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The flavor here is just thin and strange. It’s definitely berries, but they taste artificial and watered down. There’s a background flavor I’ve noticed in several English Tea Store fruit teas that’s artificial and strange, and I notice it here too.

This tea smells strongly of sweet strawberries. It needs to be overleafed, but the strawberry flavor is quite authentic and tasty. With milk, it’s like strawberries and cream. It’s a dessert tea that isn’t too heavy and indulgent.

I put a ton of leaf in the cup, but even so, the brew turned out a bit weak, like murky dishwater. It’s better with milk. It mostly tastes like mild toastiness. The black tea is not very present. I love a toasty tea, but this is one of the weaker ones I’ve had. I haven’t loved any of the T2 teas I’ve tried. Yet I still made an order yesterday when they were having a sale. I am weak. Like this tea.

The rooibos here is a little peppery. Maybe that’s from the hazelnut flavoring. It’s not a flavoring I prefer in any blend I find it in. I love all other nuts, but hazelnuts are sometimes weird for me. I don’t sense any chocolate here. The blend is rather thin and unexciting. I wish I’d had milk in the house when I drank this one because I’m sure that would have helped, but even so, it wasn’t up to par with other chocolate rooibos blends. Or I guess it kind of was because many chocolate rooibos blends aren’t super great. But some are. Not really this one.

This brewed up pretty light. The bergamot is quite sharp. Sugar and milk make it pleasant. It’s not the perfect earl grey, but I can’t really point to any specific complaints either. The main flavor is the bergamot. The black tea is very much in the background. I accidentally ordered two one ounce bags of this in my huge order, and I don’t think that will be a big problem. I tried this another day with some lavender tea mixed in and made into a latte. Now that really kicked it up a notch. Now I add lavender every time, and it’s been great.

The color of this tea is the darkest, most beautiful blue. The flavor is mostly butterfly pea flower and chamomile. The bitter/weird taste of the flower is pretty difficult to cover up, and this blend definitely doesn’t have enough strong flavors to overpower it. This would probably be good if the fruit flavor were turned up a ton. As it is, I can’t really taste the fruit at all. In subsequent brews, the chamomile was the clearest flavor with the butterfly pea flower not tasting too bad, so maybe a shorter brew is key. But I never get any fruit from this blend.

The main flavor is the slightly astringent black tea with a bit of apple and a bit of cinnamon. I wish the flavors were stronger. As it is, it’s an okay tea, but not fantastic. Maybe if it had a caramel element it would be more enjoyable. I just wanted more flavor.

This smells so rich and chocolatey that I had to grab a sample from the tea box. The flavor is so malty and thick. I’m really enjoying it. This is my kind of black tea. I added some milk, but it’s also good without. It’s like dessert in a cup.

Red velvet is definitely a difficult flavor to accomplish in a tea. There’s a tartness from the fruit and a bit of chocolate in the background. It doesn’t mesh into something super delicious, but with milk, it tastes decent. The second steep is very similar to the first. Yeah there’s nothing super special here. I’d prefer more chocolate and less fruit.

I’ve had a mushroom tea from Rishi that I actually liked a lot, so I decided to grab this tea in my last DT order. Unfortunately, this one has a super strong, strange bitter/tangy flavor that I really dislike. Since I haven’t noticed it in DT’s other chocolate tea, I guess that comes from the mushrooms. It’s too bad because I love mushrooms in general (recently ordered 12 pounds of them from the store!) but I must not like the variety they’re using here. Or maybe it’s the way the mushrooms are preserved. Not sure.