145 Tasting Notes

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drank Chai Spice by The Tea Haus
145 tasting notes

I still love adding this to black teas! :) Super delicious.

Flavors: Cinnamon, Coriander, Ginger

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74

This tea smells more like peaches than mango to me? It smells like sweet peach candy, similar to David Tea’s buddha blend . However, I expected it to smell more like a juicy mango. As far as taste goes, it tastes like a green tea flavoured with peach flavouring. It is good, but not my favourite tea blend from the tea haus. I think I need to try this a few times before giving a true opinion on it.

Flavors: Fruity, Peach

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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72
drank Smokey Duke by The Tea Haus
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Smell: This smells quite good! :) It smells like vanilla, cream, floral, citrus, and also like chocolate? There is also a slight artificial tinge to it, but it is not offputting.

Taste: Ah! I feel like I should have steeped this for longer; oh well! The flavour when you add milk to it at least is rather mild. I taste a slight smokiness and the slight bergamot aftertaste. It also tastes slightly like vanilla or cream, but nothing distinctive that I can pull out clearly.

Overall, this is a delightful blend, but it did not impress me too much! I love the idea of adding a smokey black tea to earl grey! :) However, I think I might have rated this lower because I just wanted the flavours to be much bolder than they were!

Flavors: Bergamot, Citrus, Cream, Smoke, Smoked, Vanilla

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 30 sec
Cameron B.

I really like Lupicia’s Earl Grey Grand Classic – it’s smoky with longan fruit!

Silent Kettle

AH! I would love to order from Lupicia! But sadly, I’m not sure they deliver to Canada, of it they do, I might be charged customs :( It is the same reason why I don’t order from the necessiteas! <3 :(

Silent Kettle

But lol! I always here people speaking so highly of Lupicia! <3

Cameron B.

We’ll have to do a swap sometime so you can try some and see what you think. :)

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85

Just a refreshing straight tea! :) It tastes exactly like the traditional medicinals spearmint tea! I like spearmint, so if you enjoy having plain spearmint tea, then you will also like this one! :)

Flavors: Spearmint

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 45 sec

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84

So sad that my bag is gone! :( I think this is one of the few teas from David’s Tea that I really enjoyed. I dislike most of their tea blends now because they taste like chemicals and stevia :( However, most of their teas without stevia are actually quite good! :)

Sadly, I am not sure when I will repurchase it since I have tried a lot of things from David’s Tea already! :) Probably the next time they have a huge sale like they do closer to the end-of-year!

Flavors: Cardamom, Cinnamon, Ginger, Spicy, Vanilla

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64
drank White Lemon by The Tea Haus
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I just got my order from the Tea Haus, a small business here in Canada! Everything came so fast and well-packaged – it left me pleasantly surprised! :) I love the new see through covers that they are using as well because it allows me to see what the loose leaf looks like through the bag!

Smell: This smells like a lemon candy, but also slightly herbal or medicinal? This might be because of the lemon verbena or lemon balm present in this tea? Also! The smell STAYS in the cup after you finish steeping it! :)

Taste: This tastes creamy? Which caught me off guard! But when I checked the ingredients, this has lemon cream flavouring, so I guess that creaminess that I am getting from this tea makes sense! Also, I think I expected a refreshing citrus taste; however, the actual lemon flavour of this tea is less sharp and more mellow. It is not bitter at all, but smooth like lemon grass. To be honest, it tastes like a melted lemon hard candy without the sugar!

I mostly bought this because I know white tea has a lot of health benefits (it is extremely high in antioxidants) and I thought this flavoured white tea would be a fun way to try out more white teas!

I enjoyed this one! I am just not sure I enjoyed it enough to repurchase it, but luckily, they offer 25 gram bags! :) So, I am glad I got to try it.

Flavors: Candy, Citrus, Cream, Lemon, Lemongrass, Smooth

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 3 min, 30 sec
ashmanra

That sounds like an awesome combination! I love lemon and vanilla.

