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
Second (long) infusion to try and suck the goodness out of my small sample. Still really delicious apple crumble scent and a medium-strength flavour still prevalent. I considered sucking the infusion once I was done with it but thought better of it at the last minute… I’M GONNA MISS YOU, FOREVER NUTS.
Preparation
Ran a second infusion of this last night into the timolino and didn’t get around to drinking it today, so I guess technically it’s iced? Hehehe. Still delicious. Glad I’ve got some more of this from the Tea With Benefits pack I picked up on special in January—I think I’ll get through this 18g tin pretty quickly, even with resteeping.
Ooh yeah! Love pu-erh, love oolong, love ginger and love orange… so the ingredients for this tea are right up my alley, though you always wonder with a great ingredient list how it’s gonna translate.
The Skinny cuts it! A gutsy tea with a good whack of ginger and just a hint of sweet orange. Very satisfying. Looking forward to a re-steep of this.
Preparation
Oh, damn.
This was just a sample from an online purchase I made while over in the USA, and I am having real regrets about not buying some stock. It’s so good. Perfect warm dessert tea and I bet it’s just delicious iced as well.
Wah.
Preparation
Upping from my first review because that was hot and today was iced. Blammo, we have a winner. This is so damn refreshing, I almost can’t bear it.
Preparation
I had written this one off until I tried it iced. So much better!
I first tried it on an international flight in my brand new timolino! Any decent tea was better than the stock standard teabags, haha. But it’s definitely an iced tea. It tastes like sherbet…
Haha, yes definitely better than a bagged tea on a flight.
Holy magoly. I’ve been enjoying this straight black but added a double scoop this morning for a much-needed caffeine boost and also added a teaspoon of raw sugar and ZING, that bit of added sweetness just EXPLODED the sweeter notes in this tea to an AWESOME degree. I don’t know if I’ll be able to drink it straight ever again…
But that’s ok I guess because it’s a limited edition so once I’m out of this amazing silver bottle tin, I’m out :(
Flavors: Berries
Preparation
Hmm… from my timolino steep today this seems a lot less exciting than my first rating (95, gosh!). I tried for a short-ish steep time so I could try a second round but it’s really just tasting like black tea. Delicious black tea, but fairly plain black tea nonetheless. Hmm.
Preparation
Second steeping after my disappointment with last night’s first steeping: left leaves for around 30mins in a timolino. Far less almond essence in the second steeping, a far more natural nutty flavour coming through. Upped rating from 45 to 50 because I’m still not over the moon.
Flavors: Nuts
You are loving the David’s teas you picked up!
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.
Haha! That’s awesome. Do they ship to Australia?
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.