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The fruity plum flavour is definitely very nice and yummy! However, the green tea itself is a bit bland, I wish the mix of flavours would come out richer.

I don’t think I can review this properly until I’ve tried a few different matcha teas, and played with brewing it a bit more because I’m very new to this! I kept a whisk in the mug and kept stirring it! I added a little bit of honey! I don’t know what’s going on!

But I know that I like it.

Honestly, after reading the above tea reviews I was reallly, really, surprised.
This herbal tea, is a mixture of different nuts, like almonds and thrown in is apple and beetroot (which gives it the adorable pink colour)
This tea definitely need sweetener or it’s bland. The sweetener, (I use agave, just a little squirt not too much). And, it’s absolutely delicious!
You can drink this anytime of the day and my boyfriend who actually really doesn’t love tea, fell in love with this tooo!
Highly recommend this tea :) mmmm

1 heaping TB for 500mL water, no milk or sweetener.

Rough time waking up this morning. My yerba mate tisance disappointed, and the caffeine monkey on my back started to jabber. So, a little pot of English Breakfast standing by, but first: this strange hybrid elixir.

If you’re in the mood for straight black tea, don’t drink this.

If you need a good smack upside the head and feel bold, drink this.

This morning’s brew is chewy, sweet, smooth, dark and mysterious, and just a tiny bit chicory-bitter on the aftertaste. The coffee beans feed my caffeine monkey, and the China black tea smooths everything out. I still need a good hit of Assam, but that wll follow.

As I’ve said before, a strange fusion drink, hardly a regular or go-to for me, but always satisfying.

Got this as a sample with an order …

I steeped it 4 min 30 seconds. It’s got a richness and a sweet coffee & chocolate-ish flavour, but it ain’t coffee.

Ain’t tea, either.

Like David’s Coffee Pu-Erh, a really intersting fusion.

Not sure if a sipper who does not already like coffee would like this coffee-laced tea. But it’s good. Better with every sip.

Sweet, a bit chocolate-y, a bit marzipan-ish. Tastes a bit like flavoured coffee smells. I don’t taste either coffee or tea, but something delicious. It gets better with each sip.

I had fairly decent hopes for this tea. Expecting something more along the lines of a “banana nut bread” flavor (as the title says), it seemed to turn out to be a sweet “banana tea” instead. I hardly tasted any of the nuts or dried fruits as I had hoped.
[EDIT] Rating has been bumped up. As suggested in the comments, I steeped the tea longer (7 mins at least), and found the extra time allowed the nuts and dried fruits to intermingle with the banana flavor resulting in a more enjoyable tea.

I was initially given a sample of this tea, and immediately bought it after tasting it! I hate fruit teas, but love black tea! This one has that lovely depth of black tea, the refreshing hint from the peach, and a slight zing at the end from the ginger. When I pull an all-nighter, I turn to this tea rather than anything else (soda included) to keep me up, it seems to work the best!

The flavor of this tea seems very mild. It seems to be missing that distinct “this is definitely orange pekoe” flavor and depth (particularly in the after-taste). However, I grew up drinking this tea from tea bags, so I could be wrong. But, if you’re looking for a mellow, organic version of orange pekoe, this might be for you!

I love this tea as a dessert tea. As everyone thus far has said, it is a very smooth almost “buttery” tea (the longer you steep it, the more apparent that flavor is). I find it to be a heavier tea, so I enjoy it in a smaller cup to finish off a meal :) Definitely a favorite, I will buy it again.

This has become my standard Oolong.
Whenever I feel like having a good cup of rich, floral Oolong, delicate yet full, the Quangzhou Milk Oolong never disappoints. I tried a few Milk Oolongs from different stores, and I honestly couldn’t see a big difference; each of them was just as good. This one is no exception. Certainly a classic I’ll keep coming back to for my whole life.

1.5 tsp for 300mL water @98C, steeped four minutes.

Much better than I remember. I can taste tea, spices, and pumpkin. Lovely.

