Della Terra Teas

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I’ve been drinking this a whole lot more lately. I don’t know why, but I’ve totally been craving that creamy lemon flavor this tea has! It’s just soo good!
Kinda nervous about the whole DTT “closing”, they just kinda seem sketchy about the whole deal. :S But they were selling off some of their stock the other day and I got to buy 4oz of this tea, for like 14 bucks! :O
I don’t know why on earth I didn’t stock up on this one during the BF/CM sales! I stocked up on literally everything else, EXCEPT this tea. I’m an idiot…
But Super stoked I had the opportunity to get more!

Had this one earlier tonight…Holy Shanghai. It’s just so so good. I love how the creaminess balances out the sour lemon taste.
UGHHHH
I just love this tea soo much! :D Glad I have so much of it in my collection. DTT better not ever go out of business!

Every time I have this tea, I remember how amazing it is. For some reason in my head I keep thinking it’s gonna be a really sour lemon that I really really gotta be in the mood for. But it keeps surprising me and making me realize how amazing it is. It’s such a creamy and smooth lemon. It’s actually pretty amazing-and I wish my brain would stop lying to me! It’s annoying! ><

Why don’t I drink this more often? Part of me was thinking that it was kinda a sour lemon…I have no idea why.
I’ve been craving this for the last few days and was all hesitant about drinking it again. But my memory served me wrong! SO WRONG!
It’s not sour at all!
It’s creamy and smooth. Delicious lemony goodness. Dessert in a cup! ^^

I wasn’t sure I’d like this tea when I first saw it on DTT’s website, but the more I drink it, the more it grows on me ^^
It’s not sour at all, it’s so creamy and smooth. The perfect lemon tea! (:

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A very dry lime flavoring going on, but I’m not getting any pie. Just tastes like dry lime and black tea. I did the shorter steep, but it is quite dry from the black base. It’s okay if you like lime. I had high hopes, but I think making this iced would of been better.

This one definitely smells and tastes malty. Kinda reminds me of Whoppers to be honest. xD Tastes like whoppers in liquid form. Which is good for me. Tea doesn’t give me terrible heartburn like chocolate does! This tea is definitely a win!

I got a sample of this tea in my swap with Ost. It was one that I have no idea why I didn’t choose when I made my Della Terra order – I guess because I’m kind of wary of chocolate teas. The dry leaf is generic small black tea leaves mixed with mini chocolate chips and little pieces of marshmallow that look like they’re covered in graham cracker crumbs. It smells yummy – like sugary sweet marshmallows mixed with carob and a touch of graham cracker. I brewed a very heaping teaspoon for 4 minutes.

This is one of those teas that smells far better than it actually tastes. The aroma is all melty sweet marshmallows with just a touch of cocoa. I can also smell the black tea in the background. Sipping this, I taste the sweet marshmallow taste, but it comes nowhere close to the smell. It’s a more transparent marshmallow, closer almost to vanilla than actual marshmallows. I definitely get a bit of the cocoa flavor and it also shows up as an aftertaste. For some reason, I get a definite tang out of the black tea base and it’s not at all harmonious with the flavoring. Even using more tea than is recommended, this tea is a bit weak for my tastes. Not bad, but not great.

This is one strong vanilla tea. 0_0 Threw me off guard at first, but as I keep drinking it, I find myself enjoying it. (: Thanks, JennyFur! ^^

The other half of why I’ve not been around is because I have just been drinking the same old teas, well not really “old”. But I’ve been trying to sip down the ones I got last year-This one I went off and on with really liking. There was a few months there that it just tasted too woody, so I didn’t drink it much. But over the last month, having tried it again,it’s been a hit in my book! I’ve just been loving it-drinking it literally every day, sometimes a couple times within the day. Finished what was in my tin, then opened up my last bag of this delicious tea and put it in the tea.
I really do hope that they re-open. :( This tea is just so delicious.
I really was wondering if I was gonna have to sell it a few months ago since it tasted woody. But glad that I’ve caught up to that tea now since I’ve finished every little bit of tea that I had opened last year. So Hopefully I’ll have more time to finish off this bag.

