Sour Watermelon

Not too bad! I was a little hesitant to try it, this tea takes me so far out of my tasting spectrum. I tried it iced with my tea press. It reminds me exactly of the watermelon gummies or of a watermelon jolly rancher. Delightfully tart at first, but it settles down for a relaxing experience afterwards. Recommended for when you are craving something sweet but don’t want to indulge on crazy calories! This is the PERFECT sweet tooth fix!

Strong artificial watermelon flavour (not a bad thing) that I found to be reminiscent of watermelon flavoured Jolly Ranchers. It was not sour in the way that strong hibiscus teas are; it’s not tart. Very smooth mouthfeel with no astringency that I’ve noticed in other tart or sour teas. A very sweet tea that works best iced.

This tea is so deliciously sour. I’m really jonesing for another nice melon blend (sans carrots!). It’s nice to have a mini stash of this blend in my collection on hot summer days. I might have to get some limeade and make an Arnold Palmer the next time around.

Got a sample in the mail from my April Fools day order when DavidsTea had 20% off their goodies. Tried this tea iced. This tea smells like boiled eggs once brewed. I was brave and decided to try it anyways and thank goodness it tastes better than it smells! Could have been disastrous. However, it is not my favorite cup of tea so I will have to pass on this one.

Well, this is sour alright. It basically tastes close to Luscious Watermelon – but sour. For me the sourness took away any sweetness this may have had – so I had to add some sugar. Overall though this tea is alright, but not my favourite. I’ll finish the solo I got eventually, but I’m not buying more.

I drank this fast and to be honest I have no idea if it was good or not. I guess it went down fast though so couldn’t have been bad.

Hooray Summer Collection!

So, it’s official – our new summer collection, the Sorbet Collection, has launched today along with the seasonal teaware – and yes that means that we wont have a Spring Collection this year. Instead, the company focused on several smaller mini collections during that time period. I did the set up for everything for this new collection last night, and I have to say I’ve fallen pretty hard for all the neon colours. They kind of reminds me of the eighties a bit. In the end I ended up grabbing the Electric Purple Locktop and the Green gradient Nordic mug – only afterwards did I realize that meant needing to find homes for them on my tea shelves. Still working on that part of things…

Since all the new teas are geared towards being prepared iced, that’s how I first tasted all of them, so prepare for a string of tasting notes for the whole collection coming up momentarily. The only one I’m not going to be reviewing is Coco Colada because it was part of the collection last year and nothing about that one has changed this time around…

So, Sour Watermelon! This is the tea I was most intrigued by in the new collection – just how sour would it be? Would the sourness be contributed solely by hibiscus? Would there still be a decent amount of sweetness!?

Well, I have to say that it IS quite sour but more in the way that sour candy, like sour patch kids, would be – and that sour quality primarily comes from the sour apple used in the blend and not from hibiscus. Overall, I think it tastes quite a bit like a sour Watermelon Jolly Rancher with some apple undertones. I think it’s just sweet enough, since it does give off ‘candy vibes’ and I’d worry that any added sweetener might make the whole thing taste over the top. Besides, the really interesting this about this one that sets it apart from our other melon teas is the sourness.

Out of the four new ones, this one comes in as my 2nd favourite – but it’s pretty close to my overall favourite. Like, really close. Also, as far as our staff goes this one was the overall favourite of the staff!

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.