Tealicious Tea Company

Yet another LiberTEA tea she sent my way! She SPOILS ME!
:)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the smell of Blueberry Teas! This one is no exception! It’s lovely!

And the TASTE is down-right tempting and tasty! It’s a gentle black tea with a medium blueberry flavor…neither of which are too intense or overdone. This is perfect for the afternoon and would mostly likely be marvelous iced but I am drinking it hot and it’s VERY pleasant!

SIPDOWN

This will be missed! HELL…I miss it already and I just started the cuppa!

It’s stronger than the other cups…I did add a bit more, tho! I had enough for 1 regular cup and 1 small teacup so I decided to do a double down and I think I like it even better the stronger it is.

See previous notes…

My first and 2nd cup of the day…the 2nd cup didn’t stand up…it was the 2nd infusion tho and my water wasn’t as hot…ah-well, I still know it’s good!

Backlogging a few cups of this over the past two days. It tasted LESS like Maple than my last attempt but still quite tasty and a nice kick of a black tea in the morning! See other notes

Another THANK YOU to Liberteas for this one!

It’s malty, candy-caramelly, rich, sweet, creamy-smooth,and comfy and cozy! I really like this! I think Maple Flavored teas are wonderful but this has that little extra something tied into one!

Wooooo!

ahh-mazing! I love this!

The black tea is bold and invigorating, very smooth and rich. It provides a nice backdrop of flavor for the bergamot and lavender without overwhelming them. It is not too astringent (actually, it’s really quite smooth and almost creamy, with very little … almost NO… astringency), and there is no bitterness to this.

The bergamot is the strongest note, but the lavender comes in very sweetly and softly, and there is no mistaking that it is lavender. These two flavors are very well balanced, offering a strong flavor without coming off like soap. I don’t like soap. But I do like bergamot and I like lavender … when they’re done correctly. And they’re blended masterfully with this blend. I love it!

Having another cup of this tea before I send the rest off to my SororiTea Sister. I have had this tea a few times now, and it seems to get better and better.

The flavors here are subtle and yet very smooth … well-rounded. The jasmine and the bergamot work well together because neither is overpowering. Two gentle flavors making a very smooth, delicious cup of tea. Mellow and enjoyable.

Enjoying a cup of this today, and loving it. The bergamot is light and melds nicely with the hints of jasmine. A very pleasant cup … a very good afternoon tea.

I increased my rating slightly as I don’t feel I was fair last time to compare it to the Earl Grey Excelsior. That one is phenomenal, of course, but, they are two different teas and deserve to be treated as such.

Lovely! The other day, I tasted the Earl Grey Excelsior and I absolutely fell in love with it. As far as “Earl Grey”… this blend falls a little short of the Excelsior, but, then again, they are two different teas. And for what this is intended to be – an Afternoon Tea – it is quite lovely.

The bergamot is softer here, more like a squeeze of citrus in my cup of tea rather than a primary focus. The jasmine is quite soft, just enough to give a floral whisper to the cup and enhance some of the bergamot’s floral notes without coming off as soapy. The black tea is brisk and on the dry, astringent side.

Very pleasing: a little fruity, a little floral, and bright tea flavor. Nice.

This is FABULOUS! I think that this one may have usurped the top position for my favorite Earl Grey tea… yes, it’s that good. The blend of Yunnan, Keemun and Ceylon makes a fantastic base – strong, robust, a little malty, rich, and even a little bit of that rich, fresh-baked bread appeal to it. The bergamot is strong but not at all perfume-y or soapy. It is even a little sweet, with just the right amount of tangy citrus notes.

So VERY good. If you love Earl Grey… you’ve got to try this!

I have SO missed this tea. So when I got the 3rd Day of Christmas in the 12 Days of Christmas swap, the very first tea that popped into my head was this tea. I wanted more of it, and so I needed to find some way to fit the French Canadian Maple into the idea of Three French Hens. I got the french part anyway!

I absolutely love this tea. So yummy, the best maple flavored black tea I think I’ve ever had. There might be others, but, I certainly can’t think of them at the moment.

