79 Tasting Notes
I think I wasn’t right in my head when I picked this up. I’ll just get this out of the way immediately: I don’t like mint and chocolate together. Just nope. But a good friend of mine loves mint chocolate anything. I think I was swayed by her enthusiasm for mint chocolate, saw this, went “Hey! It smells decent!”, and made a crappy decision.
So uh. It definitely tastes like mint and chocolate. The rooibos isn’t medicinal. So yeah. If you like mint and chocolate, by all means, this is probably really nice. It’s not you, mint chocolate rooibos, it’s definitely me.
Who wants approximately 20 g of this?! I sure don’t. Said friend isn’t much of a tea drinker either. Bah. Mistakes were made.
I could drink a lot of this. And I probably will. Malty, slightly chocolatey, and no astringency to speak of. There’s a wet leaf-pile feel to it, which I mean in the best way.
I steeped it at a safe 4 minutes, so maybe if I had a bit longer… I don’t know. I had planned on trying more straight black teas, but I’m quite pleased with this one, so I’m going to show a level of self-control that I’m completely unfamiliar with, and stick with just keeping this around and not buy samples of every single straight black tea I can get my grubby hands on.
It sounds all good written down, but we’ll see how long that lasts!
I was hesitant about trying a pu’erh as soon as I saw people tossing around the word “fishy”. But it has coffee beans in it, so I had to give it a fair shake. I don’t know if it’s just a random chance of my sample, but this has way more coffee beans in it than my Espresso Yourself sample. In this case, I decided to break them up with a garlic press before steeping, which I might try with my Espresso Yourself just to give it another chance.
I quite liked this! I didn’t realize there was almond flavouring in it (yes yes, boo hiss artificial flavouring, I don’t care personally), which was a very pleasant surprise! It’s nutty, smooth, and coffee enough to scratch that itch of mine. To me, the almond makes it taste like someone spiked a very earthy coffee with just a touch of amaretto. Yum! I’ve put myself on a “no more tea until samples are gone” ultimatum, but once I’ve managed to wheedle my collection down, I’ll definitely snag some more of this!
Maple?! Tea?! I felt like there was no way I wouldn’t love this, so I got 50 grams. Note to self: Don’t do that.
So I suppose it is exactly what it’s supposed to be. It tastes like maple. It’s sweet. I just… didn’t care for it. Was too syrupy to me, left a weird “scrape my tongue off” feeling in my mouth after drinking it. I might’ve expected a bit much from it though, I don’t know. I’ll finish my 50g slowly, pass it around to whoever wants to try it. It just isn’t my thing, surprisingly considering I tend to like the sweet desserty teas.
Yum! I’ve always been a fan of matcha flavoured things, so trying to real deal was a no brainer. I haven’t had any real issues with preparation using the whisk, although sometimes I feel like I’m brutalizing the poor whisk. As for the matcha itself, it tastes smooth and, for lack of a better word, green. I really enjoy sipping this in the morning while I read articles/eat breakfast.
And speaking of breakfast, I actually mixed this in my yogurt this morning. Yum! It turned out pretty well, there were only a few small clumps, which really didn’t bother me anyway.
Nope! Nope nope nope! I smelt it, I cringed, thought “whew boy that’s pretty strong cherry” but figured I’d give it a fair shake. I steeped it, smelt it, and thought… okay. I can work with this. I was wrong. I was hoping for more floral in this, but it was just pure sweet cherry and I couldn’t finish it. Fortunately my mom loves this, so I’ll send it her way. If you like fruity teas, I’m sure this is fantastic, but I just can’t seem to get on board with fruity flavours.
Such a shame, the dry leaf looked so pretty that I was half in love with it for that reason alone.
I’ve had a sorry excuse for a cold the past couple days. Just a slight sore throat and tickle, enough to be annoying but not as bad as I’m accustomed to — I should be grateful I suppose! Anyway, I sniffed this and felt like if anything in my collection could help in that department, this smelt like The One. It’s very soothing on the throat I’m finding, and has that nice cooling mint to it. Honestly I can’t pick apart flavours very well, but it’s a nice mellow spicy taste. My throat feels a bit better, I can’t say for sure if just any tea would’ve felt good regardless, but still.
… I couldn’t really see myself grabbing this on any old day, but for a sick day it’s a nice soothing cup, so I might keep a little pouch of this around.
Tried this again today. Steeped for only two minutes based on what some other reviews have said. Still really not feeling this. It’s nice, but I like my other chais more and would rarely pick this over them. The cinnamon in it is nice though, I’ll give it that!
All in all, it isn’t bad, it’s just not for me.
