Sometimes it saddens me that so few of Tea Desire’s blends are listed here on Steepster, and that I have to add them myself (like this blend) because they often have some REALLY good blends, and it’s a shame more people haven’t tried their tea.
I had this as a Tea To Go today, for work (I was really thirsty, and two thermoses of tea just didn’t seem like enough). Like usual, they asked if I wanted a favourite (I love being a regular) or if I wanted something new – and I decided to get something new. My stipulations were not a black blend (I’ve really not been impressed with the ones at Tea Desire, despite being impressed by most of their other teas), and not something spicy (since I had DAVIDsTEA’s Gingerbread to drink with me as well).
This is the one I was suggested, and after smelling it I decided to go with it. Usually, Shelby (one of the ladies who works there) is very good at recommending teas for me. All I was told, is that this was a herbal blend with lots of bamboo in it and red currants (they know I like currants, since I adore Champagne Cassis). I’ve never had a bamboo based tea, so along with the very appetizing and sweet smell that had me really interested.
Steeped, the liquor was a pale peachy yellow colour and the aroma was shockingly strong and a dead on ringer for the smell of Fruit Loops. Holy did it smell good. Very, VERY sweet and fruity: NOT the light, vegetal taste with subtle fruit notes I was expecting to get from a bamboo tea. But like I said, I’ve never had a bamboo tea before so I guess I was making assumptions on what it would taste like.
The taste was very much the same: pure Fruit Loops without the starchiness of the actual cereal. It was interesting only having a limited idea of the ingredients in the blend (I’ve since looked up what they were) – typically I research the hell out of a tea before I buy it. If I hadn’t been told there were red currants in the blend I can’t say for sure I would have guessed that. I might have guessed peach or a very sweet raspberry, but neither of those are in the ingredients either. I guess what I was tasting must have been strawberry, pineapple (odd I couldn’t identify pineapple – it’s a favourite flavour of mine), and the lemongrass primarily.
Damn. Curse Tea Desire for getting me interested in buying another tea!
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DAVIDs Countess of Seville also smells exactly like fruit loops. However it does differ in taste to the cereal.
I’ve smelled Countess of Seville and it smells WAY too grassy and vegetal for my taste, despite the citrus and bergamot which I usually go for. Typically, I’m just very anti green tea, though. It seems to take a lot for greens to wow me (especially straight greens).
This was on my “I so want to buy it and yet it has strawberries in it” list, which I almost broke down and bought because it was so darn intriguing. I’m really glad it’s as interesting as it sounds! Maybe I’ll ask them if they can make a blend minus the strawberries.
Have you tried Davids Bamboozled? I don’t know if they still have it or not, but it was a pretty good bamboo blend too.
Haven’t tried Bamboozled, but it’s on my list to sample now.
DAVIDs Countess of Seville also smells exactly like fruit loops. However it does differ in taste to the cereal.
I’ve smelled Countess of Seville and it smells WAY too grassy and vegetal for my taste, despite the citrus and bergamot which I usually go for. Typically, I’m just very anti green tea, though. It seems to take a lot for greens to wow me (especially straight greens).
This was on my “I so want to buy it and yet it has strawberries in it” list, which I almost broke down and bought because it was so darn intriguing. I’m really glad it’s as interesting as it sounds! Maybe I’ll ask them if they can make a blend minus the strawberries.
Have you tried Davids Bamboozled? I don’t know if they still have it or not, but it was a pretty good bamboo blend too.
Haven’t tried Bamboozled, but it’s on my list to sample now.