Snow Day

Sample from Tea in Spoons stash sale. Thank you!
I definitely see where the name for this tea comes from. The combination of cool mint and hot cocoa does make me think about playing in the snow and coming in for a cup of cocoa. But the peppermint is definitely more like the herbal tea than the candy so the two flavors seem like they’re fighting each other a bit and this is definitely too sweet for my tastes. Fun to try though.

I am normally a fan of mint and chocolate, both separate and combined. However, this tea combines both flavours to create a completely different (and awful) taste and aroma all together. I’m not even sure how to describe it.

I liked this one.

Very creamy and minty, though I think the chocolate adds a sweetness to temper the mint rather than standing as a unique flavor. A nice, solid, midday herbal.

I love this tea, suprised at some of the lower ratings but maybe its persoal preference. I love the peppermint with the hint of chocolate. Feels like I am sipping a tea version of minty hot chocolate as it almost has a velvety mouth feel…one of my Davids Tea faves!

A sniff of the bag made me wrinkle my nose, it doesn’t smell very good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t taste very good either. The peppermint oil is overwhelming and doesn’t combine well with the chocolate. I think it would have been much better if they had let the peppermint leaves carry the flavor instead of trying to boost it with extract.

Thanks for this one, Ost! I’m a fan of chocolate mint and this just seemed like many ingredients to make a SUPERPOWERED CHOCOLATE MINT tea. It’s only chocolate ingredients. And only mint ingredients. (And some snowflake sprinkles!) I’m not sure why this one gets such a low rating… it’s tasty to me! (actually someone gave it a rating of ‘1’ which probably dragged down the overall rating… I always see that as like a teacher giving you a 1 out of 100 on something which would automatically make you fail the class. But ah well.) Somehow I can tell there is white chocolate AND chocolate chocolate. Maybe not the perfect chocolate mint tea but the mint is very strong… the chocolate is there, though maybe not as strong as I’d like, even if they added the cocoa shells I love to see in chocolate teas. Maybe the chocolate was filtered through the tea bag I steeped it with. It’s a good cup! I think I’d like more caffeine on a snow day though. :D

This might be due to the placebo effect, but I have brewed this tea every time I felt a sore throat starting, and not caught a cold once in the last three months. (Normally I am very sickly.) The peppermint taste is very strong, but I expect that from a cold-battling tea. This is my first herbal tea, and my one nitpick is…things are always escaping my infuser and ending up at the bottom of my cup. This might be due to the design of my infuser, but I’ve never had a problem with any of my other teas?

Very strong on the peppermint, but it is really good to have when your throat is sore. Have a stash of it hidden away for those kind of days.

This is an adorable tea to keep a pep in your step to. I had it hot on a snow day, no surprise there. The taste is light enough on your tongue to keep you in a good mood but versatile enough to enjoy the works of Alice Munro, specifically, The Progress of Love. The book takes place in Canada, Ontario for the most part, and it is an anthology of short snippets of the lives of different characters in their situations of their lives.

I love it, love the characters, love the description, love the manner in which Munro writes. I recommend Snow Day as the tea to drink to it, not just because Canada is known as a Winter Wonderland but because the tea fits the book so well, light enough to enjoy some of the more hilarious moments, sweet enough for the coming of age, and nostalgia, and yet it has that extra (I suspect the mint) which makes it mature enough for the book.

Book recommendation for this tea:

The Progress of Love by Alice Munro

This tea tastes more like mint than anything else, but I still enjoy it. It’s refreshing and I find it makes a soothing cup after a long day. I found it to be slightly disappointing when I first tried it because I could not taste the chocolate.