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One of the teas in my Advent Calendar. It’s been sooo nice to get to try so many different teas. Some I really enjoyed. Others, not so much. This one was a not so much. Such a lovely color in my cup! This tea, sadly, tasted quite sour to me. I finished the cup, and it did grow on me as I drank. However, I will not add it to my list of “Need To Order.”

This was part of my Tea Forte Advent Calendar. Whoever came up with that idea (an advent calendar of tea) is brilliant! I had wanted to get one from David’s, but they were sold out. I’ve never had tea from Tea Forte, but I love the little pyramids. It’s been a nice variety of teas so far. This one didn’t do it for me. With my limited sense of taste, it came over as acidic. Very likely someone else would enjoy the flavors that I couldn’t taste.

Due to repeated and lengthy sinus infections and nasal polyps, I can’t smell. Even when air does flow through my nose (a rare event worthy of note) I smell nothing. So imagine my delight when I inhaled the steam from this tea and could “feel” it. That alone would make me rate it highly. It also tastes okay. I am out of this one right now. Might ned to make an order soon. First need to drink down some of the test of my teas to make room.

I seem to prefer weaker, more mellow teas, so I wasn’t at all sure of this one. One cup changed my mind. It certainly is stronger than some of my other favorite teas, but this one has a good, smooth flavor.

This was part of an assortment gifted to me from friends. Not a bad tea. Not wonderful, like I think I need to go stock up on it. But if I was travelling and this was one of the selections at a hotel breakfast, I would have no trouble choosing it over some other breakfast teas.

This has a nice minty flavor to it. Smooth in the cup.

I’m not experienced with tea. I have no sense of smell so the subtle flavors of tea go right by me. I can taste sweet, sour, bitter and salty. That means if there’s a bitter after taste, that is ALL I taste. I like this one. It has a smooth flavor, no biting after taste. It’s a good one to start the day out with.

I am not a tea connoisseur, being a bit new to tea drinking. I live in North Dakota USA, which is not what you would call a tea drinker’s region. Here, when you ask people what kind of tea they drink, most of them will say Lipton’s. I think that pretty much says everything about tea in North Dakota.
So, when some friends from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada gave me a tea assortment from David’s Tea, I was hooked. Santa’s Secret was the first of the teas I tried. I really liked it! No bitter after taste, and it had those cute little candy canes in it. So far this is one of my favorite teas.