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Day 1 DavidsTea 24 Days of Tea advent calendar - Let It Snow. Here we go! I have shied away from a lot of the DavidsTea offerings in the past as I tend to prefer tea that tastes like tea, not like a dessert concoction. I’m the same way with coffee (no flavoured syrups, no PSL) & even cocktails (if they have more than 3 ingredients aside from ice and if any of those ingredients are sweetened, I’m usually tapping out unless I know I am in the hands of a master mixologist). So, I surprised myself by buying the DavidsTea advent calendar for this year. But I figure it’s the holiday season, the one time of year that I tend to indulge in sweets, so why not have it be daily calorie and carb-free tea sweets instead of baked goods or candy?

This tea basically embodies everything that has made me avoid DavidsTea in the past: added sweeteners, stevia (which I am not a fan of ever), a potpourri-ish mish-mash of ingredients, a flavour profile that is basically the equivalent of someone driving a fruity, white-chocolate Mack truck into your face. But, I gotta say (and this is why I just clicked Yes on Recommended below), going into this experience expecting a ‘dessert tea’ not a ‘tea lover’s tea’ I found myself enjoying it. The cinnamon and clove rescued it, IMO. I could 100% do without the stevia. That stuff always makes everything taste a bit fake-y (ironically). With the otherwise tasty pile-on of fruits/candied fruits and white chocolate, it really did not need stevia in there mucking up the flavour, would have rated higher without it. I barely even discerned any green tea-ness to this tea. Good for people who like dessert tea, sweets lovers, people who want to drink fun tea but maybe do not actually like the tea part itself. All-in-all I’ll give it a Pretty Good, which is much better than I was expecting!