448 Tasting Notes
This was one of my samples from Design a Tea. It came in a small tea bag. I think there may not have been quite enough, because the flavor I got was quite weak. I definitely could taste a bit of the chocolate but I didn’t get much rose taste. I think this tea could be quite yummy, but I would like to give it a proper try before I buy a whole bag.
I steeped this for 5 minutes and got a really weak flavor. Definitely going to use more next time. What little flavor I could taste was yummy however. I’ve yet to be disappointed with DAVIDsTEA( I have only had about three though lol).
When I was steeping this, some scents in the leaves blended together to make a slight (sorry for being gross!) vomity smell. It’s not there in the dry leaves, nor in the tea itself. I’m not sure what it is, but it seems to be a mixture of something that just doesn’t mesh well together. It definitely doesn’t taste this way! Has anyone else smelt this or am I just weird?
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First, I want to think Design A Tea for their wonderful customer service and generous samples!
WOW! This tea is delicious. It smells good all throughout and tastes wonderful. They’ve somehow managed to make it feel like I’m actually eating marzipan as I drink this. This is the first marzipan tea I’ve had and I’m really happy it went well. I plan on buying more of this!
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I just got more tea in today! I’m kinda overwhelmed now. I definitely wasn’t expecting it all at once! If anybody wants to try any of my teas, please let me know and I would be more than happy to send you a sample.
This tea smells like some kind of soda in the bag. I made it to hopefully help me through the Genetics and Evolution test I have to take in an hour. I didn’t get much of the grenadine or vanilla flavor, mostly just the tea itself. I’ll have to try this in different ways and see what works best.
Today my shipments from 52teas, Tropical Tea Co., AND Amanda came in. I wasn’t expecting them all at the same time! I was a bit overwhelmed. However, the smell of this one really drew me in. It’s very sweet in the bag, almost too sweet. I tried this first at about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Very bitter! So I tried again with 2 minutes this time. It’s a bit too weak, though the flavor comes out a bit more as it cools. Somewhere between these two times will be the perfect steeping time. I will find it! This tea smells so delicious, I want to find that in the flavor as well.
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I spilled some of this tea on my laptop and now the right click button isn’t working :(
:( oh no! Well I love this one iced personally.
I think my laptop just needs to dry for a bit.
I’ll definitely have to try that! Especially with the Texas 100 degree summer looming in front of me!
Try steeping it at a lower temperature. I find that the black tea from 52Teas works better with a temperature of about 200°F for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes.
Ok! I’d been having trouble with the Pancake Breakfast as well. I’m just so used to black teas being happy with around boiling temperature water.
Made another cup of this yesterday. I still couldn’t get the bitter taste out, but it was better. I decided to look up the Earl Grey Bravo that is the main part of this tea. Turns out, it’s not the cornflowers! Apparently a lot of people have been having trouble with the same problem, and it’s actually the bergamot. So, note to self, do not buy Earl Greys from Adagio. Luckily, this tea is still really good with milk and sweetener. I still have plenty of this left, though. So if anyone is interested in trying some, let me know!
Had this tonight to keep me going through lab and studying for my stats test. Go me! I still absolutely love this tea. I tried it with milk this time. It’s wonderful both ways and doesn’t need anything to sweeten it. I really love that this can do multiple steeps well, as well.
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I bought this this morning as a result of your yummy posts about it. I can’t wait to get it!
Great! If you like those chocolate oranges they sell at Christmas, you’ll love this. Also, next time, if there is anything I have that you want to try, you can just ask me before you go and buy it :)
Thanks! Same goes for me… check out my cupboard. I just received some Finnish versions of tea that I am seeing if Steepster has in their database…
Hmm so I just took a look, and the chocolate chamomile tea, the banana oolong, and any of the peppermint teas sound interesting( I’m kinda addicted to minty teas, I’m hoping there will be some in the traveling tea box lol). If you have enough of any of those, I would love to do a small sample exchange of pretty much anything in my cupboard.
Cool, My David’s Teas should be in this week and I would be more than happy to send some your way, as well as my minty teas. I am a minty gal too. I’ll noodle around your cupboard and come up with some stuff.
One of the samples from Design a Tea. I thought this would be an interesting blend, as I like both flavors. Perhaps they can go well together?
The dry smell is mainly peppermint. If I try, I can get something possibly vanilla-ish, but it’s mainly peppermint. It keeps pretty much the same smell all throughout steeping. At first, the flavor is ALL peppermint. While I’ve yet to meet a peppermint tea that I didn’t like, I was really wanting to get the two flavors together. Once it cools a bit, the Irish Creme seems to come out. I can’t taste it so much as it seems to be mellowing out the peppermint. I really wish the irish creme flavor would have made a strong appearance. While good for a peppermint tea, that’s not what I was looking for with this.
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I evidently missed the boat on the free samples, but yesterday I was very excited to discover Ovation Teas (ovationteas.com) has a stellar-looking custom tea creating thingy on their website. I could not resist trying it out! Though they don’t have irish creme flavoring, you might be able to send them an email and see!
Design a Tea still has the samples here http://designatea.com/freesamples.php if you’re looking for them. They seem really hit or miss, but I’ve heard the stuff they already have blended is pretty good.
Thanks for the info, I’ll definitely check it out tomorrow once I’m more awake!
This is one of the first bagged teas that I really liked, back when I had just started drinking tea. I hadn’t had any in a while, so I decided to have some to wake me up this morning. I steeped it at the 2 minutes that everyone says makes it taste wonderful. Turns out, I don’t like it at two minutes. To me, it just tastes like hot water that somebody thought about adding spice to. Normally, I leave it in for closer to 4 or 5 minutes, and the spice and orange flavor really comes out. It’s a great way for me to wake up in the morning. While this cup wasn’t wonderful, I’m normally very fond of Constant Comment
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I’ve never actually had Constant Comment, but always had Stash’s Orange Spice. I now buy MarketSpice from.. well… MarketSpice. It’s a very wonderful cinnamon orange tea, though I’ve read some reviews that it’s TOO-cinnamony. I like it though.
I’ve tried a good number of Stash teas and haven’t been very impressed with any of them. I’ve just given up on them. I may have to look into MarketSpice! I like my teas nice and spicy! And you should definitely give Constant Comment a try at least. The good thing about it for me is that my cafeteria has some teas, including Constant Comment, in a hidden corner, and nobody else drinks them, so they’re all mine!
I like Good Earth Original for the reason that it’s really spicy and in the Winter sometimes I want that! Also the decaf version tastes just like the non-decaf and you don’t need sugar in either because the spice is sweet.
I’d be willing to send you a sample! Although, there’s a tea that was recommended to me called Söderblandning from Sweden that I’m awaiting a shipment for. Might make sense to wait until that gets here, since if it blows MarketSpice away, I wouldn’t want to recommend the wrong one!
Sure! I’ll let you screen them for me :)
