Day 23 of the DavidsTea herbal advent calendar. This smells amazing. Sweet creamy caramel with a nice baked note. Unfortunately, that doesn’t quite translate into the flavor. The caramel is here, and it’s great. I think it’s the same as in the salted caramel oolong, which I really enjoy. But there’s also a strong apple flavor, and a sweetener I can’t quite place but don’t like – stevia maybe? Yup, just looked at the ingredients and the first ingredient is apple and there is indeed stevia in this. Doesn’t seem to have the same caramel bits/flavoring as the salted caramel oolong though, I must have just read that into it because the flavors are so similar. And nothing remotely cookie-like or giving me a baked vibe. I’m glad I got to try this but don’t feel any need to drink more of it.
Apparently I had one sachet of this 5 years ago and all I got from it flavor-wise was berry and stevia, leading me to give it a 45 rating. I don’t know if the formulation changed or my palate did (or both). Bumping up a few points because of the nice caramel flavor.
