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I’m surprised I’ve reviewed this tea before. I don’t recall it.

This time, I loved it. with a touch of cane sugar served hot or plain iced, it is super versatile. I can taste the sweet rooibos and honeybush. I like the mint (not too strong in menthol), plus the cocoa is showing up faintly in the background. It could use more cocoa, but I still think it is superior to mose chocolate mint rooibos blends I’ve tried.

I had this tea at a lovely spa and was surprised by their high quality tea selection. I’ve been to spas with only Stash mint tea and one with Lipton. I ended up drinking a lot of tea that day.

This EG Crème is good with a touch of cane sugar, but I took a teabag home and am now enjoying it a lot with milk. The dry tea smells like smooth vanilla and bergamot, but the brewed tea is primarily flavourful bergamot and fresh black tea without the vanilla. I would say I can taste the creaminess, but it is weak and distant. I like my EG potently creamy with lots of vanilla and cream flavour.

This is quite an interesting tea. I pulled it out of the TTB and am enjoying my last cup.

There is a lot of lemon and strawberry, it actually tastes a lot like lemon and strawberry PEZ mixed together, but without the sweetness. The base is flavourful and lightly floral. I think it is is a vegetal white like Bai Mu Dan) because there are some herby and bok choy vegetal notes that stand out. It also reminds me of pineapple, maybe based on the acidity and fruity flavour.

Very heavy on the rooibos, lightly fruity and floral. Mostly just rooibos though.

Oof this is so bitter for a lightly roasted oolong. It does have the roasted flavour but it doesn’t taste fresh or high quality. The leaves are heavily broken so longer steeps seem to get more bitter faster than they get more flavour. Main notes are raisin, molasses (but without the sweetness), charcoal, and toasted barley.

This is a spectacular vanilla rooibos that reminds me of bourbon. The rooibos is much tastier than a lot of rooibos I’ve had recently from other companies. There is something that reminds me of honey or brown sugar but I wouldn’t call it toffee. The calendula petals are very pretty in this, sort of wispy and they make a good accent colour.

If I hadn’t rechecked the label I would have assumed this was the original/unflavoured coffee leaf tea. There was no floral jasmine notes at all. There was a touch of vegetal qualities but mostly in the way of “it tastes like leaves”. It actually reminds me a lot of houjicha with its smokey and dried leaf aroma. No jasmine though, which is disappointing.

Beautiful and elegant, I love this violet and apricot white tea. It tastes like apricot to me, which I enjoy a lot. Apricot is my favourite “rarely represented” tea flavour. Even with no candied violet petals this has a sweetness to it.

Another sipdown from my decaf cupboard

I’ve already reviewed this tea I believe, but since I left this cup too long and it cooled down I’m doing to write another one for drinking it cold. I get lots of standard chai spice (peppercorn, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon) and the honeybush is lovely. The honeybush is less sweet than usual, and I don’t get as much piumpkin spice flavour at the bottom of the bag. This is possibly because the bottom of my pouch had a lot of the heavier spices and less honeybush.

It is a solid chai, especially for a herbal tisane base. I will buy it again when I order from adagio, but it doesn’t stand out as much as the banana nut (my favourite adagio tea so far) or the vanilla rooibos chai.