144 Tasting Notes
2nd note! Lots of creamy earl greys have strong notes of vanilla, but this one doesn’t have that at all. The creaminess comes out almost entirely in the finish. It smells soooo nice but tastes a lot different. Not that it’s bad, but I find it very astringent/mouth-drying. Still an enjoyable earl grey though.
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This is the first Davids Tea of the Month of 2012 that I really like! The dry leaves smell sweet and cake-y and it kind of makes me think of a cross between Mulberry Magic and Checkmate. Most of the bulk of the tea is taken up by the giant mulberries and I had to reach way to the bottom of the bag to get a decent amount of white tea in there. But it tastes creamy and bourbon-y and it’s nice and full-bodied. I’ll probably be buying some more before it disappears.
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I was wondeering if they remixed those other tea’s…a tease of sorts…pun…and I’m glad you gave a review. I was toying with getting this or not. Like the thought of a bourbon-y tea. Imagine a dessert of baked apples or apple pie (I make a french apple pie and a pie with chedder cheese melted under the top crust..won a prize with both) and then sipping a boubon tea…nice mental picture. Ok want this tea too. Thanks for the good review!
Aw man, that mental picture is such a tease Bonnie!
But yes, every time someone drinks this tea I get more and more jealous :D Must. Try!
I’ve been gone for quite awhile… but I’m back now! Woooo!
It’s weird that this is my third note on this tea, but there are many others that I drink far more often that have only 1 or 0 notes. Anyway this is still a great tea, with a SHORT STEEP. That is the key for this tea! Then you get perfectly strawberry/white tea, both very pronounced and at the same time seamlessly blended together.
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Okay so I was totally gonna make an order from Octavia (I got these as a gift so have never ordered from them before) but their Canadian shipping was $25.75. Noooooooo! I would get it shipped to my parents in the states for around $3, but they’re gonna be gone til May. So I will just have to wait.
I finished my sample of this today. With a 2-minute steep I actually did get the caramel coming through a little. I still like this and I LOVE the smell of it but there’s that bitterness there that I can’t seem to shake. Not sure if it’s worth it to get a whole tin! I wish Octavia offered a size in between sample and tin. :/
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The first time I tried this (months ago) I steeped it for way too long and hated it. A 45 second steep is perfect for this one though, and seems to take away a lot of the chamomile. I really don’t like chamomile in most things so this is a plus. Now it tastes the way I imagined it would… if only it was still at Davids. I hope they bring it back for something. I’ll be sad when it’s gone from my cupboard. D:
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I bought this at the end of January out of pure morbid curiosity. Each time I smell the dry leaves I hate it more, it even made me retch! So I was very scared to try this one. But I had heard that it tastes better than it smells.
And…. it does taste better than it smells! Once it’s brewed it actually smells very familiar. I don’t know, it smells like some kind of gingery herbal tea. The taste is not bad. Lots of ginger and the ocean taste is there in a small nice way. But there is a weird aftertaste that makes me think of the dry leaves. Bleh! Overall though I’d say I’m glad I took a chance with this. It’s interesting and actually pretty good. But I’m not sad to see this one go… I’ll be finishing my 25g and not looking back!
I don’t understand all the hate for this tea! This was tea of the month when I first discovered David’s, and it makes me wish it was fall again. I loooooove it. I can’t even describe how it tastes, it just tastes like amazing carrot cake and cream cheese icing.
This had the aftertaste of paint to me…oh well…wish you were close by so I could hand you mine. I probably will find a someone in my family to pawn this off on. Goes to show that we all have different taste. AND that difference is not wrong…Having worked in a winery you soon learn that! Nothing worse than a wine snob or a tea snob!!! I’m GLAD you like this!!! Sincerely!!!!! Poop on me and all of us who gave icky reviews!
I totally agree, there are teas out there that everyone else seems to love but I just can’t stand. It makes it easy to find someone to give them away to though!
This smells like cookies and tastes like cookies. The cranberry is the main event, it took me a few minutes to notice the pear. But there’s something very cookie-like about it. I really like this tea. It didn’t stand up to a second steep, it got weird and weak but I was expecting that from all the fruit pieces. I had been meaning to try this for a while so I’m glad I finally picked some up!
