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Perfect cold brew!

Got home late from work last night and I just felt so exhausted so it was the best to have prestrained cold brew waiting for me in the fridge to sip on immediately after getting in for the night. This is the best melon tea – it’s so good. Definitely the treat I needed after a long week!

Oof. This tea is waaayyy more ginger than it is Creme Brulee, but I suppose there are hints of sweetness among all that heavy ginger. It’s a sweet/hot ginger, with a touch of earthiness. Not my thing at all, but I’m glad I took myself out of my comfort zone by trying it. I think a ginger fan would enjoy it, but I don’t think it’s creme brulee at all even if you do like ginger…

Hot evening cuppa from a few weeks back!

Just as lovely as ever with sweet cantaloupe and refreshingly bright citrus/lemongrass notes mixed with a kiss of ginger to make the whole thing feel just a touch sweeter, crisper, and more nuanced. I love this blend, and now that it’s looking like A Quarter to Tea might not come back at all it just makes me even sadder I didn’t think to stock up on this one/ask for reblend when she was offering to do that.

(Also, can I just say how much I appreciate her doing reblends before closing up! She definitely didn’t need to, but it was such a kind thing to do for fans of her blends!)

Oh Seahawk… What do you even say about Seahawk!?

He’s definitely a character that annoyed me a bit at first, but he kind of grows on you in an irritating sort of why where at the end of the series he was in my top three favourite characters. I particularly love his relationship with Mermista. It’s hard to verbalize why their relationship is so endearing to me, but I think a huge part of it is how completely supportive he is of her in everything she does and also how he is ALWAYS completely honest about how he feels about her.

So lets talk about this blend! It’s one of the most clever Adagio fan blends I’ve seen in a long time! You have a mix of tropical fruit heavy teas along with Lapsang Souchong. This confused me at first, but then I realized the tropical fruits are because he’s a pirate sailing through exotic locals and the Lapsang is because one of his reoccuring character traits is that he burns down ships. It’s genius, and hilarous!

More than that, though, it also tastes incredible! I swear something magic happens basically whenever you use Lapsang in flavoured tea blends, but the combination of really sweet and fresh pineapple notes with hints of coconut, cinnamon, lemongrass and then a really lingering finish of woody pine smoke from the Lapsang tastes fucking incredible together! It’s the perfect marriage of this very Thai inspired tasting tropical chai/pina colada vibe mixing with the savory smoke. Yum yum yum!!

I swear, this is giving my long standing favourite Adagio blend (The Woman) a real run for its money!

I recently binged the entire She-Ra and The Princesses of Power series on Netflix, but about halfway through my binge I placed an Adagio order for Halloween teas and I decided to add some She-Ra blends into the mix too…

It was tempting to buy a tea for each character I loved (which is A LOT of the characters), but I was smart and only bought blends for characters I loved that also sounded like teas I might enjoy. That ended up being two characters; Scorpia and Seahawk. Scorpia is actually my favourite character in the entire series so I was excited to get this blend! I also love Catra/Mermista/Entrapta, but their blends didn’t speak to me the same way. I ended up drinking this tea, and the Seahawk tea which I’ll write a note for after this, while binging the final season – and it made that last season feel SO SPECIAL. I could gush about She-Ra for hours, but I wont. Instead lets talk about the tea…

This is essentially a chocolate and cherry blend, which is a tricky combo but always nice if done well! In particular, it uses Dewy Cherry which is a blend from Adagio that I actually really enjoy. My all time favourite Adagio fandom tea (The Woman) uses this blend so I had high hopes. Maybe too high, honestly. The flavour of dewy cherry comes through and, as expected, it is the best part. However I don’t like it with the milk chocolate notes and very tannic black tea; it just doesn’t mesh well. The idea for this blend, I think, was to combine to sweet and bright/cheerful things – which is perfect for Scorpia as a character. She’s drawn as the most masculine/tough and intimidating of the princesses and covered in sharp armor, but in reality is the gentlest and kindest and most cheerful of the characters. So either a sweet and soft milk chocolate or a bright and cheerful cherry would have been perfect for her! But creamy milk chocolate and vibrant cherry just don’t couple well, sadly.

But it’s a Scorpia tea – so I was happy either way!

Cold Brew!

Extra leaf and extra steep time, because this always tastes so flat/weak. Taking those steps definitely did, well, something. I just don’t know if it was a good something. The tea had flavour, especially strawberry, but it was a very sour bordering on vinegar-y type of strawberry flavour. Not really super enjoyable, especially combined with the very stale tasting white tea. Boo.

Cold Brew!

Not sure what the difference was, but I didn’t enjoy this cold brew so much. It was peachy, but it mostly tasted like apple tidbits and carrot which was not really what I was going for in this steep, so I just felt sort of let down…

New tea! This one sort of snuck online last week without much fanfare, with that “mini capsule” of unflavoured teas I talked about in my Golden Dragon Pu’erh note…

I feel conflicted about this tea on a purely personal level because I really think it’s very well balanced – which is really tricky when you’re working with so many dominant flavours – but all the flavours are ones I typically don’t love. The blend is basically green tea, ginger, jasmine, and straight matcha – with zero flavouring. Not really favourites of mine. So it’s always interesting having one foot in the camp of “wow, the craft behind this is exceptional” and another in the camp of “but I don’t like it”.

So I guess I would probably rank the flavours, in terms of presence, as…

- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Green Tea
- Matcha

The blend is overall very flavourful which is very impressive given the lack of flavouring – I think you absolutely wouldn’t realize its a flavour free blend without it being pointed out; it’s not flat at all. The ginger is more of a hot and earthy ginger to me, and it’s only slightly stronger than the jasmine, which is conveyed through the jasmine scented green tea instead of a jasmine oil or flavouring. I wouldn’t expect these two flavours to work together, but they do seem to offset each other very nicely. The ginger draws out sweetness from the jasmine while the floral notes soften some of the earthier qualities. Even though it’s quite flavour forward, I’d call it light to medium bodied.

The matcha is mild – and that makes sense to me because this blend uses compressed matcha instead of a dusting of matcha. It infuses into the cup, but in a more controlled way, and it helps preserve the aesthetic of the blend also.

I’ve not seen reviews on this yet (not just on Steepster but on other platforms too), but I would be soooo fascinated to see what someone who actually does like ginger or jasmine green tea would think of the blend. I don’t really feel like I’m in the position to be as objective about it as I want to be…

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 and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Another one that I had on one of the last “patio weather” type days of the year, which was the perfect weather for a nice mug of Negroni. It might have felt more summery if I’d had it chilled, but this was a hot cup that was still just as delicious. Very boozy tasting with a lot of that tonic flavouring coming through alongside very syrupy yet pithy orange notes. It’s exactly what I want from a Negroni, and it was a good sipping tea for the afternoon.

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 and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Cold Brew!

Had this on what is probably one of the last truly nice and sunny “patio weather” days of the year, which made it all the more delicious and special feeling. I imagine I’ll drink this one throughout winter anyway – but it just hits that much better with summer weather.

More coconut than pineapple, but both present. Very thick and creamy with just the right sweetness and body, perfectly conveying the decadence of a really good pina colada.

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 and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.