1324 Tasting Notes
This one caught my eye at the store and of course, my new favorite kombucha flavor is a limited edition one. (insert sad face here)
Based on the color I thought this would be a fruity flavor. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it actually tastes like fall to me. It’s more of a coconut ginger flavor profile. The ginger here is not like the one in ‘Gingerade’. Here it feels like a big warm hug of fall spices. It’s essentially the fall tea I’ve been looking for and was not at all expecting from the blue color. I’m gonna end this tasting note off with “It looks like Windex but it tastes like fall”.
Flavors: Coconut, Ginger, Spices
Finally got the chance to visit and try Tea Chai Te! I was meeting a friend there but he ended up at a different location and I had to wait for quite a while. Meanwhile, while I was perusing the tea menu for loose leaf to bring home the woman working there kindly brought me out a nice cup of tea on the house(Vanilla Peach Apricot). I was the only one in the place at the time but it did get busy later on. We had a good conversation about Steepster and the PDX Tea Festival and she recommended a tea room as well.
I ended up ordering this cup of tea and they weren’t serving pots yet due to Covid. I remember it being really hot as I sipped it. It was somewhat buttery but in a different way than the other milky oolongs, I’ve tried in the past. The floral notes were balanced and even though it was a little different than other milk oolongs I still enjoyed it.
I’ve only been to one of the TCT locations (in a downtown location near a Salt and Straw Ice Cream) but I love it there. Every time my friend and I go to Portland, we go there.
The one I went to was son Mississippi in the Alberta area so I think it was a different location. It was really nice though and I remembered your Tea Chai Te reviews. I actually ended up getting some of the macadamia nut mate tea loose leaf that I’ve wanted to try ever since reading your review. (:
Oh! I love that Mate! I also love their teas dusted in chocolate powder, like the Rainforest Chai! Their Mt. Hood Vanilla is quite bomb too… I just have too many favorites, lawl! (I admittedly know nothing about streets/locations as my vacation partner-in-crime Todd takes care of all navigation, but I believe it was the NW 23rd Ave location where we always go).
I’ll have to check that location out next time and grab some of that vanilla tea as well!
After I saw AJRimmer’s review on this one and it being a natural tasting mango tea it was on my wishlist. This one happened to go on sale during a free shipping window so in my cart it went. I steeped a mug of this one but then forgot about it until it was cold.
Luckily it’s still really good cold! The mango is delicious and better than a lot of other DT mango blends. (I do love Mango Fruit Punch though) I usually don’t like lemongrass but it’s perfectly balanced here just like the peppermint is. Two ingredients that I’m not fond of but really work here. The fruitiness with the minty notes is the perfect balance and a tricky combo to not end up tasting off. Often times you end up with a bit of funkiness or inconsistency between cups but none of that in this mug.
There’s also something quite nostalgic here as well but I just can’t place it. Is it grandma’s homemade peach mint iced tea during the summer? I wish I could remember.
The Windex comment just made me snort laugh.