I ordered this in a 50g pack, which I’ve not come close to finishing, and have since received several free samples of it. I want to like it more than I do, but I find all I taste is sugar and a dull China black tea. Am I not brewing it strong enough? I don’t taste anything pumpkin pie-ish, either, just more sweetness. It tastes — to me — almost as though the tea has been much stronger and assertive but eventually got whittled down by committee until it became inoffensive. No spice kick, either. A calm and gentle chai, just not to my taste.

I dunno about skinny-ness from drinking this or any other tea, but something did counteract my last pigout. Maybe this tea. Maybe not.

It’s sharp with the ginger and ginseng. Quite hot with the ginger if you steep it over 3 minutes. The pu-ehr itself is almost lost until the gentle aftertaste.

Overall, I really like it once I start drinking it, but it’s not a go-to tea. Given my jeans size, perhaps it should be. ;) This one is like Earl Grey for me: I have to be in the mood for it, but when I am, nothing else will do.

Time for an afternoon treat!
This tea smells like the Jelly Belly brand buttered popcorn jellybeans (which I LOVE), and doesn’t really require much sugar or milk. I put in too much milk today, but whatevs, eh?
The butteriness is almost like a feeling in your mouth as much as it is a smell, but it isn’t so much a taste.
I can’t discern coconut at all, but it’s probably hiding with some other flavour, all coy and sneaky.
I can totally see dumping some Captain Morgan Special Reserve in here, but not while I’m working. That’s for later.

It’s delicious, and absolutely buttery.
The coconut is more for your nose than your mouth.
It’s hard to think of it as a tea.
It tastes like something you’d drink on New Years Morning after a night of not going out and getting wrecked or partying with friends. Just a nice night in with your loved ones and in bed at a reasonable hour.
And then New Years Morning, all fresh and cold and full of half-baked resolutions that you know you won’t keep, you get out of bed (a little easier than on any other day), go to the kitchen, make yourself a cup of Buttered Rum tea (with the recommended milk and brown sugar, but not the splash of rum), and sit and enjoy the quiet of the morning before anybody else wakes up. Maybe you read an old issue of Martha Stewart Living or Real Simple. Maybe you flip through a cook book.
Then you feel inspired and make chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast for everyone. And bacon.
But not Buttered Rum tea. That’s just for you.

Strange — but delicious. Wow. I dared myself to order this one, because my first reaction to the ad copy was ‘Blech! That sounds terrible!’ But it’s not. Deep, a bit sweet, almost heavy. No astringency. No maltiness (oh my, imagine coffee beans with Assam: hurl!). Just one delicious fusion, straight out of The Tempest: ‘Has suffered a sea-change into something rich and strange.’ Want to try this one with a bit of stevia later. Would probably stand up nicely to milk.

1 TB for 500mL water, no milk or sweetener.

I brewed the Pure Chai today expecting it to pack no heat; I really miss any spicekick i this blend, as I noted before.

So today I just expected a pleasant, slightly sweet cinnamon black tea.

And if that’s what you want, David’s Pure Chai is lovely. It’s an Indian black tea base, with CTC leaves I think (they’re very small_ and great big chunks of cinnamon sticks. plus whole cloves. Neither spice nor tea dominates.

I still want to try this simmered on the stovetop, perhaps with some ginger tea tossed in.

Today, I’ll settle for upping the rating.

Straight ahead cinnamon. Not much tea taste. I almost always add ginger tea to any chai I’m making, because the heat of the ginger fuses with the sugar/stevia to coax out more complexity from the tea, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Not sure how I feel about this one. Tame and calm and utterly inoffensive, as chai blends go. No real spice heat.

Sure smells like I should splash some Rum in there.
It’s tasty enough, but I’m left wanting. It’s more like sweet, hot water with some coconut flavour than anything else.
I think it boils down to me not being that much of a white tea fan.
Too desserty.
Not as manly and WAKE-UPy as I had wanted to accompany me while I work late into the night.