89 Tasting Notes
Mango and chilli. Didn’t expect to like this one, but surprise! It’s love. I expected something sweet with a hint of spice, but instead, I’m getting a whole bunch of heat with a mere hint of mango. This probably has something to do with steeping time, and the fact that I often will sit, staring at my infuser, thinking “More! Moooore! Must be stroooooooongerrrrrr!!”. I’ve heard that spices trigger your pain receptors, and pain stimulates your endorphins, so maybe there’s something to that here. Or maybe I’m just a masochist. Either way, yum.
Luscious. What a great word, and very appropriately used here. I got this one in the Summer 2012 collection. Tastes like watermelon juice. Super refreshing. I’ve only ever had it iced and wouldn’t dare try it hot, but if hot fruit floats your boat, well, the heart wants what it wants.
Ooh la la. Valentine’s Day in a cup, this one is. Chocolatey & fruity & even a little flowery tasting. I’m pretty sure that, when I drink this one, little animated hearts shoot out of my eyeballs, like that cat in the Pepe Le Pew cartoons. Or a manga girl. Anyway. Good stuff!
I hate to say it, because this tea was created for such a good cause, but… I just can’t with this one. Not even for charity. You know when you haven’t eaten in awhile, and you can sort of taste your own stomach acid? This tea tastes like that to me. My original notes on this one, back from the first time I ever tried it, say: “Satan serves this tea in hell”. For that reason, I’m scared to ever try it again. I want to love it! I want to love it for charity! I need to learn to make friends with hibiscus in my tea, I think. If you’re a hibiscus fan, then drink up and feel good about yourself for all the good that you’re doing in the world by enjoying this cuppa, but until I acquire the taste myself, I’ll just be over in this corner, reviling this tea (but feeling appropriately guilty for it, I swear!).
Fatty says: NOT SWEET ENOUGH! This is a rooibos with coconut, pineapple, and jellybeans. Cute, and I dig the novelty factor, but all things considered, I find it rather bland. I sweeten almost all of my tea anyway, so the jellybeans are just kind of superfluous for me. I’d rather consume my sugar as sugar, and not in bean form. Meh.
This one needed time to grow on me. The first time I tried it, I thought it tasted like perfume and wrote it off with a snarky, “Jessie can keep it”. But then a mysterious thing happened… I found myself craving the weird, coconut-y lavender flavour of this tea. Like all the time. So I bought a big tin of it, and then it was pretty much the only thing I drank for a solid month, and now I love it. I think Jessie’s Tea and I have a lot in common. We’re both a bit peculiar and may take some time to warm up to. We were bound to hit it off in the end.
My favourite of the 3 cake inspired teas (the other 2 being Birthday Cake & Chocolate Cake) that came out around the Spring of 2012. It’s decidedly the sweetest of the 3, but not tooth-achingly so (but I’m a fatty and I like pie, so your mileage on that may vary). Rather similar to Birthday Cake, but this one has caffeine where Birthday Cake does not. Alas, as I am sensitive to caffeine.
Tried this with the Valentine’s Day collection that came out for 2012. It’s meant to taste kind of like cinnamon hearts, I guess… but if I wanted cinnamon hearts, I’d just eat cinnamon hearts. The spice in this one tastes very synthetic for some reason. This one’s not for me.
