I should probably drink more teas if I want my stash to ever decrease! I’m just not as excited about teas anymore; probably because I have spent a lot of time lately focusing on sipdowns and thus drinking teas I don’t really love. Good thing I have some new DF teas coming in; those should be a pick me up!
This is of course one of the blends club blends from last month. When I had my little rant about the redundancy of Verdant’s blends the other week I didn’t realize that this has sarsaparilla in it as well. WHY MUST ALL OOLONGS CONTAIN SARSAPARILLA? I say this as someone who loves root beer/sarsaparilla/birch beer. But it’s too much. They all taste the same.
I am nevertheless rating this one slightly higher than the others because I think the orange adds a needed brightness and the vanilla a needed smoothness that really help this blend. That said, I feel like the flavors are a bit weak in this one. I added a bit more to my steeping basket because the first scoop seemed to be mostly “stuff” and little actual tea, and I was wondering if it would be too much for my 12oz cup at 3 minutes, but not so. Definitely not oversteeped, and definitely wishing for more vanilla and orange. And less sarsaparilla/birch. Ah well, into the cold brew basket it goes.
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which DF did you order Dinosara ? I’m curious :)
I ordered more Caramel-Toffee and Fleurilège, as well as Amore, Bulgare, and Rose de Mai (a limited edition tin). I haven’t tried the last three. :)
seems great and rose teas are often so lovely. The classic rose of DF is one of my favorite rose teas.
I dislike sarsaparilla in tea so far lol, the smell just turns me off. Unfortunately I quit the blends club because of this haha just not to my personal taste..I haven’t even tried this tea yet for fear it will be too sarsaparilla-y.
Having said what I said in this note, it wasn’t SUPER sarsaparilla-y. Not as much as the others, at least.
You and I are totally in the same boat. I mean, I still love tea, but I’ve immensely slowed down on the tea consumption because I’ve been forcing myself to sip a lot down and cut the stash in half before trying anything new or restocking on favourites.
which DF did you order Dinosara ? I’m curious :)
I ordered more Caramel-Toffee and Fleurilège, as well as Amore, Bulgare, and Rose de Mai (a limited edition tin). I haven’t tried the last three. :)
seems great and rose teas are often so lovely. The classic rose of DF is one of my favorite rose teas.
I dislike sarsaparilla in tea so far lol, the smell just turns me off. Unfortunately I quit the blends club because of this haha just not to my personal taste..I haven’t even tried this tea yet for fear it will be too sarsaparilla-y.
Having said what I said in this note, it wasn’t SUPER sarsaparilla-y. Not as much as the others, at least.
You and I are totally in the same boat. I mean, I still love tea, but I’ve immensely slowed down on the tea consumption because I’ve been forcing myself to sip a lot down and cut the stash in half before trying anything new or restocking on favourites.