SpecialTeas

A little disappointing. This tastes like coconut, but the coconut isn’t as refreshing and prominent as it is in some other coconut teas that I have. I can’t taste the lime much at all. Still good, just not great.

Er, I liked this more before. This is the last of my sample, and I probably won’t reorder. This is veering a little too much into cherry cough syrup territory, and I can’t taste the sencha much.

Very good. Tastes like cherries (not fake flavoring, but real cherries) without overwhelming the sencha. Like it. A lot.

The last of my sample of this – I’ve seriously had it for about a year, which is odd, because I really like this tea. It’s definitley one of my favorite oolongs that I’ve tried. May reorder the larger size, especially since this is such a good deal.

Round two! Not quite as sweet as the last one; more hearty. I’m alright with that.

So full of love for this tea, which tastes like liquid oatmeal with a big spoonful of honey. Saving my homemade bag for another infusion.

On my way out the door with a mug of this. Tastes like steel-cut oatmeal with a nice honey finish. I tend to like heartier, more savory oolongs, so I like this a lot.

This is good. It does have some maltyness to it, which I enjoy. It’s a lovely color, with just a bit of fruityness. Held up well to slight sweetening.

Such a delicious flavored black tea. As I said in my last tasting note for this, I like whatever SpecialTeas uses as a black base better than whatever Adagio uses (Ceylon, I think?). This tastes and smells like freeze-dried strawberries, with a sweet hint of cream. My sample’s all gone, so I might order more.

The first cup from my second order from SpecialTeas. This smells AMAZING, just like freeze-dried strawberries. The cream flavor comes out when steeped, but it’s not too rich or overwhelming. I like the base of this better than whatever is used for Adagio’s flavored blacks, too. A keeper.

This is the best broken leaf Assam I have had so far. Mid priced at about $12 for a 1/4 lb. I usually drink 2 to 3 cups a day. If you like a malty- honey Assam with a lot of complexity, this could be your favorite.

Wonderful.

The best Ceylon I have had yet. If I didn’t know better, I would have guessed it was a full leaf Assam. Very smooth.

Yeah, my tea selections are boring today. I am so eyeing up that Samovar deal. Unfortunately for some reason, my work computer hates Samovar’s website; I get errors the second it loads up. So gotta wait til I get home.

I have a huge backlog of tea at work from when I was sick/have been so busy this week that I haven’t had time to drink tea at work, but I brought this in, anyway. Still love this stuff. Today looks a lot quieter so hopefully there’ll be some quality tea drinking time.

This is pulling very vanilla-creamy today, which I have no problem with.

It looks like a lot of my staple teas – this one included – are about to run out at the same time!

Perfect for a Saturday morning; see past tasting notes.

This has become the tea that I bring into work when I can’t think of anything else I want. It’s always satisfying.

Upping the rating a bit on this, because there are very, very few teas that I will revisit on a regular basis. So if I drink a tea as regularly as I drink this one, it must be pretty damn good.