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I don’t think I’ll be able to drink much tea today, what with our late start, and time spent running around and then the rest of the day meeting up with people etc…. etc.. It’s going to be craziness!

So I’m really happy to be able to sit down and enjoy this. And I have the second cup steeping in my timolino for when I’m out and about! It’s so rich and dark and wonderful.

Maybe tomorrow I can find time to take tea-ventory, especially now that my swaps have been mailed out today! (ohai Roswell Strange, Heather Martin and someone else!)

This one was from VariaTEA and it’s so amazing and tasty and refreshing. I need to try more from this company!

It’s a white tea, and yes. I think I can detect the base below all those fresh fruity flavours. The base is slightly earthier and provides a nice balance. The rhubarb and strawberry are the most noticeable fruit flavours but I could just sit and sip this one for ages based on that alone.

I don’t drink many whites, but I can tell this blend was done right.

Thank you!

This sample was from BrewTEAllySweet! This is a tea I’ve been curious about, so I’m happy to have had the chance.

It definitely smells like bluberry… Yum. As for the taste? I get mostly blueberry, with a hint of (imagined?) vanilla, and then a little bit of the black base beneath. I’m not getting a lot of chocolate, but that sweetness can be what makes me think of vanilla. It’s a pretty relaxing cup for a Friday afternoon!

I steeped this, but for too long. I should have done the 20 seconds or whatever was suggestion because this is STRONG. It reminds me of the Justea black teas – it’s that strong. Good, but hard to determine flavours behind all that KAPOW.

I will re-steep and try and update this later on!

I’m drinking this with lunch and I have to say that it’s too sweet.

Really. Too sweet.

I can’t believe I’m even saying this. Who is this? What happened to meeeeee?

Now to wash my mouth out with a regular tea. :P

I do enjoy these teas from Justea, but the base is so odd, isn’t it? It’s really it’s own thing. it’s almost a sour richness or something to it that sounds terrible, and could very nearly be terrible, yet is actually good when you adjust to it.

Huh. I’m not selling this to you guys am I? :P I shouldn’t have let it cool so much before I reviewed it!

And this cup of Movie Night has been brought to me through VariaTEA! Thank you!

It’s close to bed so I might be taking a risk on this, but TBF there’s like 5% tea in this so I can’t see it giving me any kind of a jolt! It was great though. I drank it while watching Cowboys Vs. Aliens which was pretty much as awful as I’d expected but it was on Netfli and met the barest minimum of entertainment. :P

This tea did better. I like it.

So I just drank Mandala’s Special Dark yesterday, so today may have been a bad time to try this. It just tastes like puerh. Good puerh. Maybe even great. But it’s not blow-my-mind with your earthiness and super rich chocolate notes.

It’s earth. It’s dark. It doesn’t taste like dirt. I could drink a fair bit of this, but I think I’ll pass the rest to Sil!

Sipdown! (143) I drank a cup of this with dinner, and the rest of it (a pitcher) is going into the fridge to cool down for the kiddo to drink later on.

I steeped it for 6 minutes and for some reason it’s NOT overly sour. I was worried about the hibiscus, but… it’s ok? I don’t think I’d buy any more though. Especially with Teavana’s recent customer service fiasco. I still haven’t got confirmation that my order is cancelled yet and I placed the request 5 days ago. If they actually ship it out to me, I will send it back to them unopened. :|

Anyway, this was ok.