David's Tea

The peach is there, but I couldn’t get past the imitation aftertaste. Bah!

Very prominent chocolate flavor in this tea, I don’t taste the “chili” part though. It just tastes like chocolate – which is a good flavor, yes, but not sure I love it in my chai. I wish there was more spice to this one. The sweetness of the chocolate would be enhanced with a spice.

So tasty!

Cold steeped this in the fridge a few days ago. This is really good cold! I still taste a bright fruit, peach or lychee like at the beginning of the sip. It then goes into a strong floral like rose, but with the bite that jasmine can get. The aftertaste has an immediate green bite, then fades into a floral. This reminds me a little of a Fauchon tea that I really liked iced in the summer. Not quite as well balanced, but a good close second. I bet this would be really good as a sweet tea or with a little cream!

Update: I just read that this has hibiscus in it! I’m super happy to say that I didn’t detect any at all!

Sample from an order! This smells really fruity. It reminds me of Lupicia’s Momoko peach. It has a similar bright fruity taste too and then the jasmine kicks in. The mix of jasmine and peach is really interesting. I can see this being a spectacular iced tea in the summer!

Clean, balanced…surprisingly good, not too vegetal imo. A nice choice from DT. Sip down!

Overpowering vanilla smell and taste.

Nice tea, may have steeped too long as it was a tad bitter on the end of the sip, but I was multitasking and cooking dinner, haha. Not overly sweet, but enough that I was able to drink it black. I typically lean towards sweeter teas, or herbal caffeine free teas, but this was a nice change. Just enough caffeine that as a law student I can drink a cup at night and power through my reading without being up for hours on end. Didn’t taste a lot of pumpkin, but I only had one cup, so may be different if I get a different combo of leaves. Overall, really pleasant, low caffeine option that I will be adding to my collection. Not something I would choose to drink everyday, but great, nonetheless.

Day… 18? of DavidsTea’s 24 Days of Tea 2017

I tried it black at first, and it was pretty bitter, but it wasn’t so bad when i added milk and sugar. I dunno, I don’t really drink much earl grey. I’d probably drink it again (with milk and sugar) if I was offered some, but i wouldn’t go out of my way for some more of this tea.

Delicious any time of year, especially love it in the fall and winter months. The pumpkin taste is not overwhelming and compliments the spiciness of the chai well. If you steep for longer and then add milk, it mellows out the pumpkin flavor and tastes fantastic. One of my favorites.

So delicate and floral! I love this tea. The floral delicateness of this tea is grounded by the peach.

Advent Calendar 2017, Day 21: Was on the bitter end of dark chocolate, a bit of a coffee type edge, but a nice chocolate flavor. I’m tempted to brew this strong with some milk.
About 1.5 tsp to 16 oz.

Day 21 DavidsTea 24 Days of Tea calendar – Hot Chocolate (pu’erh) I just wrote a more-verbose, in depth review, but it got eaten when I foolishly clicked on the “suggest a flavor?” link at bottom (will explain why in a sec). That button launched my gmail in this very same window, killing everything I had written. So, yeah, word of warning to all: do not click on that link until after you’ve saved your tasting note. Bad, Steepster, no biscuit. No need for that link to behave that way. Grrrr, fustrated now.

Didn’t help that I was already frustrated by this tea. It smelled very promising in the tin, but turned into a fakey, awful stevia bomb in the cup. In fact the flavour I was about to suggest was ‘stevia’ since it is a very specific flavour of sweetener that, when overused as DT sadly often does, ruins what could be otherwise perfectly good teas. (Note: I’m fine with stevia when it’s balanced, flavour-wise, in better blends than this one.)

Not sure why the decision was made to use stevia to sweeten this. I mean, there’s already chocolate in it, so why not just use sugar? It would still be far more diet-friendly than actual hot chocolate and it could have been a really tasty mug of tea. I powered through this, mostly b/c it was first thing in the morning when I drank it and I needed the caffeine to get my butt in gear. But, I will never drink it again. So it’s not totally unpalatable, just kind of inexcusable.

If you’re down with the stevia (and lots of it…) then you might love this. If you think stevia tends to taste artificial or just plain bad, this tea’s a solid pass.

This was less obnoxious than I usually find it.

The in-store sample I tried today was just not as clove-heavy as it usually seems to be, and that, for me, is a very good thing.

Advent Calendar 2017, Day 8: This is a lovely light tea, with just the right amount of jasmine.

Day 5 of David’s Tea’s 24 Days of Tea 2017

Day 8 DavidsTea 24 Days of Tea advent calendar – Buddha’s Blend. Once again DT has tricked me. In the jar and while steeping I got a really nice, strong fruity note from the scent, but in the cup that gets overpowered by the floral factor and winds up leaving me feeling let down. It does not help that my current daily AM wake-up tea is an super fantastic, in your face Peach-Apricot Ceylon (from Genuine Tea). I think this faltered a bit in inevitable comparison. But that’s a black tea, this is a white-green and is meant to be more delicate. However that just makes me wish all the more that they had gone easier on the florals. A light fruit note more or less on its own would have been much nicer, IMO, maybe with about 1/3 of the floral action going on here. BUT: I am not a floral person, outside of a few well-vetted hibiscus-y iced teas. I am just not this tea’s target market.

I will say that it was nice that it was not overly sweet, nor was the tea-ness of the tea masked by the various flavours in the mix. So I’ll give it that, it’s pretty well-balanced for what it is. But it still just is what it is.

For those of you who are into florals: you’re probably going to really like this one. For us anti-floral folk, however, it’s a pass. I will finish the mini pot I just brewed up, but afterwards that’s it for me and this tea.

This was the tea for yesterday from David’s the 24 Days of Tea. Strangely, it did nothing for me. I’ve had this one before a couple of years ago and I remember that I really liked it. Did David’s “update” this tea? It wasn’t horrible. But it was oddly flavorless. Of course, I am sick, so maybe that’s why. I still have more leaf in the little jar so I may make it again at the end of December and use more leaf. Honestly, I remember loving this one a couple of years ago!

This tea was warm and tingly in a good way. It was an amazing way to start the morning and being able to enjoy the sip. It did start out a bit bitter but nothing a dash of cream couldn’t fix.