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Early evening cuppa.

Less lemon heavy in flavour this time around; though I did switch from a softer steep temp to using boiling water because I know that this one can hold up to boiling water. It still had some lemon too it, but overall was a lot more straw heavy in terms of flavour with a nutty sweet finishing taste.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Midday cuppa!

I was feeling a touch festive this afternoon, so I cracked open some walnuts and have a nice cup of tea paired with walnuts and Christmas Sweater shaped sugar cookies as an early afternoon snack.

This tea is ok; it has a custardy component which is I think where the “eggnog” comes from in the name but it’s more cinnamon/clove with creamy undertones and hints of orange than it is straight up eggnog to me. Actually though, as I sip on it this isn’t the only tea I’ve seen that uses that custard and cinnamon/clove pairing to recreate the taste of eggnog though! DAVIDsTEA released a tea this year that uses that exact combo of ingredients to make an eggnog flavour – and I actually think DT’s does a better job recreating it. I wonder why that is? The difference in base teas? Or maybe this is just heavier on the spices which brings me out of the imagery a little more.

Anyway – it was a nice enough cup and even if I wasn’t feeling the ’nog I do think it was very wintery/festive in spirit regardless.

Cold Brew!

I’ve decided that I’m gonna work towards a sipdown with this one – hoarding be damned!

It’s funny ‘cause I bought like 40g of this one specifically to hoard so that I’d have some around for next summer in case it didn’t get brought back, but I have so many teas on hand and I know it’ll be a quick sipdown if I just cold brew this one to use it up. Plus, nice as it was I don’t think it was unique enough to feel sad about if I don’t have it around for next summer. I can always find something similar enough elsewhere.

This brew was nice though! More pineapple and orange than raspberry, but I like that sort of citrus and tropical fruit pairing quite a bit actually – especially with some sort of sort differing fruit undertone to provide just enough layering of flavour to give the herbal some nuance – raspberry in this case. Stonefruit would be nice too though; like a peach or an apricot kind of thing. Of course, it warrants being pointed out that it’s a very candy sweet and slightly aritifical fruit flavour though. If DT ever revisits this one in the future I’d love to see a very slight formula change, just to introduce some lime into the blend to actually make this a little more like the traditional trio of fruit flavours in Rainbow Sherbet. Pineapple is nice, but not the same.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Placed my very first Citizen tea order a little while ago because they were doing a free shipping promo! Now that is how you get my business – free shipping is the fucking BEST because it lets me order whatever I want without feeling guilt. Tons of little baby samples? Can do! Only one tea, but a decent amount of it? Yup! Both of those approaches have some major pros – both in terms of introducing yourself to a company and just in regard to restocking favourites.

In this circumstance, I went for two medium-ish quantities of teas I’d been really curious about for a while with the knowledge that I’d also get three free samples which would help with the whole sampling/introducing myself to this companies offerings thing. This was one of the teas I was specifically interested in though; I’m very into fruity whites and I’ve liked A LOT of the bamboo teas I’ve tried in the past so I was intrigued by the presence of both those things – plus cranberry is a flavour you can enjoy year round but that feels particularly appropriate around winter.

My first tasting of this was as an iced tea, and I have to say I was very impressed by it! It was very soft and light bodied, but with a great crispness and really light, delicate vegetal/grassy notes from the bamboo! Like, that tastes comes through really clearly and it just works very well as an iced tea. It’s like the best parts of white tea and green tea converged into one, with a very clear/defined finish that makes it feel all the more refreshing/hydrating.

What made it better was the cranberry though. It wasn’t a bold or rich flavour, but it was really present in the top of the sip as this really lively burst of both distinct cranberry sweetness and just a fleck or too of tartness, which transitioned really nicely into that bamboo heavy body flavour. I think it’s a really well executed balance that really, really represents all of the things in the blend! Colour me impressed!

Song Pairing: https://youtu.be/BKLVpDTZOPQ

Iced Tea!

Brought some of my personal stash of this one with me to work to make a cup of it there because I was craving that sweet, smooth tropical fruit flavour! This was just a super satisfying drink, and really refreshing. Primary flavour was DT’s trademark passionfruit taste but there were apple undertones too and I even got some of the apricot in the blend as well! This is one that I’m actually really happy that I stocked up on!

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Had a pot of this one before bed a few nights ago.

Normally I’m really into this one, but maybe I just over did the steep or something ’cause this time around I found it almost sickly sweet and borderline generically fruity. I mean, a whole lot of apple and some pineapple notes but mostly just like a really sweet fruit syrup. Almost like the cocktail syrup in canned fruit cocktail? It was just a little too much right before bed.

Ironically I drank this blend at about midnight last night, as my last tea of the day.

It was quite nice though; and I mean it always is so I’m more pointing out its lovely consistency rather than saying so because it was any time of surprise. Lovely sweet, smooth milk chocolate/fudge notes with earthy and malty undertones and almost a sort of sweet, rum like undertone? Also a little nutty in the finish. Just a very good, well balanced dessert flavour overall though.

Midday tea earlier last week, meant to break up the several caffeinated teas I was drinking that day. It was soft, soothing and calming with A LOT of very sweet spearmint notes to it. That’s not a bad thing at all, I just know that there are quite a few different things in the blend so it’s always just a little weird when you get such a concentrated blast of one of those ingredients and not the other ones. I mean, I got a little lavender but honestly not a lot. Just TONS of spearmint.

First tea that I decided to crack into from my AQTT Black Friday order! And how could I not, with a name like George Daddy!? I mean, where does a name like that even come from?

I tried this one hot because while I’m sure it would make a lovely iced tea something about it seemed better suited to me as a hot drink. I also did half the cup straight, and half the cup with added in milk. I enjoyed it both ways, but I think I liked it just slightly more with a touch of milk.

As a straight tea, there was just this thinness to it both in flavour and in mouthfeel. I mean, still pretty delicious with milk chocolate/fudge sort of notes and a really sweet banana flavour! The banana reminded me heavily of the banana flavoured Penicillin medicine or those spongey banana marshmallow candies. Just wicked sweet and artificial, but also so, so good. Together, the chocolate and banana was a little banana split like, also. I didn’t really taste the graham, to be honest. I also thought the oolong wasn’t particularly oolong-like? Maybe that’s why VariaTEA liked it though, since she doesn’t love oolongs. For me, it was more like a really light bodied/weak black tea base.

With milk, I just felt like some of the ‘gaps/thinness was filled out a bit more and it made for a profile that felt just a touch more complete/whole. The mouthfeel was thicker, and there was some creaminess in the flavour with compensated for the thinner base, and strengthened that Banana Split sort of imagery. It was more satisfying, not that it was bad on its own. Actually, it was still pretty great straight – this was just a hair better. I’m definitely excited to drink more of this though because I see it being an EXCELLENT dessert tea option!

I always forget that this tea is a thing, and that I have a fair bit of it left at home…

Found it while doing a stash reorg. earlier in the week with my little sister; we were trying to make more storage space for some of the incoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday stuff, and this one was shoved way in the back of my herbal teas section. I made a hot cup, and it was delightful! I mean, not surprisingly – I love pineapple teas and pina colada flavours are even better and that’s basically what this one is. A really rich, sweet and bright pina colada with subtle apple/mango touches. It just feels like it’s been so long since revisiting this one…

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.