37 Tasting Notes
Sipdown! Again, not bad but not my favorite. In other news my BFF is freaking out about how much tea I’m drinking at the moment. She’s worried it’ll keep me awake all night and that I’ll look tired in her wedding pictures tomorrow. She might be right, so I guess its time to make sure I stick to herbal and rooibos for the night.
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Sipdown! One of my old faithful favorites. I’m definitely going to be picking more of this up tomorrow, It’s one of the few that I always keep stocked. I’m a pu’erh fan, which is one of the reasons why I love this tea. The pu’erh comes through nice and strong, and I can definitely taste the oolong. The ginger and orange peel make for a nice combination. All in all a nice strong cup of tea, and one of my favorites.
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I love how lightly chocolatey this tea is. Seriously, when you smell it you think its going to be super super chocolatey but it isn’t -and I’m actually okay with that. There is a slightly bitter note to this, but bitter in the extremely expensive dark chocolate way. If that makes sense. It is a smooth tea, and (at least to me) tastes just slightly spicy. I’m not a huge fan of of extremely chocolatey teas -I’d rather just have a hot chocolate. But I love this one for just that reason. It doesn’t taste like a poor imitation of hot chocolate, it tastes like a nice tea with a smooth dark chocolate note and slightly (in a good way) bitter undertone.
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I’m finishing off the last of my stash of this today, and although I like it I’m not sad to see it go. I can definitely taste the rhubarb in this, its nice and tart. I can also taste sweet strawberry and apple in this cup, it balances out the tartness of the rhubarb nicely. Tart with sweet undertones, and it tastes amazing iced. Although I do love this tea, I think I’ve had much too much of it lately. I won’t re-buy it again for a while.
Also, I can say that this was a sipdown since I finished off the last of my stash of this right?
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I enjoyed this more then I thought I would, although probably not enough to repurchase. The rooibos base is a bit more woody then I was expecting, but it blended well with the cinnamon, clove, and orange spicing. It is a bit sweeter then I was expecting, although not necessarily in a bad way. Overall it was a good, enjoyable cup -and it definitely reminded me of winter. I think I might experiment with this one a little bit, I have a feeling that it would taste really good with some of my creamed cinnamon honey from David’s Tea.
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This blend sounds absolutely wonderful.
It is! I definitely recommend trying it if you get a chance :)
I can’t afford ordering anything at the moment – jobless, too mentally and physically unwell at the moment to find work, and broke. :P But as soon as I get myself better and get income again, you better believe I’ll be ordering up some. :)
I can send some to you if you want? :) I have a nice little sample size of this one and a few of their other teas that I wouldn’t mind sending your way. PM me if you want the samples :)
Aww, that would be absolutely wonderful! I’ll send you a PM :) Thank you so, so much!
No problem!! :D
It won’t seem to let me send you a PM – I think we both need to be following eachother. :)
Oops! There, you should be able to now :)
Wonderful! You’re such a doll :) Thanks again!
This is definitely one of my favorites from David’s Tea, and today I decided to try it as a latte. And I am so glad I did. Basically it tasted like heaven in a cup. No joke. If you haven’t tried this as a latte yet then you are seriously missing out. (At least in my opinion)
This definitely wasn’t what I was imagining or craving when I decided to make this tonight. There is definitely cake in this cup, but I don’t really taste much of a coffee flavor. Is it possible for tea to taste greasy? If so, then this definitely tasted greasy to me. This one also tasted a lot like their Red Velvet Cake to me, and I wasn’t a huge fan of that one either.
I guess that means that my search for the perfect coffee cake flavored tea continues. Not that I mind having another excuse to go out and buy more tea ;)
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This smells exactly like Red Velvet Cake to me. I actually like Red Velvet Cake so I was excited by this blend but it has a strange taste. Also, I don’t know if teas can “taste” greasy but they definitely can be greasy/oily. I have had a tea that I actually brushed my teeth and used mouth wash right after trying because it felt like my mouth was coated in grease (sorry, I just realized how incredibly disgusting that is).
Coffee cakes don’t taste like coffee. This is just a cake flavored tea.
Yes, teas can have that greasy feeling to them. This is probably from the “natural and artificial cake flavouring” that is included in it.
VariaTEA, That is definitely how this tea felt to me. I did finish drinking it, but I had to rinse my mouth with mouthwash afterwards. (And no worries! It actually didn’t sound that disgusting to me… maybe I should be concerned that it didn;t? lol)
Brendan, Really? I’ve only ever had homemade coffee cake but it definitely tastes like coffee, I guess it must just be the recipe my family uses :) And that makes sense, I’m glad its not just in my head lol.
Pandeme – I want your recipe :)
Brendan, Definitely! I’ll get it the next time I’m at home and send it to you. You might need to remind me though lol.
Its only 11:30am and I’ve already had four cups of this. It might be time to slow it down with this one, but since I’m Maid of Honor at my BFF’s wedding this weekend I really can’t afford to be sick right now. So I guess I will continue to drink this like it is water (just joking…mostly) and try any and all home cold remedies that google can provide me with. Wish me luck! I think I’m going to need it.
