5272 Tasting Notes
I made a pot of this and yet again, my sister stole my cup. Luckily I was prepared with a potful to pour myself another. I love this tea! It is the perfect amount of vanilla and sweetness. Plus no flavor is too much so it is just a nice cup of tea.
Also this makes an amazing latte! When I tried to make one for myself, one of my friends stole it from me.
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I caved and ending up going into David’s Tea today. They didn’t have the fall ea on the 2/$5 promo (I was in the one in the Montreal Eaton’s Center)but that didn’t stop me from buying a bunch of different teas. Luckily thanks to you wonderful steepsters I learned you don’t need to buy 50 g, or even 25 g, if you just want to try out a tea so I got about 10 g of 4 different teas that I wanted to try (salted caramel, redberry tonic, vanilla ordchid, and love tea #7), 50 g of White Chocolate Frost and 100 g of Jessie’s Tea. I thought I was done buying tea to take home but I did want to try an iced latte and when I asked the salewoman what she recommended she said fantasy island. I ended up picking up 25 g of that too because they gave me the latte as the saleswoman was packing up my other teas and I quite enjoyed the taste. The coconut and milk combined well to provide a nice creaminess and the sweetness that can sometimes be too overpowering in teas with coconut was nicely cut by the raspberries and tea. All in all, I thought this made for a great first iced latte!
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Aimee Popovacki sent me some of this and I am so happy. When prepared as a latte this tastes like a Mexican Hot Chocolate. My sister who dislikes tea tried some and next thing I knew I had to make another cup because she stole mine. Thanks Aimee!!
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i like the cacao tea from herbal infusions..i haven’t tried david’s tea but it’s interesting!
I was actually looking at the herbal infusions cacao tea to see how they compare. I think this one but it can have a sort of powdery mouth feel at times
After having so many dessert teas recently, filled with chocolate and cakey flavors, I decided I wanted something a bit different. Enter my package from Aimee Popovacki and a bag of Santa’s Secret tea. It smelled great – minty but not overpoweringly so. This is what the tea tastes like – it is sweetened from the sprinkles while having a just the right about of mint. Thanks Aimee!!
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I was so excited to try this one so when my package from Roswell Strange arrived I ran to the kettle to get the water boiling. I was a little let down because I was expecting more of the s’mores flavor but I mostly just got black tea. Perhaps if I brew it in water that has cooled a bit it the flavors might come out more? Or perhaps my issue was I brewed it a little too long which I just noticed reading the info about the tea. One the plus side, the smell and aftertaste were distinctly marshmallow which was nice. I am glad there is more in the sample I got so that I can experiment with this tea. Thanks Roswell Strange!!
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I personally think this is best with a very short steep time. The longer you steep it, the more the black tea drowns out the other flavours.
I brewed it for 4 minutes because I made Santa’s Secret at the same time and didn’t pay as much attention to the brewing instructions as I should have. Luckily you fit enough into the tiny bag that I can have at least one or two more cups.
Finally made my Gingerbread Latte! I don’t even know why this popped into my head or why I have been thinking about it for days but I have finally made it and it is…okay. I think I prefer this as plain tea. The cakey flavor is brought out in the latte and I find it to be too overpowering. Well you live and you learn.
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Thank you to Sil for my sample of this matcha. I tried this both as a latte and plain and to be honest I was not as in love with it as I anticipated I would be. I think I am on the minority with this one but I did not really notice the caramel too much. I didn’t think it was bad just not the flavor I was expecting. However, I don’t think I blended the matcha too well because there was powder at the bottom of my cup so maybe that has something to do with it. I will finish up the sample but I don’t think I will be buying more of this flavor.
This is the first white tea from Kusmi that I have tried and I think it might be the last. This tea both dry and brewed smells just like passion fruit and I was hoping it would taste like it smells. Unfortunately that is not the case. I find the tea almost has a bitter chemical taste to it that is obviously not very appealing. Now I have 75g of this that is going into the swap box. Sorry Kusmi, but this one is just not very good.
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Well if you change your mind nxtdoor I can send some samples your way. For me this was a bust but there are others which have not been bad
And Dexter, check through my cupboard if you like and let me know what you would want samples of and I can probably send them your way.
This makes an amazing latte (aka a London Fog). I had some of my roommates and it was deliciously creamy with just the right amount of sweetness.
