Tisane de Noël

Day 22!

Back to delicious Dammann teas! Yumm! I agree with Dinosara, this one reminds me of a cookie. It is a hard and thin shortbread biscuit type cookie with Christmas spices like clove, cinnamon and nutmeg. It is super delicious. The liquor is sweet. I think it could have used a tiny bit of sweetener but I still didn’t add any. I get a bit of lemon balm in the aftertaste, it lingers for a while. But that is ok because the beforetaste is so good.

Dammann Advent Calendar, Day 22

Yay, I love this one. I even bought a box of sachets of this one, although I still rarely think of having a tisane in the evenings. Like tasty spiced christmas cookies! Yum.

damnit
i have a lot of teas to make notes on.
the ones that left an impression i can remember fairly well :)
but this one, not so much.

Day 22 of the Advent calendar. I’m now drinking them in whatever order I feel like and this evening I wanted something non caffeinated. This really does have quite the mix of flavors! I get mostly cardamon on the sip and cacao on the aftertaste with maybe a little ginger heat. I might be able to pick out some light licorice too. It is very well done and I’m surprised at how much I am enjoying it. I don’t know that I like it enough to purchase it, but it will be resteeped for all it is worth.

From yesterday, Christmas

Sample sipdown. Not sure how I got this particular bag. Possibly a lingering sample that came with my advent calendar two years ago? Or one of the bags a friend yoinked for me when some hotel she was staying at had Dammann? Either way, seems apropos to sip on as I gear up for adventageddon. I was dreading it a bit, I think because over the past few years I got over-enthusiastic and had just way too many calendars to get through every day. But then I took stock and really it’s much more manageable this year: a 25-day caffeine-free from Plum Deluxe, a 24-day from Tea Thoughts, a 24-day from Lupicia (still en route so I’ll have to catch up a bit when it gets here), and a 12-day from 52teas. The Tea Thoughts and Lupicia calendars are both not exclusively tea, so non-tea days will give me an opportunity to play catch-up if needed. I have a Hanukkah sampler from Plum Deluxe, but Hanukkah starts on December 25 this year so at that point I’ll be able to focus on just the sampler. All actually probably really doable and fun rather than overwhelming and stressful, yay! This tea is also fun. I know it has other ingredients, but all I can taste is the cocoa and cinnamon, which is a flavor profile I enjoy. Great way to ease into the situation.

Dammann Frères Advent 2021 – Day 11 (I accidentally skipped 10. Whoops! but it’s also non-caffeniated)

We can’t all be winners! Steeped in milk because the ingredients lists said "chai’ to me (tasting it without milk, and yeah I prefer it with). It’s alright this way but I prefer other cocoa spice herbals; It has so many rich ingredients that I want it to be thicker, maybe. Also, not a huge lover of the combo of chocolate and licorice.

2021 sipdown no. 4

This was a sample sent in our DF order.

There a whole cardamom pods here and the tea overall is very Christmas-spicy. Even as a tisane, it’s very “full” feeling. The red peppercorns are a nice touch to add spiciness and heat. As I continued drinking this one, I started to get a queasy stomach. I looked over the ingredients, but can’t figure out what may have caused it.

Advent 19. All caught up.

The sachet smells rich and spicy, herbaceous and floral. Chocolate flavoring-cinnamon-clove, ginger-lemon balm-floral perfume.

Every single sip is dirt rolled in licorice, sprinkled with chocolate flavoring, cinnamon, ginger and cardamom, then rolled in more dirt. Like the dry, crumbly kind. Finishes licorice-sweet.

Dirt dirt dirt. Nope nope nope.

Sipdown (264)

I don’t love this one but it does scream Christmas to me through the spice blend. I blame the licorice since that’s not a flavor I love. With that said, it’s more tolerable here than in a lot of other blends that have it.