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I’m disappointed that I waited so long to try this tea. It’s been discontinued and I’ve really grown quite fond of it. The black tea base is quite light, maybe a bit too light. The cranberry and pear flavors are both present and nicely balanced. I love the bit of vanilla in this blend as well. It adds a nice dessert element to the tea. I don’t find the tea to be overwhelmingly tart, despite the number of cranberries in the blend. I added a touch of stevia to my cuppa this morning and I’m really enjoying it.

This is another tea from a recent 52Teas haul. The banana flavor overwhelms the peach in my first cup, but the banana pieces are much bigger than the pieces of peach (at least in my small sample bag). The banana smells and tastes like banana runts, and I don’t really mind that. I do wish there was more peach flavor. I get it at the very end of each sip and it reminds me of a juicy, ripe (but not overly so) peach. It’s quite tasty. I’ll just have to shake up the contents of the bag better before my next cuppa to see if I can find a better distribution of fruit pieces. All in all, another pleasant surprise from 52Teas. Very enjoyable, especially for a flavored green tea. I had it hot, but I imagine it’d be lovely chilled or iced. I’ll have to add a larger bag to my next order.

It’s so sticky and humid outside, and it’s been a really hectic morning at work. I’m happy to have a tall, icy glass of this tea to sip while I wind down this afternoon. I’m not even a huge fan of fruit punch but I could drink this every day. It’s fruit punch but better. I think this will be my go-to iced tea this spring and summer, much like Mango Fruit Punch last summer.

Good. So good.

I was lucky enough to score a 4-ounce bag in a Facebook group. It’d been mentioned by someone in the group before and sounded so intriguing that I had to try to track it down. Flavored black teas are my jam and I love marshmallows so I knew that this would almost certainly be a hit. It is. I’m sitting a cuppa this morning.

The marshmallow flavor is lovely and only improves as the tea cools. I added a drop of stevia because I didn’t find that it was as sweet as I was expecting given all the add-ins (gold sugar pearls, sprinkles, mini marshmallows). The caramel flavor is faint but adds a bit of depth to a tea that would otherwise be straight marshmallow (not that I would’ve minded that in the slightest!). The tea did have a bit of an oil slick on top but I used a filter, as suggested by other folks on Steepster, so it wasn’t too bad.

The only negative thing I’d say is that I wish the black tea base was a bit stronger.

This is another new-to-me tea that I’ve tried in the past few weeks that I’ll now have to ration. I haven’t tried many marshmallow teas, but this is, without a doubt, the best I’ve tried thus far. If anyone has suggestions on other, more readily available, marshmallow teas, please let me know.

I wanted to love this. I love coconut. I love dessert teas. I’m beginning to love flavored oolong blends. It definitely tastes like coconut, but that’s all I taste really. I don’t get much chocolate flavor; I just get the oiliness of the white chocolate. I don’t get any flavoring that would resemble pie crust either. It’s too similar to, and not as good as, Chocolate Macaroon for me to keep the rest of my 50g bag.

I’m not a huge fan of this because the cinnamon is a bit too strong for me. It’s a shame because the pear flavor is really quite lovely. I’m not a fan of most red rooibos blends, so I’m very happy the base of this tea is a green rooibos. I imagine it’d be quite nice as a latte. I don’t find that it’s all that sweet, at least not to the extent that I’d consider it a dessert tea.

I only bought a 50g bag and that’s probably enough. I might try steeping it in apple cider in the next few days to determine whether or not I want to keep what’s left. I’m earnestly trying to make my collection a bit more manageable by only keeping teas I really love and/or teas I will really look forward to drinking. I’m not certain this is one of them. Curse you, cinnamon!

The dry leaf smells just like kool-aid to me. Red kool-aid. Don’t ask me the flavor. Maybe a mix of cherry and fruit punch. They should’ve made a candle, too.

This tea is like last summer’s hit, Hard Candy, but better. It doesn’t have coconut, but I’m not sure I miss it all that much. I love coconut in teas, but DT loves to add either coconut or hibiscus (or both!) to just about every summertime herbal. I’m glad it’s missing from this blend. It’s got really great cherry flavor. The cranberry and hibiscus add some tartness but it’s not overwhelming. I don’t get a lot of pineapple flavor, but that’s fine by me. Pineapple is truly hit or miss for me in teas.

I’m enjoying a large glass of it over ice this afternoon. It’s the second consecutive day over 90°F and it’s not even officially spring yet! Heaven help me. (-___-)

I’m glad it’ll be around for awhile. The fact that a portion of the proceeds go toward such a wonderful cause is a bonus. I look forward to drinking it throughout the summer.

This is the best of the spring collection samples I’ve had, but, honestly, that isn’t saying much. It reminds me of Hot Tropic without the spice. The green tea base is very noticeable and not in a pleasant way. Something in the blend leans on the sour side. I’m not a huge fan of pineapple in tea when it’s the predominant flavor, so I’m not terribly disappointed that I don’t love this tea. I’m happy to have sampled it, but I won’t be stocking up. The spring collection is a miss for me. That’s probably a good thing, more money in my pocket to spend on other brands (I’m looking at you 52Teas). Here’s hoping the summer teas are up my alley.

It smells really lovely – in the bag and fully steeped – but oh how I wish apples weren’t the first ingredient. Like with Peanut Butter Cup in the fall, the apple pieces have completely overwhelmed the other ingredients. It’s nutty and the pistachio flavor is there but only just. The tea has a nice creamy quality and (thankfully) I don’t find that it’s as tooth-achingly sweet as Raspberry Cream Pie. Other folks have likened it to Toasted Walnut, and I can certainly understand why. It does have the same nutty, sweet, un-spiced flavor profile. I’m not blown away. I need more pistachio and less apple. I might give it a go as a latte another day and decide whether or not it’s something to add to my collection.

Sweet. Overwhelmingly sweet.

So sweet. So unbelievably sweet.

I got a sample (and a 50g bag) of this with my most recent DT order. I just tried my sample – hot. It doesn’t taste like raspberry cream pie to my taste buds. It tastes like what I wanted Cotton Candy to taste like…only about 10x sweeter. It’s quite artificial tasting. The more I sip the more I’m reminded of that packaged cotton candy that’s available at convenience stores. I don’t get distinct raspberry flavor. It’s more of a generic berry flavor to my palate. The raspberry is more of an aftertaste. On a more positive (sort of) note, the tea is so incredibly sweet that I can’t really taste the rooibos.

I can see why so many people enjoy this as a latte. I imagine the dairy (or other alternative milks) cuts the sweetness of the tea.

This isn’t a tea I’ll be stocking up on. I’ve only had about 4 ounces of my 12-ounce cuppa, and I’m already getting a headache from all the sugar. I don’t know that I’ll be able to finish it. I’m glad I only ordered 50g.

If you’re looking for a (super sickeningly) sweet dessert tea and don’t mind artificial berry flavoring, this is the tea for you.