1598 Tasting Notes
When I first read the description for this tea, I wasn’t terribly excited but that was a mistake. This is tasty as hell, which is a good thing. This is pretty much the tea equivalent of After Eight chocolate bars. Or Mint Aero? So good!
Preparation
Not too bad, but I made it with milk and the milk totally overwhelms all the flavours. I’m getting a smidgen of raspberry and that’s about it. At least it’s distracting me from mindless snacking.
I hate it when that happens! adding milk when you don’t realize it will kill all the flavour :(
Totally! Especially when it comes to chai’s! I don’t usually add milk otherwise.
I add it to my Indian black teas and chai. not all the flavoured ones tho!
If I hadn’t read “chai” on the label first I wouldn’t have assumed this to be one- it was muted anyways!
Yeah I wish it were more of a chai – I wouldn’t have bought 2 oz had I known how mellow it is. :P
So, V-Day today – time to drink this sample! It’s pretty chocolate, with jife marshmallows bits. Also this was a freebie: bonus!
I like it but I’m not convinced this is the best – I still have the Della Terra chocolate try-me pack to work through.
Preparation
I haven’t rated this one yet, although I’ve had it several times now. I’ve been busy power reading instead of hanging out on the internets. (Wheel of Time book 13!!! Aaarrrgg)
It smells like a fruity black, and it tastes nice and smooth, with a darkish fullbodied mouthfeel. I really like the aftertaste too. I’m really impressed by it!
Thanks JosieJade for such a generous sample!
Preparation
Lovely! It seems like a fairly simple tea with a strong apple flavour (I’m getting green apple for some reason) and lots of toastiness. I feel like there’s a bit more depth to it than that though on further sips.
I didn’t expect this to show up today either with the holiday but I feel spoiled. Poor Della Terra Tea. I don’t know that they make much from me. I bought all these teas when they were 30% off, spent $30 for the free shipping, they gave me a free sample of one of the Valentine’s teas, and then they spent $11 just on postage. Great deal for me. I hope they do well too bc they’re one of my top 3 tea companies! :p
Preparation
My cupboard currently lists 104 teas, 3 of which are actually teaware and don’t count. But it’s still more than I want so I am in sipdown mode! I’d like to get closer to 80.
I’d like to get closer to having 15-20 staple teas that I always “need” to have on hand, and maybe another 20-30 little sample sizes to play around with. That’s probably not ever going to heppen but…
SIPDOWN!
I… that’s so many… :O
My mom would kill me if I filled her house with tea!
Haha. To be fair, most of it is 20g or less. It could all squish onto one shelf of the cupboard but I organize it on the counter for easy access (and bc its my house – #shakesfist)
Heck yeah! If it was my house, I’d clear out a whole cabinet and go to town. But I have to make room for old-person food and twenty kinds of oatmeal.
A whole cabinet would be amaaaaazing. :D
Just thinking about it makes me want to get a million cute little tins for storage and a collection of teacups. Meanwhile, two rooms away, my husband has started to twitch and has no idea why.
I would love that! If I actually owned my own place, instead of renting, I would have a whole tea nook set up, and all my tins would be color coded. <3 I think I can understand the whole husband twitching in the other room thing. :P
OT but saaage sounds so intriguing?!
It was weird! The first cup, I didn’t mind it so much, but with the second cup I was far more aware if it and it made me think of turkey. And turkey and vanilla don’t go well in my head so I couldn’t enjoy my cup. :p Silly brain.
HA! No, that makes sense to me. Lemon-sage sounds interesting though.
I’m not really getting a lot of marshmallows out of this – more like bubblegum? And it feels a little thick in my mouth, although not unpleasantly. It’s minty and relaxing – just what I wanted.
Preparation
Not bitter/astringent to you at that temp/time? zomg, this one killed me the first time I tried it! I think I like it (the 2nd time I made it, it was good) but I still have a hard time convincing myself to make it because of that first disastrous time – like anything oolong, whoops)…
Oh sorry. I wasn’t paying attention when I did the temperature. It was more like 75 – I used the meat thermometer in the kettle to check it.
And no luck with oolong yet eh? :/
I liked Prairie Berry – I think that was oolong? And I liked the Long Life oolong a lot. But I have to work up some bravery to go for the coconut oolong again. I JUST WANT TO LOVE IT SO MUCH!! Oolong PTSD.
Past Tea Steeping Disaster? It’s a terrible, terrible thing that is. Maybe if you get K to make you a cup? Or leave it alone for a few more months?
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’Scuse me while I wipe a bit of drool off the old iPad here. Did you say Mint Aero?
I had to check Wikipedia – do you guys not have mint Aero’s in the USA? I wonder what awesome chocolate you get that we don’t?
They also don’t have kinder eggs o__o (not that it’s good chocolate, HA) but they have cherry coke ALL THE TIME and not just when the coke and pepsi gods make it so. So. The Force is Balanced.
Unlimited cherry coke! Coke and pepsi gods, why are you so cruel to citizens on this side of the boarder? Love the name of this tea, btw.
ikr? i dream of one day again having vanilla pepsi.
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Vanilla pepsi!!!!!!!! So delicious. I thought pop didn’t excite me anymore. Clearly, it still does… >.>
Pop is the hardest to kick. /o\ I almost never miss gluten, but pop…? :/ (SO delicious.)