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Doesn’t taste at all like pumpkin, but maybe it’s not intended to? The description mentions only ‘pumpkin pie spice.’ I’m not getting a lot of spice either, but there’s kind of a warm earthiness to the flavor that probably wouldn’t come from just tea alone. As the golden monkey base can easily stand on its own, I guess it doesn’t matter that this comes across as an unflavored tea.

This is the last of the Forever Nuts :( I will definitely be re-ordering. I’ve just got to have a few tisanes to balance out all these black teas, and this one is maybe my favorite tisane of all, though Midsummer Night’s Dream and Goji Pop are stiff competition.

So drinking Wonderland tea has been on my bucket list for a while. Mainly because having a tea bag with a little tag on it that says “Drink Me” is the sort of meta thing that a book nerd like myself just can’t resist. I wasn’t expecting anything extraordinary from the tea itself, so I wasn’t disappointed to find that this is pretty standard fair. The pomegranate is recognizable, albeit a bit weak, the base is ok. But the tea tag is so cute! There’s even a little picture of Alice on the other side sipping tea :)

Still working through my vanilla tea quest. On the plus side, the vanilla is present in this, so that’s something. But it’s an alcohol-type vanilla, and there’s nothing else in the tea to give it any complexity. The bag is full of chopped up vanilla bean pod, so I was expecting something a little more natural, but it’s not bad.

This tastes like those grape Nerd candies! Well, it’s not unpleasant, but I’m glad I got to try a sample of this instead of accidentally buying a whole tin of candy tea.

Smells amazing. Tastes like blueberry cake and maple syrup, which is a far better combination than I would imagine. I’m kind of happy and sad to discover this awesome tea, because it looks like Della Terra Teas went out of business? Their site won’t come up and their latest tweets are from 2 years ago. Does anyone know what happened to them?

Last of the sample. This tea smells like straight-up soap, but fortunately this doesn’t come through in the flavor. It’s a lightly spicy tea, and it vaguely reminds me of some of the flavor notes I’ve encountered in Indian cuisine, though here those notes are too weak for me to recognize anything distinctly. I’m not getting any mango.

Well, the name is pretty accurate, it tastes like blueberry jam. The flavor and base seemed a bit on the weak side, so note to self to use a little more tea next time. While I don’t think I’d go out of my way to get this, there’s nothing unpleasant about it either, I think it just comes down to how much of a blueberry jam fan you are.

Many thanks to Ost for this! I’ve been curious about this one for awhile, almond and coconut sound like such a great combination :) The coconut here tastes very natural and nutty; the almond tastes like almond extract, but it is well-balanced here, so it’s not the major problem it was in, say, David’s Sweet Almond Green. While the base tea stays in the background, it is a nice smooth background and works well with the added flavors.

I’ve tried several teas that were advertised as almond cookie teas, but this one come the closest by far to actually tasting like an almond cookie. I’m a fan :)

Many thanks to the wonderful and generous Ost! I was lucky enough to pick up some things from her awesome stash sale, and today the box arrived. I’m so excited to try all these new teas!

First up, Mrs. Patmore’s Pudding. Somehow I got it in my head that this was a fruity tea, but that is not the case. I guess if the pudding in question is vanilla or butterscotch pudding, this could be a pudding tea. The flavors are pretty mellow and kind of difficult to pick out. It would be nice if the vanilla and caramel notes were a bit stronger, but the tea does have this amazing creamy smoothness going for it, so overall, I’m really liking it. Good to have a few bagged teas on hand too, so I can steep on the road :)