100
drank Fantasy Island by DAVIDsTEA
1024 tasting notes

I. Love. This. Tea.

I’m upping my rating from 90 to 95 considering I’ve given my rating system a more unified code now and because I sat and huffed the dry sachet for literally five minutes straight yesterday when I needed to go to my happy place. I wouldn’t quite call me obsessed…

Or would I?

In any case, I love the steeped tea almost as much as I love the dry scent. A gutsy enough black base with sweet and delicious coconut and raspberry. You know what I want? A Fantasy Island cake. I would eat that cake so bad. Somebody create me a recipe, I’m not that culinarily creative… but I want it in my life.

Flavors: Coconut

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Courtney

You are loving the David’s teas you picked up!

Memily

It’s true, I am! It’s a good thing, too—I spent around an hour or so hanging out in one of the NYC stores back in January and having a big chat about my preferred flavours before I walked away with around a dozen 2oz packets, hehe.

Courtney

Haha! That’s awesome. Do they ship to Australia?

Memily

They don’t advertise shipping to Australia but TassieTeaGirl has successfully had their customer service team ship her stock! I believe it’s quite expensive though, and if customs decide to go through it there’s every chance it could be confiscated :( stupid Aussie import restrictions.

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Courtney

You are loving the David’s teas you picked up!

Memily

It’s true, I am! It’s a good thing, too—I spent around an hour or so hanging out in one of the NYC stores back in January and having a big chat about my preferred flavours before I walked away with around a dozen 2oz packets, hehe.

Courtney

Haha! That’s awesome. Do they ship to Australia?

Memily

They don’t advertise shipping to Australia but TassieTeaGirl has successfully had their customer service team ship her stock! I believe it’s quite expensive though, and if customs decide to go through it there’s every chance it could be confiscated :( stupid Aussie import restrictions.

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Translating my ratings, at a glance:

100 — CRITICAL OBSESSION LEVEL REACHED; CAN YOU MARRY TEA!?
95 — this must always be in my pantry. forever.
90 — excellent! you need to try this tea!
85 — very good! you should try this tea!
80-70 — I enjoyed this and will happily drink it again.
65-50 — Fine. Unremarkable.
45-35 — this wasn’t the worst drink ever but I was disappointed; it didn’t live up to my expectations at all.
30-0 — I didn’t enjoy this tea and that makes me sad.

MY TEASTORY:

Grandad got me started young, white (a LOT of white) Irish breakfast with two.

I never strayed far from that until the world of T2 Tea came to Brisbane some years ago, and now I don’t know what I’d do without a pantry full of tea options.

These days I prefer to drink my teas straight without sweetener (though I appreciate some black variations shine better with milk and/or a dash of honey/sugar). I also love a speedy iced tea (hot brewed then poured over ice), and my latest obsession is cold brewing (which doesn’t make a lot of sense, as Australia is headed into winter and I live in the coldest corner of the country, but oh well).

I’d love to make a bunch of tea friends on here, especially those who can talk Aussie teas with me. I’ve recently come back from a jaunt to North America and it was a real hoot to hit up DAVIDsTEA after reading so many reviews! I wish I’d had the chance to get to more stores… but I’m happy with what I got back past customs. See those teas and my local jams in my reviews.

I LOVE:
+ black teas
+ white teas
+ oolongs
+ flavoured versions of all three of the above
+ herbal infusions and fruit tisanes

NOT A FAN:
+ most green teas
+ LICORICE ROOT (my sworn enemy) and aniseed flavours

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Hobart, Australia

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http://tasmemia.com

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