vanilla on a malty base. Then I get some carrots in there because damn my snacking 10 minutes ago and then I almost get a mint in the finish. It falls into my “nice enough of a tea, but not very exciting” category. Sorry, Sahne or Cream or whatever your name is.

Sipdown.
I’m finally letting myself drink the last of this tea from the three tea bags I got out of the advent a year ago. I didn’t want to say goodbye. I am really taken by the flavors and want to get more next time I place an order, whenever that will be. It’s light, but very flavorful. A citrus mix, minus the citric acid bite. Defanged citrus? It’s well balanced and I bet it would taste good with cream or iced. It’s SO lovely! I’m going to steep all I can out of this last bag!