This tea is from the February ‘23 subscription. My feelings about this subscription are starting to be colored by having not gotten the January teas. Customer service didn’t help me with looking up if it had been sent or not, just referred me to tracking notification emails I never got. It makes me wonder if customer service has been farmed out to a third party who doesn’t have access to account info, just generic canned answers.
Anyways… it looks like this months teas are based off a chocolatier’s creations. The tea smelled lightly of caramel and strongly of sugary cereal, the kind that coats the roof of your mouth with a waxy substance. I’m glad to see it’s a green rooibos base. These subscriptions seem to be heavy on the rooibos. There is a light oil sheen on the surface of my tea. There wasn’t much there on the first sip. It was mostly in the finish that I got any caramel corn cereal hints. Sipping further gives me hints of banana, something I’ve never associated with corn before! The flavors are light and puzzling, but I feel like the whole thing is well balanced for being light and puzzling. It is very corn cereal like, which is strange for a tea. If I start sipping with more frequency there is almost a soapy taste to this cup on the sides of my tongue. I’m still unsure how to feel about this cup, but this is for sure a tea I would not order.
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Aww, and it sounds so interesting too. I would love to see a kids’ cereal-themed tea collection!
That would be really cool as long as it wasn’t cereal from my sugar free childhood! Otherwise we are looking at a really loud grape nuts tea, shredded wheat and granola!
Aww, and it sounds so interesting too. I would love to see a kids’ cereal-themed tea collection!
That would be really cool as long as it wasn’t cereal from my sugar free childhood! Otherwise we are looking at a really loud grape nuts tea, shredded wheat and granola!