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The teas I ordered for my birthday arrived today, and this was the first one I decided to try. It’s maybe not the most complex tea I’ve tasted, but it is so, so good. I don’t think I’ve ever had a tea that captured the smell of fresh, perfectly ripe strawberries so well. It also has strong notes of caramel/toffee and some apple. I hope they keep this blend around!

So, my best friend Allie bought me this tea for my birthday one year ago. It is a very large tin full of small paper packets of individual 5g servings. I’ve decided to drink some of this every year on my birthday, so we had this with my birthday dinner (vegan ribs cooked by Casey and shared with Allie and Andy). I like very much and is a very versatile tea. It reminds me of roasted Dong Ding.

Casey made vegan ribs (they were amazing) and mashed potatoes for my birthday dinner, and Allie and Andy came over and brought a vegan chocolate cake and raw cheesecake (also, Casey had baked a pumpkin pie, so had a lot of desserts). I’m holding back rating this one, because my mouth was too full of cake and pie to really give the flavor of the tea proper attention. It was yummy, though. :-)

It’s my birthday today! I stayed in bed longer than I should have today (I was on call all day for the winery, but I only had two appointments). Anyhow, I had a delicious leftover pizza breakfast, and decided to brew up this sample to have after. This tea is beautiful, but unfortunately it is not bold/astringent enough to cut through the pizza flavors, so I really should have saved it for another time.

This is one of the Darjeelings that I am trying to sipdown because it is getting old. I ordered this just about a year ago now. This morning I am having it after my favorite breakfast: tofu scramble + potatoes + hot sauce + lots of nutritional yeast. Anyway, this tea has a real peppery aftertaste today which I am actually rather liking.

I’m not a big fan of vanilla teas to being with, but this one reminds me a lot of a diluted cake batter flavor. It was still fun to try.

I wasn’t into this one at all. I love peppermint and peppermint bark, and the flavoring used was good, but I don’t think the black tea base complimented the flavoring at all. Oh well. If someone wants this one, message me and I will send it to you.

OMG, this smells just like black Jelly Babies, which were my favorite growing up. I haven’t had one of those candies in years (sadly, not vegan). I’d drink this tea just to smell it, because it brings me back to Christmastime when my family would buy a bunch of candy from the Irish shop to share. Jelly Babies, Flakes, Crunchies, Roses, Cadbury’s fruit and nut bars, and, of course Tayto Crisps.

I had a few sips of this before bed, but now that it’s cooled overnight the cinnamon, which I initially barely tasted, is really strong. It’s definitely better this way for breakfast.

This was delicious. It tastes like whipped cream and slices of banana. It doesn’t have quite enough going on for me. I think prefer banana pudding, but both are great.