Anti V-Day Treat

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Black Herbal Blend
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Vanilla
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205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 16 oz / 473 ml

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  • “I had a cup of this tonight and i am now decuboarding it to add it to my swap pile. Again, not because i hate the tea but because i have outgrown it. I like the addition of the vanilla with the...” Read full tasting note
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  • “First to review?! This tea smelled pretty delicious in the infuser both before and after adding water. Sweet, vanilla-y mint. Yum! Much like Santa’s Secret from DavidsTea, if my memory serves. I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “So the sentiment might be a bit negative but it is still acknowledging valentine’s day and thus fits the bill. I actually quite like the combination of mint and vanilla in this one. It is smooth...” Read full tasting note
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  • “2nd to last cup of this and I forgot it for like, 15 minutes while I played Fallen London. /o\ THIS TEA IS VERY FORGIVING THOUGH! It’s still good! Of course, K just showed up with a coffee… I’m not...” Read full tasting note
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From Della Terra Teas

Love tea but loathe Valentine’s Day? Nothing wrong with that, just make sure you have some of our Anti V-day Treat there for you when it’s time to ignore all the cards, candies, kisses and roses! We have taken the best vanilla tea with delicious mint for this one! So, turn on the tv, sit back and enjoy your Anti Valentine’s Day Treat!

Ingredients: Black tea, vanilla bits and flavoring, mint leaf bits, red sprinkles

Allergens: contains dairy, soy. For more allergy info visit our FAQ

Suggested brewing tips:

Serving Size: 1 level tsp./6oz serving

Water Temp: 210°F

Steep Time: 2- 3 minutes

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I had to work on Saturday (I do hate 6 day weeks), so this came with me in my Timolino to make my morning more bearable. I used 1.5 tsp of leaf, gave it approximately 3.5 minutes in boiling water, and added a splash of milk. I don’t usually try a tea for the first time in a Timolino, but I feel like I’m familiar enough with Della Terra’s flavoured blends to do that. This one is good – creamy from the vanilla, mildly minty, with a hint of chocolate smoothness rounding out the sip. It’s delicately sweet – not overpoweringly so, but enough to know that this is a dessert tea. There’s a hint of the base in the aftertaste, but it’s mostly malt and I can’t argue with that. Malty teas are my thing.

I enjoyed this one (although why it’s anti v-day, I’m not sure). My one real complaint is that it’s clearly a re-named version of an existing tea (or teas, actually). I’m thinking Swiss Mountain, Bats in the Belfry, Minty Cow…they’re all vanilla/mint/chocolate blends of one kind or another, and they all taste pretty much the same. So, while I enjoyed this one, I do feel like I’ve been here before. There’s nothing unique to be found. Still, sometimes familiarity is what I crave. Never more so than at 6.30am on a Saturday, when I should be in bed. Thank goodness for tea!

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp
Fjellrev

Hope you won’t have to work on Saturday for a long time to come now! And I agree, it seems like their chocolate vanilla mint teas with whatever festive sprinkles are the same. Tasty, but the same.

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I love/hate all the colored sprinkly things Della Terra throws in there teas. It’s cut and fun and visually appealing. Fine mesh filters + sticky melted sugar is a special hell, though.

This tastes like a candy cane, though! Sweet and vanilla-y with just a pop of mint. It’s creamy without milk, but far better with.

I don’t know if I’m behind the sentiment, but a satisfying, well-rounded blend and totally covers a dessert-like mint tea craving.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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omg i never post on here any more wtf

and even right now i ran out of time and need to log off and run. ugh.

here is a video of oddree’s cat http://shmiracles.tumblr.com/post/86616074858

i bought this tea from VariaTEA yay!
i’ll write a real note later.
happy friday everyone!

OMGsrsly

HI KITTY! Hi! Surprised my beast didn’t come running. :)

TeaLady441

OMG. How did I not notice this in tumblr? I need to pay more attention for when you sneak things in!

(I hope my multitude of Hannibal reaction posts didn’t spoil everything for you guys)
http://mykrobbie.tumblr.com/post/87004451070/hannibal-the-happy-cannibal

Shmiracles

ya know what happens,… i start to write a review and i’m such a slow writer that maybe 20 to 40 mins will pass between the time i open the post window and when i actually click post. so when it IS actually posted in the steepster feed, it’s sometimes half way down the page or even on the next steepster feed page already.
if i remember to, i’ve started composing reviews in an email and then posting them into the review. at least that way i have at least 3 min at the top :)

OMGsrsly

I do that too, Shmiracles! And I see you followed me back on tumblr. Mine is 99.99% reblogs. So.

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It needs to be said here that VariaTea took a look at my shopping list, and then proceeded to put pretty much the whole thing into a package and mailed it to me. Our dear Anna in Italy did likewise, and this has resulted in an incredibly spoiled keychange indeed. You guys are so lovely. As my friend read out name after name of teas I’d coveted for so long, I just kept gasping and nearly teared up.
“So you guys just all send each other tea? Like, from around the world?”
“Yup, we sure do.” I said proudly.
“Wow. So isn’t coming home to your mail box and packaging off tea to send so much fun?”
“Oh, you have no idea.”

And man is it ever true.

So this tea was one I’d read really good reviews about, and a little while ago, i went through a phase where i wanted to try a lot of mint teas, especially vanilla mint teas, because I don’t typically like chocolate flavouring in my tea. But I’ve also come to realize that it sounded so much better in my head than it was in the cup, and this goes for pretty much any mint tea I’ve had: mint to be, Santa’s secret, the various dellaterra offerings. I think the only exception is Stacy’s peppermint patty, but I can’t remember that one nearly as well since I had it a while ago.

There’s a distinct smell to all dellaterra teas, I think, and this one was no exception. It did smell of vanilla or chocolate though, and I set to brewing it for four minutes. The mint is a bit muted here, covered by that vague dellaterra cake/vanilla/sweet combination of stuff, and the cup was definitely easy to drink, although I am grateful to know that I now won’t have to charge out and buy an oz of it (which I couldn’t do anyway LOL—the site is out).

Thanks so so much, VariaTea! Your package goes out Tuesday!

Roswell Strange

VariaTea is amazing! She’s done the same for me where she just goes through my shopping list (for a while I was keeping it very small so that she wouldn’t send me more stuff) for stuff to send, or takes notice of companies I really like, finds things for comparison with what I already have… Best tea swap partner ever!

keychange

She’s incredible! and of course I only have like three things on her shopping list, so I’m like scrambling around to find stuff, because that kind of generosity can’t go unchecked! LOL

Roswell Strange

Haha, bombard her with ALL THE TEA because before you know it she’ll be under 100 again…

Anna

I got some of the Queen in the EU swap box yesterday – it’ll be like we traded places on the dash!

keychange

Anna, you must let me know what you think of the Queen! she’s exquisite! and roswell, I’m going to see if I can’t find a few extras to pad things up a bit. No way I’m going to let her keep her cupboard down while the rest of ours skyrocket out of control! haha

Anna

Hehe, yeah – but don’t get your hopes up, it’s exactly the kind of tea I tend to avoid. You know, black and very tea-y. But I must try it!

VariaTEA

Thanks guys. And I am just very happy to share. So many people have been so generous to me that I am happy when I can do the same for others.

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