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As a licorice-despiser I was anxious about trying this, but I’m happy to say that whatever licorice in there is tolerable and unnoticeable. HOORAY! My favourite kind of licorice!

This is the perfect tea for me to be chugging in the lead-up to cold season. I’m scandalised that my body is being immune to the cold viruses running around so far this year. I thought you were weaker than this, immune system! What’s going on!? I’m not ACTUALLY complaining.

This tea smells delicious. I wanna eat it up. Delicious nutty and sweet dry leaf. The steeped tea smells near to the same, excellently enough, and even the tea itself tastes pretty darn close. Minimal licorice, almond is a legit flavour rather than that awful artificial flavour like in Alpine Punch. Winner winner all around. This is a nice mix of medicinal/tasty tea, it’s tricky for me to find one that’ll fit that double description!

Edit: it seems to get even tastier as it cools. I wonder if this could be quite nice as a cold brew…

Flavors: Nuts

Preparation

190 °F / 87 °C 4 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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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