6106 Tasting Notes
After a slew of delicious teas from Bird & Blend, I was bound to be disappointed by one, right? This would be the one. Interestingly, the leaf looked very similar to that of Cherry Bakewell. Flower petals, hibiscus, white tea. I liked Cherry Bakewell, so no problem there – except that I was missing the aromas of cotton candy that I expected. This trend continued into the aroma and flavour – no cotton candy that I could discern. In fact, I probably could have been convinced that I was drinking Cherry Bakewell instead (except for the stevia. I noticed the stevia. :( ). Very odd. I am, of course, used to the delicious cotton candy flavours of 52teas, and maybe it’s just much more subtle here, but that was not at all what I was hoping for.
On the plus side, same white tea deliciousness as Cherry Bakewell. I’ll give it another shot, though (probably side by side with that tea), and maybe use a bit more leaf – perhaps all the flower petals resulted in me underleafing the cup.
I guess I ordered a fair number of caffeine-free Bird & Blend teas. Luckily, they seem to do such teas pretty well. This is one that sounded just delicious despite the base, and yet again, the flavourings do seem to counteract the base sufficiently to make drinking it enjoyable for me (although like with Moondrop Dreams, it would be better with say, a nice Chinese black base.)
Anyhow, this tea is quite potent upon opening the package. Strong banana and alcohol flavours, along with some sweetness. As is not typical of teas, the tea also actually tasted nearly as strong as the aroma, with delicious banana-rum-toffee sweetness. A hint of rooibos, that I could do without, but the strongest flavours are by far the banana and rum. I’m fairly impressed. Not my favourite tea, but it’s yummy and accurate to its description; I will enjoy what I have of it and that’s probably sufficient for me!
YES. This tea is everything I hoped it would be. Sweet, creamy lavender and an amazing pop of lemon. Absolutely delicious. Just nix the rooibos and it would be my perfect lavender tea (whyyyy do the best lavender teas have rooibos bases?!). Fortunately, the base isn’t too bothersome, but a nice black/white blend would suit it much better.
Really happy I picked this up; would be a definite repurchase from me if I order again and it’s around.
I think the rooibos B&B uses is really good… the rooibos could be worse, so I generally like their blends. I like their rooibos better than their older Ceylon! I think they use a better base now though. I think this is one of the previous vote winners so it’s a permanent tea!
Yeah, it seems to be better than what some companies use! I’m not too familiar with their other base teas, though I’m admittedly not fond of whatever Lady Lavender has as the base (it is strong and harsh). Very glad to hear this is a previous vote winner! And no wonder; it’s so good.
Curious. I (originally) rated this a 50, because I thought I tasted bell peppers in it? I’m definitely not consistent in my tea ratings….
Anyways, it was all goodness and no pesky bell pepper flavours this time, and had a subtle but present kick of heat that I enjoyed. Yum. Bumping the rating up to 77; maybe I was just grumpy last time I rated it? I’m looking forward to drinking up the last of it…
This was very boring-tasting, but it also may have been brewed incorrectly (and is old). Alphakitty’s description sounds good though, so that inspires me to try it again soon – I didn’t brew it up myself, and had it in a travel mug, both factors that could have caused it to be a little off (leaning towards the travel mug though, since my mom knows how to brew greens and probably even timed it!), but who knows.
Sipdown! 136/365!
Well oops. This is the tea I so badly oversteeped the other day that it was horribly astringent and I thought it was Vicky’s Sponge Cake… etc. I thought I’d had it recently but I guess I had not, so I won’t be able to say whether or not this tea was ever decent! However, the fact that a white tea got that astringent suggests to me that this probably wasn’t an amazing tea to begin with, but I’ll likely never know. (I did drink it, though. But the whole time, I was desperately searching for berry/sponge cake flavours, which I found none of. If there was anything else, I was blinded by my search.)
This tea is divine. It looks like I had two swap samples of the original Frank version, and loved them both, so it’s hardly surprising that I’m crazy over this version, too. I love a houjicha base; I can’t be certain what the white tea added here, but the combo was perfect. And the creamy coconut-banana combo is heavenly.
This reminds me a bit of Gray’s Teacake Kukicha (or vice versa, as I drank them in that order), though this has obvious banana and the other does not. There are similar in their toasty creaminess and of course, coconut.
Big win with this one. Literal dessert in a cup.
Hands down my favourite of the GoT teas. I expected to like this, a lot, and I did. I think I oversteeped it a tad when I had it, but it was still deliciously beany dragonwell and berries. I’m not entirely sure that this is a blend I might have thought of when thinking of dragonglass (that makes me think of licorice, actually, which I’m thankful is not involved here), but it’s fun that the base is dragonwell. And it’s delicious, so I don’t much care.
Planning on a second cup of this tomorrow evening while watching episode 5, as we’re all caught up now. I’m interested to see where things all end up, and debating about reading the books once it’s all over.
ETA: Read the description and ok, blackberries with dragonwell is actually pretty fitting. I’d forgotten what berries were actually used.
The show is too graphic/emotional for me, but I love the books. It’s so hard to avoid spoilers as I’ll have to wait I don’t even know how many years to find out what happens!
I want to read the books now. Books are almost always better, but I tend to have less and less time to read things as I get older! Sad.
I see there is a swath of negative reviews for this tea. Poor tea. My experience with it has been better; I wasn’t wowed but it’s basically a somewhat creamy lemon green. Light in flavour, and IIRC a tendency to bitter. There are a fair number of teas I’d prefer to drink, though, and this is enough like Sun & Cloud Mist that I’d just take that one instead.
