Uh?
Well, i haven’t purchased any tea from Davidstea in FOREVER, because I’m trying to sipdown what I have and make room for new and exciting teas, like more Butiki, and possibly some Dammann Freres at some point, and definitely a big ass, expensive Mariage Freres order that I am saving up for.
But, when I heard about this one I knew I’d seek it out next time I hit the mall. Which was immediately after it was released, conveniently enough.
So I asked to sniff it, and based on the delicious smell, I bought the 50gr bag.
Perhaps I should have had a cup made to go before purchasing, because I think 25 gr would have sufficed.
It is very dessert like. I don’t mind DT’s chocolate flavoring so that’s all good….I can taste the coconuts and pecans, so that’s great….but I’m wondering if maybe I’m not interested in having rock sugar in my tea??
After a few sips I had to go look at the ingredients listed on the bag because I was getting a really odd fake sort of sweetness, so I wondered if there was stevia or something in it. I know stevia is natural but it’s not sugar, so it has a taste.
But this is apparently just sweetened with rock sugar. Although the ingredients also list “natural flavoring”, whatever that means.
It’s possible that I simply find this too sweet because I no longer sweeten 99% of my teas! or my coffee for that matter, so I guess it wouldn’t be odd if I really noticed the addition of sugar. But I swear there was something else going on!
I guess I will stick to dreaming about the delicious MF chocolate teas I will one day possess, because everything else seems to be lacking something in comparison.
Greaaaaaat news for my wallet!
Since when did I become a tea-litist anyway?! Man!
(Tea elitist…just made that up)
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Tealitist! I love it. We really need to start a discussion thread for Steepsterite-invented words.
Yeah! The other one I came up with was “teaxpertise” or “teaxperience”
Pronunciation is “tea-spertise” and “tea-sperience”
Hehe
I’m on the fence about wheth
**whether I want to try this one out for the same reason you seem to not like it; I don’t sweeten my tea so the added sweetener seems weird.
I feel the same about the sweetener. This is the first new davidstea I’ve wanted to try in awhile but am hoping there isn’t too much of the rock sugar in it.
Yeah. I’d rather it be unsweetened so I could add sugar if I chose to!
Tealitist! I love it. We really need to start a discussion thread for Steepsterite-invented words.
Yeah! The other one I came up with was “teaxpertise” or “teaxperience”
Pronunciation is “tea-spertise” and “tea-sperience”
Hehe
I’m on the fence about wheth
**whether I want to try this one out for the same reason you seem to not like it; I don’t sweeten my tea so the added sweetener seems weird.
I feel the same about the sweetener. This is the first new davidstea I’ve wanted to try in awhile but am hoping there isn’t too much of the rock sugar in it.
Yeah. I’d rather it be unsweetened so I could add sugar if I chose to!