La La Lemon (Organic)

This is my second try at La La Lemon. The first time my boyfriend got it as a to go, I couldn’t taste any lemon at all and thought it was a dud tea.

I finally picked it up again because a friend of mine bought some for herself and her mom and they both loved it. I figured maybe I just didn’t have enough citrus pieces the first time. Anyway, I decided to give it another go and wow! The lemon is picked up a lot better this time and this is probably one of the first black teas that I really enjoy.

Because the black tea leaves are Black Yunnan, it’s lighter in taste and I don’t get a huge bitter taste like I do with most teas because they use regular China black tea.

I might go back to pick up a tin!

1.5 tsp for 300mL water @100C, steeped four minutes, drunk bare.

An old favourite. With so many of DavidsTea’s offerings declining in quality - no more Keemun, the milk oolong now being milk-flavoured. the David’s Breakfast blend changing every few months - it’s good to find one basic blended tea that’s not not gone to pot. The Yunnan base is sweet and mellow enough to play with the lemon oil versus fighting with it, as a brisker Indian black tea might. Refreshing.

Got this To-Go from the store this morning. I’ve had smoother lemon teas. There was something slightly jarring between the lemon flavor and the orange flavor in here. Was there bergamot? Somehow the oily orange flavor didn’t combine with both the lemon and the orange rind very well. I could taste each one distinctly, but they didn’t seem to come to accord in my mouth.

The base itself seemed like a very strong, tannic breakfast tea. It would have tasted nice with a squeeze of fresh lemon.

La la lemon, I’m noticing today has a nice strength about it tea-wise. I don’t know how to put it, but this tea is just strong and soothing all at the same time. I love the aroma of this tea. There’s something about a good smelling black tea with a hint of lemon that just says yummm.

Just had to add that tonight I am really enjoying this iced with a shot of Raspberry Lemonade. Soooooo good.

The package instructions say steep this for 4-6 minutes. Well I went with four, and I think that was still too long. There were hints of lemon here, but it was overpowered by the astringency of the black tea. It wasn’t a horrid cup, but it definitely wasn’t the lemon black I expected. Before I rate this one I’m going to try it again with a shorter steep time. There is still hope for this one.

The first time I drank was a couple of weeks ago and I way over steeped it. It tasted good just too strong. The second time I steeped it just right and it was delicious! I took this one to work for my lemon tea and everytime I make it at work it is too bitter. The first time was almost undrinkable, the second time slightly less bitter and the third time just alittle bitter. I think my work kettle makes the water hotter than my home kettle because I stop them at what seems to be the same time frame but my work one makes it bitter. I just keep stopping the kettle earlier and earlier until I get it just right.

Honestly I can not wait for summer to come so I can ice it, I am told it taste just like Lipton Ice Tea which I love!

When I went to David’s Tea last Saturday I decided to get pretty much every tea that had lemon in it. I loooove lemon and was looking for the best lemon tea ever (which I think I have found in Coco-Lemon Thai even though it’s not just lemon it’s also coconut and creaminess and decadence and ok I won’t get started on this one again, god I love it!) Naturally I could not ignore something called “La la lemon”.

I’m happy I got to try it but I care for it much. Even though I had this one hot, the taste was exactly the same as unsweetened Lipton’s Brisk iced tea, which I’m not a fan of. I put some sugar in it (something I very rarely do with tea), and then it tasted exactly like the sweetened version of Lipton’s Brisk iced tea.

All in all, not something I would re-purchase, but I think I’ll be able to enjoy a cup once in a while and finish my 25g bag. I still have a lot of other lemon teas to try ! :)

A little bit of backlog here: I had this one almost 2 weeks ago. I went in to the mall for a course and had to grab this on my way out. At first I was skeptical about iced lemon teas in general but then I had a thought that it could be like lemonade in a sense and smelled a couple of them. Out of the ones I smelled, this one smelled the best to me and also is the one I thought would’ve best iced. The smell of this is quite citrusy but much sweeter than I would have expected. It smelled more like lemon candies! I really loved this tea and plan to buy some! As I am again using my phone to write this and cannot rate, I will just mention here I am giving this tea a 90.

Mehhh. I think 3 minutes might have been a bit too long of a steep for this one. I don’t get very much lemon from this, it’s mostly the black tea. It’s actually alllllmost like an earl grey. I think it has potential. I’m gonna try a short steep next time and maybe a tiny bit of honey or agave.