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90
drank Phoenix Oolong by DAVIDsTEA
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Such a beautiful, smooth tea that tastes expensive! To me, it tastes extremely smooth with zero bitterness or tannin. It tastes like stone fruit and lychees. However, I feel like every time I make this tea; it tastes slightly different. Sometimes it tastes like lychees, other times, it tastes more like stone fruit or minerals. But either way, it is a wonderful blend.

Flavors: Apricot, Fruity, Lychee, Mineral, Smooth, Stonefruit, Sweet

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 3 min, 45 sec

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84

Absolutely delicious! :)

Prep: I made this stove-top style with some milk and a bit of sugar, and it was so good!

Taste: I dislike DT because some of their teas taste so artificial/like chemicals. They also use so much stevia in most of their tea blends now. However, Saigon Chai tastes wonderful! It tastes warm, refreshing, and comforting.

I mostly get vanilla, cinnamon, and ginger notes. And the vanilla does not taste artificial, but like they used actual vanilla beans. I also think the vanilla notes give it a creamy quality?

Yum!!! An extremely good tea!

Flavors: Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cream, Creamy, Ginger, Spices, Spicy, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec

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I usually love cinnamon, spicy, and chai teas! Anything with Fall spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves makes my tea lover heart happy! However, this tea was just okay. I have had better cinnamon based chai blends (Celestial’s Bengal Spice comes to mind) than this one.

It mostly tastes like cinnamon bark that has boiled for a long time (I grew up drinking cinnamon tea that my mom would make me when I was sick). So it has no artificial taste to it.

I think I just disliked it because the flavour was very one-dimensional.

Flavors: Cinnamon

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I feel so sad because I really wanted to like this tea. It smells AMAZING. Like refreshing oranges or sweet tangerines and spice. It reminds me of the holidays! However, the taste itself does not translate over from the smell. It tastes like black tea and cinnamon.

I do not get any orange flavour from this. It is more so there to give it a fragrance than an orange taste, which is so odd since Deb does her other citrus teas so well!

Plus, there is not much about this tea that invokes a cinnamon roll feeling. When I think of cinnamon roll, I would imagine something sweet like vanilla or icing sugar being used on top of the ingredients already in this tea.

I believe an excellent bakery-style teas that Deb has knocked out of the park are her apple caramel cinnamon bun and raisin bread pudding teas. Those tea blends actually taste like bread or pastries. I will purchase them again next time I order! :)

Flavors: Cinnamon, Orange

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Hello everyone!

So, how did I get into tea? I think I have always had a fascination with tea. But I really got obsessed with it after watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I loved how Uncle Iroh used tea as a way to both practice self-care and connect with others.

I aspire to do the same through my tea endeavours.

My Favourite Canadian Small Tea Businesses: (Thus far! As I explore new tea brands, I am sure this list will grow)

Dessert by Deb
The Tea Haus
The Chai Brewing Company

My Preferred Preparation:
For black teas, I prefer the stove-top method with milk and sugar. For all other teas and herbal infusions, I usually prefer having them hot without any add-ins. However, I do like an occasional iced tea! Especially for some fruity or floral blends.

My Tea Preferences:
I enjoy flavoured teas more than straight teas; however, I do have a soft spot for traditional green or oolong teas.

Favourite Flavours:
- Masala chai (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and other warming spices!)
- Cream
- Mint
- Tropical fruit (lychee, mango, pineapple)
- Maple 
- Orange
- Roasted/smokey
- Caramel
- Floral (especially jasmine)
- Honey
- Nuts (hazelnut, almond)
- Sweet potato
- Fall fruits (apples, cranberries)
- Earl Grey
- Vanilla bean

Least Liked Flavours:
- Anything that tastes too artificial (especially vanilla or chocolate!)

- Tart (too much hibiscus)

- Ginseng

- Guarana powder 

- Coconut oil (or oily teas)

- Red rooibos

Location

Canada

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