Passion Punch

#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #33
#drinkwhatyouown January slot 25/25

Sunday 1/31… sipping this cold brew pitcher (easy from pitcher pack) all week. Been years since I had this so I can’t remember if I liked then but I enjoy this one now. Will savor any other pp or loose tea I have left of this (and pink Passionfruit and tie dye butterfly). :)

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Ok, both the scent of the dry leaf and the flavour of the steeped tea transports me back to my Pink Passionfruit obsession. Here were its ingredients:

Apple, apple pomace, rosehip, sweet blackberry leaves, hibiscus, passionfruit, artificial passionfruit flavouring.

To compare, here is Passion Punch’s:

Apple (apple, citric acid), white tea, rosehip shells, hibiscus, sweet blackberry leaves, passion fruit granules (glucose syrup, concentrated passion fruit juice, apricot pulp, modified starch, sodium alginate), natural and artificial passion fruit flavouring.

Incredibly similar. I think that apricot pulp is making a slight difference in this one, but maybe only slightly. And I can’t taste the white tea base at all due to the strong (artificial) passion fruit flavours, plus apple, plus muted hibiscus. Never understood the point of adding actual tea leaves to a blend when you won’t even be able to taste it in the end. It’s kind of a waste. And then you’re paying up the wazoo for it because of its white tea base.

Had this iced, brought back great memories of Pink Passionfruit but also reminded me of how I got tired of that one after ripping through more than 200g of it. Even four years later, I’m like, “Yep, good, but I’ve had my fill.”

EDIT: I steeped what I had left of this tea last night and stored it in my fridge overnight. This morning I added it to some frozen fruit and made a smoothie and YUMMM!

While at work one day, my mom called me from Davids Tea to inform me that there was a sale. Of course I already knew about the sale, but her phone call was just the encouragement I needed to restock my already-full tea cupboard. She picked up 50g of most of the sale teas and this was one of them.

I finally got around to trying this one today (iced) and I’ve got to say that I was slightly underwhelmed. All I can taste is sweet passion fruit which is disappointing for me because I had high hopes for this tea being more tart with the hibiscus and cranberry flavours listed. I’ll finish up what I have left of this tea but will not be rushing out to buy more before it’s discontinued.

I tried this tea hot this morning. I am still not a fan of the taste. I didn’t like it iced either.

Had this iced and it is fantastic. Tastes like a grapefruit! Yum

Had this iced, but don’t think it has much to offer regardless of steeping method (unless you like hibiscus/tart).

Fruity, red fruits like cranberry and raspberry
Nothing that tastes like fresh passion fruit to me
No sweetness anywhere to be found
VERY heavy on the hibiscus
Steeps a very pretty vibrant red/pinkish red

This smells great, and so similar to Pink Passionfruit. It’s interesting that it’s a white tea, though. Seems more green. Anyway, I’m trying this one iced, and again, it’s very similar to Pink Passionfruit, I find. It’s an interesting taste, I’d assume its the passionfruit. It’s got a bit of a bitter taste to it, even with some sugar added. But overall I like it. Not sure if I’ll get more than 50g, though.

This is entirely unique to anything DAVIDsTEA has offered in quite a long time, which isn’t something I can often say about their blends. I get lively passionfruit notes on top of a light white tea base that gives the tea a very nice body. The hibiscus is barely noticeable too! The first time I tried this I was a little underwhelmed, but after playing with steep times and techniques it’s become an easy favourite out of this new collection.

Cold Brew!

Another one that I decided to revisit this past week. Unlike my Tropicalia cold brew from this same week, I definitely was a bit light handed with this cold brew. The flavour was sweet and refreshing (and more white tea forward than expected), but a little more thin than I’d have preferred. It’s also kind of equal parts passion fruit and generic/commercial “fruit punch” flavour and I find myself wishing for more of the sweet and sour ‘yellow tasting’ pure passionfruit flavour. Y’know, without the fruit punch element.

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.