T2

I do love a good tisane in the morning. This is such a refreshing brew, and makes a great way to start the day! It’s also delicious as an iced tea – add fresh apple to soak up the flavours. Yum!

This is a multipurpose comfort tea for me – today it’s at work. I love that I can brew a cup hot, get distracted, forget about it, and still enjoy it cold later, unlike many teas.

Very savory fragrance although less so on taste. Very lovely drink would probably be great with a meal although I drank it alone.

This tea is excellent.

I’ve gotten fanatical about jasmine teas (not reflected in reviews because lately I’ve been reviewing teas on paper scraps, but they will be on Steepster later), and what I’ve noticed is that some lack the freshness of taste that really makes a good jasmine tea delicious, which is a real shame. This tea does not. It’s fresh, heady, and makes a thoroughly good iced tea. It’s almost a bit perfume-y, but that gives the impression that it’s fake tasting or excessively strong, which is isn’t. I don’t know how they’ve achieved this strength of jasmine flavour without making it taste perfume-y in the negative sense. It’s balanced very well. It’s the best jasmine I’ve had, and I’m now so glad that I have a big pack of it in this hot weather.

I have something like eight or ten more jasmine teas on the way to me from Upton Tea Imports, and another bag that I got from a critically praised tea shop in Sydney, so my mind might change, but at the moment, this is the best to me. It’s just so damned good, and when mixed with a little freshly squeezed orange juice makes an iced tea to die for.

I drank like a litre of this out of a mixing bowl from the freezer today, after having drank a giant three-cup mug of it earlier. I’m not even ashamed of those facts.

I was reluctant to buy this and the other (Melbourne Breakfast) T2 tea that I got, because T2 doesn’t offer sample sizes, and I didn’t think buying full-sized boxes of chain store tea would work out well, but in this case, my reservations have been really unfounded.

When I’ve been buying/ordering tea lately and there’s been so many jasmines, a tiny part of me has thought, “Do you really need to try more jasmines? Can’t you have too much jasmine?” This tea has simplified the answer: NO!

Favourite tea from T2

A ‘black’ oolong with a smooth round woody character and a slight honey/fruit finish. One of my favourite oolongs!

Smooth subtle buttery flavour with fruity aromas and milky/nutty undertones. My favourite green right now.

The vanilla is subtle and chocolatey and balanced by the hint of smokiness from the Yunnan. The keemun adds a fruity sweetness while the Assam provides richness and body.

It is a pleasant green tea with the roundness and softness of vanilla. Simple as that. Don’t over-steep it.

This is my favorite ‘sleepy’ tea, completely free of Chamomile, which is what I search for. This sets the bar for ‘night time’ teas for me (as opposed to simply herbal— I consider the use of ‘calming herbs’ to make a tea a night-time tea).

Oh yeah! I somehow managed to score a T2 sample with my ridiculous amount of goodies from TassieTeaGirl and decided I’d try this guy iced the other day when I needed one.

Zang! I like! There must have been a bit of rosehip? Or hibiscus? Caught near the bottom of my clear base-pour steeper, because as the tea steeped it took on a golden hay kind of colour, but when I poured out it was more orange/peachy! Made me giggle. The tea was definitely nice and refreshing with some nice fresh flavours going on. I want to put gin in this, just because there are juniper berries. Good, good.

Drank the last of mine today, and as I’m trying to run my ample tea stores down a bit I probably won’t see it for a while. Note to self: it’s lovely.

Wow! This tea is incredibly fragrant. The leaves and brewed tea smell like “strawberries and cream” lollies. If you feel like a super sweet fragranced, delicious tea, it would be hard to go past this.

Ermagawd this tea is so ahmazing! You get the hot tea taste at first, then you get a massive, cooling minty taste and feel in your mouth, and when you’ve swallowed it all, it has an amazing, sugary aftertaste from those calendula flowers! Argh it’s so complex and beautiful!!

Used the last of my Southern Sunrise to make a big 2L iced tea for a crazy heatwave this weekend just past!

So I have a boyfriend now for the first time in a long time and it’s nice and I’m happy. He drinks my shimmer punch and I drink this.

Hahaha whoops, I didn’t have this listed in my cupboard. There goes my accurate count… you’d think with this few blends left I’d have a handle on it! Sigh.

Feeling tummy gripe-y this afternoon. Let’s get rid of this tasty sample. I’m not allowed to restock this until I’ve gotten the rest of my ridiculous tea collection right down, but you’d better believe as soon as that happens my Sunrise baby is going straight back to the pool room. Love forever.

Sipdown #15. Bagged up some more of this for a swap and put the rest into a 2L jug for iced tea! Spectacular. I hate not having this in my cupboard at all times but sipdown rules are rules and we’re on the downhill run toward winter now anyway, where Southern Sunrise shines as an iced. Still fabulous warm but iced is where it’s at, so I’ll restock this in the spring. Enjoying this last jug while I can, it’s turned quite chilly this evening!

As a reward for hitting 15 down I’ve busted open a couple of sealed boxes. Hooray, self rewarding!

MWAHAHAHAHAHA I CAN DRINK THE REST OF MY SUNRISE SUPPLY BECAUSE IT’S BEEN ADDED TO THE REGULAR T2 STABLE! TODAY IS THE BEST DAY!

My favourite fruit tisane, this is seriously a dream as an iced tea. A whole hunk of grapefruit but without the tartness of the fruit, complimented by the lemongrass, hibiscus and apple. A bit of added lemon and grapefruit flavour, which is a bit of a letdown (just let the ingredients do the work, T2!). Still, I can’t fault this delicious and refreshing tisane.

I think it was only available as a summer/Christmas (Aus) promotion so I’m hoping they bring it into the standard range, because my cube is getting low!

At first I thought this would be similar to Melbourne Breakfast, due to the vanilla aroma. However, this is a lot lighter and less sweet, much better for drinking on it’s own. I wouldn’t drink it every day, however, it is very pleasant and is a fairly regular tea for me.