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Finally broke up my box of this that I’ve been hoarding. I’ve already gone through the other two… I wish this was sold all year. They better not even think about retiring it. This is my favorite CS tea it really tastes like a Sugar Cookie. Yum!

Sipdown!
This tea was SO Fragrant in the little sample bag that it rubbed off on the other sample bags as well.

I added about a teaspoon of almond milk for creaminess.

Flavorwise- This is a nice Earl grey. The bergamot is powerful which is often how I prefer my earl greys. The maple adds a nice sweetness keeping the bergamot from making the cup too bitter. I think the rooibos also does that since it’s not just a black tea base. I have to say that I was on a real earl grey kick last summer and now I’m definitely wanting other teas a lot more. I do enjoy this but wouldn’t buy more for my cupboard ATM since I’m still slightly sick of earl greys. It’s definitely not one of my favorites out of all the teas I’ve tried from AQ2T so far. This one is definitely less unique but is still nice.

So This is a sample that came with an old DavidsTea order.
I prepared this as a hot tea with no additives
The dry leaf is pretty looking and smells like those Vitamin C packets that people often take when they are getting sick.

Brewed up it smells a bit more like a real orange but still somewhat artificial. It doesn’t taste bad at all. Although the orange flavor does resemble creamsicle flavored vitamin or medicine. It remind’s me of Good Earth’s Matcha Maker tea but tastes like a much more mellow version of it. It is cloyingly sweet. I don’t find many things to be too sweet as I have a big sweet tooth myself. This definitely leans on the too sweet even for me side. It also reminds me a lot of nettle tea which is my favorite medicinal tea.
I definitely need to keep exploring mate teas since so far the few I’ve had before have all been from DavidsTea.

Sipdown!
While looking at the loose leaf I’m noticing that there are a LOT of large cinnamon bark pieces in my sample bag of this. So there should be a lot of spice in this cup.

I did add some maple syrup to this and a tiny bit of almond milk.
This is a nice tea not what I was expecting but I really like the spices in this. I was expecting this to be a really heavy maple tasting tea with some spice. The spice was the main flavor in this though for me. It tastes like what you would want a Pumpkin Chai tea to taste like. I don’t really get pancakes from this as much as pumpkin chai. The base is malty and the milk adds a creaminess to the cup. There’s a slightly sweet spiced pumpkin flavor as well. It’s slightly spicy but the spices are very well balanced. This would definitely be a great Chai to drink during Fall. It reminds me of Bath and Body Work’s pumpkin collection.

So I finally tried this as a Chocolate milk latte like Variatea makes.

Prep: I very loosely used the measurements of the David’s Tea Eggnog latte recipe. Instead of doing chocolate milk I used 80 percent chocolate soy protein shake and 20 percent real chocolate milk to make it a bit healthier. I also skipped adding the regular milk like that recipe calls for.

It turned out delicious it was very rich and creamy with just the right amount of sweetness. The tea added some floral and coconut notes. There was no sunscreen/ lotion flavor to be found. I think this is how I’m going to be using up this tea. I’ll probably try it as a chocolate milk cold brew as well at some point.

So I feel like in my A Quarter To Tea reviews previously I’ve been pretty harsh/Haven’t done a great job of getting my thoughts out correctly. I really like pretty much all of the combinations I’ve tried so far. They are very interesting and leave me craving more. I think it took me awhile to get used to them they have a sort of delicateness. That I can’t explain in the taste that I wasn’t used to. I’m learning that I like really strong flavored teas and delicate ones too. The flavors seamlessly blend together.

I was craving a cup of this one that I actually have a good size bag (whereas all my other cravings were ones that I only had purchased tiny samples of) of even though it’s almost gone. This with the tiniest bit of honey really hit the spot tonight. This company’s teas really are blended beautifully.

This was a sample from my Black Friday Harney & Sons order during their free shipping on all orders event.I still haven’t opened any of the sample pouches I bought from that order. Since I’m trying to sipdown other teas first. So this is really my second tea that I’ve ever tried from them so far. It was a free sample from the order. All of the 3 free samples from them came in sachets.

I brewed this hot with no additives.
Tasting Note: This is pleasant but not what I expected at all. I don’t taste the pomegranate at all so the name is definitely misleading. Its creamy and quite sweet with strong honeysuckle notes coming through. It’s slightly floral tasting. It’s definitely not a fruity oolong whatsoever which is what I would expect if I hadn’t read the tasting notes before brewing this up. There are also some lovely buttery & grassy notes similar to a sencha. This tea needs to be renamed in my opinion. It’s a lovely tea but the name doesn’t fit it whatsoever. This reminds me a lot of Steven Smith Teamaker’s Jasmine Silver Needle tea that I love so much but it’s less complex, less floral, and lighter tasting.

Warning: mini rant below
I’m pretty sure that this is the right source since the leaf looks the same and the other tea’s from the company are from here or Culinary Teas.
I got this tea down at the beach and couldn’t decide between this one or the Irish Cream. I asked a family member which one I should go with and of course my impatient grandfather just said go with that one while pointing to the Caramel Pu-erh. So I went with this one. I’m the type of person who weighs the pros and cons and found that they were tied when picking between these two teas. I definitely need someone to come into my life who has great reasoning and can make these types of decisions for me.

Prep: I used one Teavana perfect spoonful. Steeped this western style using 9 oz of boiling water to be exact for 3:15 minutes covered. I used no additives as this tea is best without any milk or sweetener in my opinion.
Steep #2: 6 oz of water for maybe 7 minutes
Steep #3: 4 oz of water for maybe 12 minutes

Taste Wise- This is sweet in a burnt sugar sort of way. It definitely has a syrupy sweetness of sorts to it but I wouldn’t necessarily identify it as caramel. The Pu-erh base is earthy, mineral-y and perhaps slightly fishy but that might just be because the dry leaf smelled somewhat fishy. It’s an interesting tea for sure. I didn’t pay a ton of attention to it while drinking it so this tasting note will be expanded on in the future.
I definitely would like to explore some higher grade pu-erhs but unfortunately western steeping is often more convenient for me. I’m holding off on rating this for now until I try it again. I enjoyed it but it was a bit bizarre and I’m not in love with it.

This is probably the oldest tea in my cupboard (I believe it’s a year and a half old basically the last time that DT sold this) although it was only opened a month or two ago. I still have a whole bag of this unfortunately.
Nothing new to say it still tastes like sunscreen to me. I think I might try it as a chocolate milk cold brew like Variatea does next time. Since it seems like I’ve tried everything else to make it easier to drink. Since it was in a way a gift from a family member who mixed this tea up with another that I liked I feel somewhat obligated to use it instead of tossing it out.