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This tea sounded amazing but many people seemed to not enjoy it very much. Even the saleswoman at David’s tea told me it was not worth it. So when I started brewing my cup I did not expect much. Luckily I was presently surprised. The flavors are not very strong but I can definitely detect notes of both banana and chocolate. All in all I was pleasantly surprised by this one so thanks Aimee Popovacki for this sample!!

Brewed a pot of this for people who don’t usually drink tea and they all thought it smelled amazing. Next thing I knew, the people who did not want tea were grabbing mugs to try it out. I think I definitely have found other teas I like more (although I really enjoy this one) but I know I can usually count on this to please a crowd.

I made a pot of this and yet again, my sister stole my cup. Luckily I was prepared with a potful to pour myself another. I love this tea! It is the perfect amount of vanilla and sweetness. Plus no flavor is too much so it is just a nice cup of tea.

Also this makes an amazing latte! When I tried to make one for myself, one of my friends stole it from me.

I caved and ending up going into David’s Tea today. They didn’t have the fall ea on the 2/$5 promo (I was in the one in the Montreal Eaton’s Center)but that didn’t stop me from buying a bunch of different teas. Luckily thanks to you wonderful steepsters I learned you don’t need to buy 50 g, or even 25 g, if you just want to try out a tea so I got about 10 g of 4 different teas that I wanted to try (salted caramel, redberry tonic, vanilla ordchid, and love tea #7), 50 g of White Chocolate Frost and 100 g of Jessie’s Tea. I thought I was done buying tea to take home but I did want to try an iced latte and when I asked the salewoman what she recommended she said fantasy island. I ended up picking up 25 g of that too because they gave me the latte as the saleswoman was packing up my other teas and I quite enjoyed the taste. The coconut and milk combined well to provide a nice creaminess and the sweetness that can sometimes be too overpowering in teas with coconut was nicely cut by the raspberries and tea. All in all, I thought this made for a great first iced latte!

Aimee Popovacki sent me some of this and I am so happy. When prepared as a latte this tastes like a Mexican Hot Chocolate. My sister who dislikes tea tried some and next thing I knew I had to make another cup because she stole mine. Thanks Aimee!!

After having so many dessert teas recently, filled with chocolate and cakey flavors, I decided I wanted something a bit different. Enter my package from Aimee Popovacki and a bag of Santa’s Secret tea. It smelled great – minty but not overpoweringly so. This is what the tea tastes like – it is sweetened from the sprinkles while having a just the right about of mint. Thanks Aimee!!

I was so excited to try this one so when my package from Roswell Strange arrived I ran to the kettle to get the water boiling. I was a little let down because I was expecting more of the s’mores flavor but I mostly just got black tea. Perhaps if I brew it in water that has cooled a bit it the flavors might come out more? Or perhaps my issue was I brewed it a little too long which I just noticed reading the info about the tea. One the plus side, the smell and aftertaste were distinctly marshmallow which was nice. I am glad there is more in the sample I got so that I can experiment with this tea. Thanks Roswell Strange!!

I dropped my rating on this because I noticed the oils in it more and more but I still think it is a very enjoyable cup.

Finally made my Gingerbread Latte! I don’t even know why this popped into my head or why I have been thinking about it for days but I have finally made it and it is…okay. I think I prefer this as plain tea. The cakey flavor is brought out in the latte and I find it to be too overpowering. Well you live and you learn.

Thank you to Sil for my sample of this matcha. I tried this both as a latte and plain and to be honest I was not as in love with it as I anticipated I would be. I think I am on the minority with this one but I did not really notice the caramel too much. I didn’t think it was bad just not the flavor I was expecting. However, I don’t think I blended the matcha too well because there was powder at the bottom of my cup so maybe that has something to do with it. I will finish up the sample but I don’t think I will be buying more of this flavor.