Black Cherry

Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Black Tea, Blackberry Leaves, Licorice Root, Natural And Artificial Flavouring, Papaya, Sour Cherry
Flavors
Artificial, Bread, Cherry, Fruity, Malt, Medicinal, Smooth, Sweet, Candy, Fruit Punch, Licorice, Astringent, Sour, Tobacco, Cherry Wood, Overripe Cherries, Sugar
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Caffeine
Medium
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Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 45 sec 13 oz / 374 ml

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From DAVIDsTEA

This sweet and refreshing black tea perfectly captures the taste of a black cherry soda. For a summer treat, try it over ice with a splash of sparkling water.

Ingredients: Black tea, papaya, sweet blackberry leaves, sour cherries, licorice root, natural cherry flavoring

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DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

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9 tasting notes

I’m really torn with this tea… I picked up 30g of this to try because the dry leaf just blew me away! It’s so nostalgic and delicious smelling… I could just wear the bag of it around my neck all day huffing it.

Dry Leaf: CHERRY! Cherry punch/soda, sour cherry, cherry tobacco
Liquor: a bit deeper smelling… Still unabashedly cherry-full
Tasting notes: ICED- black cherry syrup, blackberry leaf, sour cherry

So as I said, I’m torn with this tea. Dry leaf & liquor wise, the smell is fabulous. It’s important to note that I made teapop out of this, so my review isn’t going to be 100% legit, I realize. However, I made double strength and used plain sparkling water, iced. The flavor was good… I wanted to love it. I didn’t hate it, but it didn’t blow me away. There was something in the background that threw me off… Possibly the blackberry leaf? It made everything go askew. It started off tasting just as I hoped then, blech, something off. I also wished there was more sour cherry flavor once steeped & iced.

All in all, I will eventually power through all 30g, as it’s summertime, but I’ll be honest… I may pawn some of it off on ice tea for my daughter. Probably wouldn’t purchase again… Unless to use for fragrance sachets! lol!

Flavors: Cherry, Cherry Wood, Fruit Punch, Overripe Cherries, Sour, Tobacco

Preparation
Iced 5 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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1711 tasting notes

This tea is a totally different animal when cold steeped! Much more enjoyable and refreshing. It still has that weird tang that leaves me suspecting stevia like a couple other David’s Teas that have sugar added. The tea is sweet, but has a slight sour tang or pucker to it. I’m still not head over heels about it, but if cold steeped, I can easily finish the rest of this sample.

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11 tasting notes

can really smell the cherry flavour!

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1908 tasting notes

Argh, did I steep this wrong? Because it tastes like a particularly revolting brand of cough syrup. Bleh!!! I’m going to have to pour some out and then dilute it because it literally isn’t drinkable as is.

I made this up as an iced tea using the same method as usual (30 g of tea) in 1 liter boiling water steeped 5:30 min and then I filled the pitcher up the rest of the way with ice to make 2 liters. What about you – those of you who enjoyed it?

Preparation
Iced 5 min, 30 sec
Christina / BooksandTea

I used the same method as you, though I don’t think I used 30g. Wasn’t weighing it out. Boiling water for about 4-5 minutes, then a top-up with cold water and a sit overnight in the fridge.

I don’t get the cough syrup flavour that you do, but I agree that there’s definitely something off in the background. A pity, because the tea smells great.

Jillian

30g is about the same as the 8 tsp they recommend. It could be that I oversteeped it, though given that the time range was 4-7 minutes I didn’t think 5.5 min was that bad.

Sil

didn’t like it…same boat as you heh

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17 tasting notes

Tried this tea in-store, iced, and purchased 50g of it right away. I’m a little apprehensive of cherry-flavored things, but the smell and taste of this tea blew me away. The cherry flavor is not too artificial, which is something I like (as compared to something like Cherry Blossom).

Flavors: Cherry, Sweet

Preparation
Iced

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606 tasting notes

I am VERY surprised by this one. Years ago, Davidstea did a Cherry Cola tea that I very much didn’t like. Today, I’m trying this one hoping it tastes nothing like that one. And I’m very glad to say that it doesn’t taste like it at all.

This cherry tea is so good! I am getting a very nice cherry flavour that isn’t tart but rather nice and sweet. I know there’s a bit of licorice root in this one which always makes me nervous, but this time it’s hard to even really notice any real licorice flavour. It’s just lovely cherry goodness.

I can’t wait to try this one as a teapop!!

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987 tasting notes

Sipdown.

Made the rest of my mini-container as an iced tea, and I’m still not loving this. The hubby enjoys it, but when I drink it, I get this very unpleasant chemical aftertaste. What a pity – it smells lovely and luscious and fruity.

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15061 tasting notes

this one is weird. I both and like it at the same time. It smells amazing. it tastes..delicious and then artificial and weird…and then ok and then awful… lol I think final verdict is that i dislike this. I prefer their other cherry related things over this black cherry concoction.

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1792 tasting notes

Haven’t written in two weeks, eh? Guess I’ve been busy. Busy being useless. Or something.

I’ve almost never had luck with cherry teas. They tend to taste like cough syrup. Come on, why can’t they taste like actual cherries? Dried cherries taste fabulous anyway, so just stick some of those in there and all should be fine, right?

The dry leaf smells pretty good, like cherries, for sure. But once again, I’m hit in the face with Robitussin. Pass.

FWIW, DAVIDs Hard Candy isn’t too bad for a cherry tea, seeing that it has that cherry Starburst vibe going on. Does this mean that teas can only taste like artificial cherry candy but never like real cherry?

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94 tasting notes

Delightful iced tea! Pretty much exactly as advertised. Love that I can get the black cherry flavour without all the crap that’s in pop. This would probably be excellent as a tea pop.

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