1500 Tasting Notes
Hm. This is creamier than Pumpkin Cheesecake, and it’s… thickness?… lingers in my mouth. I don’t like it as much, it’s a bit cloying for me, without nearly enough spice to help me get through. I do love the garam masala addition – what a great idea! – I just wish it was more prominent in this cup. It is very, very creamy though. Shockingly so. I think a short steep and lower temperature is the best way to get a great cup from this, with some sweetener (6 drops of stevia, in my case).
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I truly love this tea, and it’s surprised me. Out of the handful of new DAVIDs Teas that I’ve tried today, this is by far my favorite. I want to say it tastes like a pumpkin pie baked over an open flame, like a campfire, but not in a traditionally tea-smoky way. It’s the nutmeg, I’m sure…. plus I had it with a healthy dollop of cream (as the staffer suggested) and now it’s just plain decadent.
Flavors: Cream, Nutmeg, Pumpkin, Smoke
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hmm. I wish I had gotten this instead of the pumpkin patch now!
I passed on this one too, and got Pumpkin Patch, but maybe I need to go back and get it.
Huh. I should check this one out!
Definitely check it out. The longer steep really seemed to help, and it needs some sort of sweetener to make it pop. I just can’t brew the black version long enough to make it palatable.
Longer steep! I must try this! (and I already thought it was great at just 5 minutes…). I completely agree with you about it needed some sort of sweetner (that makes it SOO good…), and the cream! I wasn’t too big on it until I added milk (I think I’ll do cream next time…).
Don’t go past go, or collect $200. Just don’t fucking do it.
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Sorry it’s a bad tea, but your review of it made me laugh. :)
If you like dragon fruit, Teavana and Cornelia Bean have ones that are much, much better.
I agree with Veronica. I laughed.
I don’t remember ever having dragon fruit, although it’s in plentiful supply here in Vancouver (in season). I’ll definitely try out other options.. although I’ve been ignoring Teavana now for a while.
Also, glad y’all laughed! Always worried when I swear on here.
Staff at DAVIDs convinced me to come home with some of this. Sadly, to her a “sample” size was closer to 50g than 25g.. I don’t get it. ANYWAY.
Severely oversteeped (by an hour!) left this tart, sweet, and kinda prickly/burning – there must be strawberry flavoring in here, as I suspected when I smelled it. I get why the staffer called it “very much like honeydew”, if I’d steeped it probably, it probably would.
Flavors: Hibiscus, Honeydew, Tart
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o_O 50g is not a sample. Particularly when DAVIDs can do as little as 10g, which is the quantity I now get for anything new, because too much tea.
I actually told her outright – smallest amount possible. I had to get her to put tea back a few times. Just not cool.
Yum! Used three tsp (as per what OMGsrsly wrote right on the sample bag – thank you!) and it was delicious. I got less fluffy orange and more smoked orange though. No, wait. Sage orange. Yes, that’s definitely it. I’d order more of this were I to grab a bunch of things from Cornelia. Must admit I have a soft spot for them.. my first ever Tea & Coffee exchange on RedditGifts gave me a huge Cornelia Bean package of a variety of teas. Gosh, four, five years ago now? Someday, I’ll visit in person. Someday soon.
Flavors: Orange, Sage, Smoke
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I love this tea. I love it so much that when I was in San Francisco a while back, I made a special trip to Lupicia. I bought 100g, and it wasn’t nearly enough. Been consistently drinking this since jump62359 graciously sent over my first samples (yes, plural, cuz she rocks) and it’s just as good – although it’s not as good when steeped too long, gets a bit woodsy. Excellent iced!
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Smells delicious, sounds even better, but it’s mostly woodsy rooibos with hints of lime. Not getting any sage, even after a ten minute steep.
OMGseriously you rock, as per usual, for sending this along.
Flavors: Lime, Wood
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Finding this tea strangely… not as satisfying as I’d hoped, considering the cost, how much trouble I had getting it back to my place in Canada (from San Francisco’s Chinatown), and then how much the staffer raved about it.
It’s a standard puer, with a bit of a sweet, almost bitterly so aftertaste. It’s smooth and medium-bodied, with that je-ne-sais-quoi that makes it a puer… that earthiness, without being really smack-in-your-face about it.
Do I love it? Nope. Will I reach for it? Maybe. I doubt it. This was REALLY expensive tea, too, so… yeah. Going to try re-steeping it at least a few times to see if I enjoy it more.
Flavors: Earth, Sugarcane
It’s better as a latte, but you’re right, it’s not the best.
LOL, “Cardboard” is the first flavor listed on the page for this tea now!
Blech, duly noted.