Definitely have been a lot more depressed lately, with a lot more family issues going on, and just health issues getting worse, and having to deal with frustrating doctors that are either giving up on me or just refusing to help me because of my age. It’s all just frustrating and depressing, to be honest. I definitely don’t drink as much tea as I used to. And in the past tea drinking has proven to keep my spirits up more and just help me with the whole having a better perspective on things. I really need to get back into it more! I have so much to try, and I do want to try it, it’s just the actually doing it is what’s hard. Because I have to move around a lot, well “a lot” when you’re in a crap load of pain :/ So yeah…Anyway…
I’m trying to get back into drinking tea more-I really need it for my emotional/mental sanity!

So the last couple times I had this tea it didn’t taste that great for some reason-it was the same with DavidsTea’s Birthday Cake too. Like around the same time. Don’t know if it was a med I was on or what but it tasted like just wood, water, and sugar. Lots of sugar. xD
But this week I’ve given this one another try since I got this one sometime last summer, so it’s one of my oldest teas that I must sip down!
Think I got about maybe 3oz or so left?
I’ve drank this one a couple times over the weekend and then again today-and holy shanghai! That’s the Red Velvet Delight I remember! :D :D Super stoked that it tastes right again! This has been a favorite and I’d have hated to waste it :(
Anywho!
So freakin’ good. If Della Terra Teas for sure re-opens and this tea is available, hopefully they’ve not changed it-because like I said in another tasting note-trying to find other teas that are just as good as the ones from DT because I keep getting crappy CS. Sooo I need replacements xD
Anywho! This one will do for now! Kinda curious to try Birthday Cake now though since this one tastes like I remember, maybe Birthday Cake will too?
But then they’ll just suck me back in..oy.
Anywho! Fantastic Tea! :D

So this one of the first teas I fell in love with which wasn’t from Teavana. Don’t drink it as much as I used to, but decided to drink it today. It was still enjoyable. But the rooibos is so much more apparent to me than before. It’s still really sweet and syrup-y, but compared to like DavidsTea’s Birthday Cake it’s just not as good. I will still enjoy finishing this one off, just won’t be a repurchase. Nice for this morning though!

Mmmm (: I’m on a DTT kick today. Freakin’ love their teas. No sugar needed. ^^

So until I really looked close at this tea, and then verified on here, I would not have expected it to have coconut in it. I don’t know what coconut has to do with almond biscotti, but it’s there. Steeped, it’s definitely coconut to me, much more so than almond for sure.

Unfortunately, this tea just isn’t for me.

Got this in a swap from Cameron B

I am so disappointed in this tea. :c It had my hopes up. It made me excited. But it just didn’t … have much of a taste.
The smell… omg the smell was amazing. PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE IN THIS BAG!
but when I brewed it, it didn’t come through. The flavor was there, but it was SO VAGUE that I couldn’t really make much of it. :c

I realized this tea has just made me want to make a real pineapple upside down cake. I guess that’s how I’ll get that flavor because it’s not in this cup. :c

Such a shame… I would totally have bought some of this if it’d help up to my expectations.

Drank yesterday. Site was being weird.

Initially all I tasted of this tea was the woodsy rooibos taste. Which doesn’t bother me too much like it does with some people. But I’d be disappointed if that was all I could taste for the entire cup.
My uncertainty was calmed as I took another sip. There it is! That creamy, vanilla flavor I was looking for! (:
It’s not too strong, but just enough to make it a good cup of tea. I’ll have to buy this when It’s available next! Also, from the picture on Steepster, it looks like a cute tea with the little bugs and bats in it too! _

Definitely caramel-y. But nothing really remarkable. Wouldn’t buy this tea. But thanks for the sample, Lariel! (: Now I’ll save my money!

