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Sipdown. The creamy vanilla flavoured faded a bit with age but it’s still quite tasty especially if you add some milk to it. I like how the bergamot is nice and subtle as some earl greys tend to overdo it and the tea ends up being quite bitter.

I love the scent of this tea – it’s like a cross between rose petals and raspberry candies. The sample is showing its age so the flavour is a bit dull but I can still clearly taste the sweet rose flavour. It’s good taken either plain or with milk.

I’ve found that most Nepalese teas are reminiscent of Darjeelings but this is much more like an Assam. It has that characteristic malty robustness, though it doesn’t have the bitterness that some strong Assams carry as I can enjoy this tea perfectly fine without adding milk to soften it. As other people have noted, there definitely a molasses undertone to it that’s quite enjoyable. DT found a good one.

Sipdown. Not a bad tea all in all and I liked the keemun base in this one. I’d love to see LiberTeas have a crack at recreating this one or maybe Apple Pie A La Mode.

I’m not sure why ‘pear’ is anywhere in the title as the most dominant flavour is blatantly lemongrass. There’s maybe a bit of fruity sweetness as the tea cools but it’s pretty minor compared to the lemongrass. I don’t actually mind the flavour of lemongrass, but I was hoping for a little bit more from this tea.

I got this more for the name than anything else, as I have quite a few citrus teas kicking around in my cupboard in various incarnations. Army of Darkness was a classic movie from my childhood so there might be a teensy bit of nostalgia involved. ;)

The combination of citrus flavours is interesting and they mix quite well with the robust, slightly cocoa-y flavoured black tea base. The interesting part is that it’s not just an amorphous citrus flavour, I can distinctly taste orange, grapefruit, mandarin, etc. in each sip. Still it seems to me that something called "Boomstick’ should have a bit more fire to it.

I didn’t really care for this tea hot, but then who likes warm root beer? *bleurgh * Served cold and sweetened with agave nectar is a different story. The flavour is pretty close to actual root beer, though I notice a slight herbal undertone from the sarsaparilla root. The smooth vanilla flavours fill in the ‘float’ part of the tea nicely and it makes for a nice refreshing drink.

Well it may not be my tea of choice for regular drinking but it feels so nice on my raw throat.

Chocolate and pu-erh are two ingredients that were just made to go together. I can’t really review this properly yet because whatever bug I’ve got has my taste buds out of wack. But suffice to say even with my throat feeling like it’s been sandpapered the blend still tasted so good.

This one came out of my Davids Tea advent calendar (this is the first year I actually managed to get one before they all sold out). I was forewarned and steeped it in a disposable sachet rather than my usual tea strainer to avoid having to clean out a mess. Despite that I really enjoy this tea as my bedtime cuppa. It really does taste like banana bread in tea form with just the right balance of banana, nuts and cake flavours. It makes for a very warm, soothing sort of drink for me. I would certainly consider buying more of this blend.