10238 Tasting Notes
Another tea from #SeptemberSipdown!
This time the prompt was a favourite “fruity tea or tisane” and while I have many teas that fit into this bucket I chose to highlight this one because it’s one of the only teas I own in a substantial quantity, and with the change of season I’ve been drinking it a lot lately as well. It’s like apple silk – so smooth and creamy! The perfect marriage of golden apples and thick cream/vanilla.
My answer would definitely change frequently depending on the day/season though.
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One of my favourites, as y’all know. This was a good mug. As people on the FB page have noted, this is in a recent sampler… So… Infer from that what you will…
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I had this in a meeting the other day because someone had made a large pot of it, and it was a nice cup but not really noteworthy – mostly I just wanted to log that I’d had it and it steeped out very smoothly as a less measured/monitored teapot brew. However, then I was slammed with 404 Errors on this tea page for about a week and logging it became more a matter of stubbornness that actual desire to capture the tea.
So there. Logged.
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
Cold Brew!
Happy to see I’m able to do some reviews tonight – yesterday was just an onslaught of 404 Errors but even before that I had been “locked out” of the tea page for this tea for almost a week…
This was the tea I made for the first prompt for #SipdownSeptember – which was to showcase your favourite way to brew tea. I think I surprised a lot of people by saying my favourite brew method is cold brew, but as most people here on Steepster know I’ve had a daily cold brew (or two) for basically five straight years now. I will cold brew just about everything, including teas like Pumpkin Chai that seem at first thought like they shouldn’t work…
What I like most about Pumpkin Chai as a cold brew is that the notes that are brought forward are the earthy and sweet pumpkin and carrot, with less attention to the spices. Just like what I want in a pumpkin tea – more pumpkin, less spice!
Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmGzzuge1V/
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
I’m glad that I went back to drinking this as a hot brew because the mug that I made myself while working from home on Tuesday was the perfect balance of savory sage with a pleasant earthy citrus undertone and sweet blackberry notes in the vein of a blackberry compote or syrup. It’s a unique combo, and the umami of the sage really prevents this blackberry from being cloying/too candy like.
I’ve tried most of Adagio’s teas at this point, so I haven’t made an order in a while, but this is one I’m really looking forward to trying, probably next year when they’ve added a few more teas to their lineup.
It ended up being a surprise favourit, since I don’t usually love their oolong teas.
This is the 2019 batch of this tea – though since I did the W2T Club box for this year’s “Lapsang Month” I now have a sample of the 2020 version too..
This was probably the most popular of last year’s Lapsang selections and, in fact, this year’s batch has also already sold out before any of the other LS brought in. People just adore this one, and I can totally understand why. I’ve been careful to stretch out my ounce of it, in the hopes it would come back this year. It’s an amazing tea with brandied red fruit notes, carmelized sweet potato, sweet pine sap resin, ripe plum, and cherries. Truly unique and one of the best unsmoked Lapsang that I’ve ever had!
Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4tLnDAXXa/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpgz3uQ58U&ab_channel=InterpolVEVO
Sipped on this on Monday for both my #MatchaMonday and #SeptemberSipdown teas; the prompt for the latter being “a discontinued tea”. I hesistated to use this for the day though because it was a seasonal tea and seasonal teas, by nature, are only around for a season. Same as how “limited edition” teas will only be around for a short period of time…
So yeah, those teas aren’t exactly readily available but a discontinued tea in my mind is something that was readily available but now isn’t. The semantics of the wording is something that drives me crazy when I see people complain that DT “discontinues all of their favourites”. It’s bugged me even before I was a DT employee. It’s a fair critique if the teas you’re listing are teas that were “core” teas but if your list is all compiled up of teas that were only seasonal/limited edition then they weren’t really “discontinued”. In fact they were advertised as only around temporarily…
Ah, isn’t language fun!?
Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/CE1lv0ng6Kt/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJzjM9iF-0
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
Flavors: Candy, Lemon, Lemon Zest, Sour, Sweet, Tart
Can we get the insider info on the “Last Chance” designation on Kashmiri Chai and Coffee Pu’erh? Are they discontinued or a seasonal change. I just panic bought 4oz of each, but if they aren’t coming back I might have to up those amounts!
Sadly, both are being discontinued. “Last Chance” is a bit of a weird designator IMO because it’s basically our way of saying “We’re about to run out of stock of this and it’s not going to get restocked any time soon”. However, that includes a mix of core teas which have been retired/discontinued, seasonal teas (ex. Pumpkin Chai which comes back every year), as well as limited edition teas which were only around temporarily anyway.
Aw, that is sad. Thanks for the clarification! Tea hoarding mode on! Luckily I think both those teas will store well for long periods.
Had this one earlier in the week as an evening tea and found myself thinking of Della Terra’s Orange Brulee (or whatever the blend was called) as I sipped on it. Similar slightly pithy/rind tasting orange notes mixed with caramelized sugar flavours – really pleasant, and strikingly nostalgic!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
Iced Tea Sipdown (1076)!
I kept my steep time a little bit shorter for this iced tea and the result was a smoother infusion with dark, full bodied and round coffee/espresso notes and less of that almost sourness to the roast that I got in some earlier cup of this. Not really a “sweet” coffee flavour either, but sweeter than it’s been in the past. Easy sipping!
From today’s #SeptemberSipdown prompt – cold brew a tea in milk!
I brewed this one in cashew milk because that’s all I had on hand and it was pretty good! I like tea cold brewed in milk, and chocolate based teas are one of the best because in a way you’re just making fancier chocolate milk. That’s what this tasted like – really lovely and classy chocolate milk with a dash of delightfully creamy rose!