This is the sample that was included with my recent Della Terra order. First off, mine looks nothing like the picture. There aren’t any flower petals or sugar pearls. It looks like dark tea leaves (puerh looks very similar to black to me) with some little brown dried fruit bits and one giant piece of freeze-dried strawberry. I broke the strawberry apart and mixed it in. There are also a few small cubes of some fruit – could be pineapple. The dry tea smells very fruity. It has a very tart strawberry mixed with some other fruit that could be pineapple or peach. I also get a little bit of vanilla and some mustiness in the back. I’ve never had a puerh before so this could be interesting. I steeped it for 4 minutes.

The brewed tea smells like musty earth and wood with a little vanilla and maybe a tiny hint of strawberry in the back. I drank the first half of the cup unsweetened and I found it very odd, though not unpleasant. There is a distinct taste of ash and musty earth and wood. I don’t really get any vanilla but I do get a little taste of fruitiness in the background. I added a little bit of sugar (half teaspoon maybe) and it definitely brought out the fruit and the vanilla a bit more.

I assume that earthy and woody taste is typical of a puerh just from reading about others’ experiences with them on here. I was just happy that I didn’t get any fishiness in the smell or taste! I realize this is most likely not super-fantastic puerh considering Della Terra is known for their dessert and flavored teas and not their tea base. I would definitely be open to trying puerh again though! :)

Cinnamon and sugar easily come through at all corners of this tea, but the gooey oatmeal requires care to coax it out. When I made the first cup I could actually fool myself into believing I was eating a raisin oatmeal cookie, whereas my subsequent sessions tasted a little on the burnt side.

Today I didn’t quite achieve the full glory of the oatmeal cookie. However, oatmeal does pop up a little in the finish and aftertaste so I didn’t completely mess it up. A little bit of cookie is better than no cookie.

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Had this one last night! Whenever I open my tin of this I’m hit by the magical aroma of caramel and marshmallows!
Took it in a traveling mug while I was out and about, and seemed to be okay, which is good! But I’d rather enjoy it more in a mug at home.
Still a wonderful tea though! Will enjoy drinking this more and more! This and Winter Nogg!

Finishing off the last of the sample that JennyFur so graciously gave me. It’s become one of my favorite teas. It’s at least one of the cutest teas I’ve ever seen with all the little sprinkles and marshmallows. Next time this tea is available I’m stocking up!
It’s just like creamy caramel and marshmallow in a cup.
I cannot wait till this is available again!

Marshmallows? Caramel? Vanilla? This tea is freakin’ glorious!
I hope it will be available again sometime. I’d love to buy it. Seriously though, DTT is one of the best places for dessert teas. They know how to do it right.
Thanks, JennyFur for this wonderful sample!

Sipdown!

This is definitely my favorite of the Della Terra teas I ordered a few weeks ago. A few of the others had really artificial flavors, which were okay for the first try, but after that I found they made me a bit nauseous. This one does have flavoring, but I actually enjoy it. The blueberry is more of a blueberry jam flavor than fresh. The cream is kind of vanilla-ish and it’s definitely stronger than the blueberry, which is okay, but I would prefer if the blueberry were stronger. It’s not overly rooibosy, and I don’t taste the black tea at all.

Overall, a relatively good dessert tea but not a very good blueberry tea, which is what I’m looking for.

This is actually my third tea of the day. I also drank the second half of my S’mores sample from Ost and then a second steeping of Golden Orchid (I had the first steeping last night, I shared it with my boyfriend, who isn’t a tea drinker but he was excited at the notion of chocolate tea). So I brewed this up for four minutes. I usually do 3, but I knew I would add milk so I figured a bit stronger would be good. I then added some sweetened condensed milk (oh boychik…). It was still too hot to drink so I went downstairs to check the mail, hopeful that I would have some new samples to try. Well, no samples, but I did get my July issue of Bon Appetit! I love food magazines!

Needless to say, this tea is delicious with the condensed milk. It’s amazingly creamy and delicious but I can still taste a lot of blueberry. It’s like blueberries swimming in sweetened cream! Yum! If anyone reading this has a suggestion for a really good blueberry tea, I would love to hear it! I love blueberry.