Having another cup of this today… it is so delicious. Sweet, maple-y goodness. I love this tea. I think I might even give it a few more points!

Oh my goodness this is SO GOOD. That’s exactly what I exclaimed after I took my first sip. It’s a good thing nobody else is home now, because I get teased enough about how much of a tea nerd I am, me doing a happy dance over delicious tea (Tealicious Tea?) would only instigate more of it. Not that I mind, really, the way I see it is that they just don’t know what they’re missing.

This is so warm and cozy and delicious. The maple flavoring is PERFECT… strong and sweet but, it doesn’t overwhelm the Ceylon tea base which is pleasant and mild in flavor. This is the kind of tea that would be a good weekend breakfast tea … not really “invigorating” but instead the kind that you want to curl up with and really savor.

So very very good.

The very last cup of this… I’m very sad to see it go.

I might consider putting in an order online, since the shop’s converted to a Digital Storefront only, but one of my favourite things was walking there myself, going in, and discussing tea.

That phenomena wherein a tea you were “meh” about from the start begins to become absolutely delicious when you’re running very low on it.

And then there’s the added threat that the company I got it from has since closed down, and I don’t know their sources.

Very classic Ceylon smell, taste is clean, slightly astringent, woodsy—oaky, yes. Dry. You’d think by now I would have gotten a little better at describing tea. Bah.

This is the last of my Tealicious teas. Tealicious closed down while I was Up North, and I finished off the Vanilla Black I got from them while I was up there. So I’m savouring this. It always satisfies whenever I’m in the mood of a Ceylon. Oaky.

Can’t do a detailed review because I’m about to fly out the door. In a hurry.

I got the “oak” she described in the smell, but didn’t get it right away in the taste. It’s cooled considerably since then though, and I’m getting something that could be described as a strong oak, perhaps. The tea is a very solid Ceylon overall though. I haven’t had a bag of just Ceylon in my cupboard for a while, so this is nice.

I finished off the last of this yesterday. I did’t have enough for a full cup, so I mixed it with my Honeybee oolong. I was quite sad about it, because apparently Tealicious has closed down in my absence (I’ll know for sure once I get back home). I had only this tea and one other. If I’d known, I would have seriously stocked up.

The mellow vanilla and china black didn’t go as well with Honeybee as I’d hoped (Honeybee being a bit sharper, especially since blending them meant blending their steeping-times), but I think it was a good attempt, and it was still quite tasty. Sadly I had to drink most of it cold, because I got dragged out of the office shortly after making it. Administrative work rather than geology-related; I was helping make a presentation for comparing the different units our department’s thinking of renting, so we can move out of our current trailer. It’s too small for our planned expansion.

Eleven days until I head home. I had troubles with the internet in the library today, so I ended up spending three housr reading the League of Extaordinary Gentleman instead. I finally got it working, but I’ve only an hour and a half before the library closes.

I decided to take a break from all the new-found teacompanies I’ve been visiting lately, and return to an old favourite.

Nancy has a system there, where if you buy a certain amount of teas, you get one free. It’s a card-system—Tealicious’ business cards have boxes on the back, and she punches a hole for each tea you buy, and keeps them all organized in her desk.

Anyways, I didn’t start a card until maybe my third visit, but I’m already only one or two boxes away from a free tea. Hahah.

The leaves are as dark as midnight. That kind of black you obtain by mixing a bit of red, which gives the illusion that it’s even darker.

The tea and vanilla smell together is beautifully delicious. Brewed, the ratio of vanilla-smell to tea-smell is the same. The vanilla doesn’t overpower the tea.

I still love her tea base. It’s very slightly astringent at five minutes, but the vanilla smooths it out wonderfully. This is mellow, not STRONG but not weak. I think this is a very good balance. I’m not disappointed, even as a person who normally enjoys very strong vanilla.

Her tea base choice has its own somewhat creamy element… It doesn’t SEEM to come from the vanilla, although it goes very well with it. The base is also sliiightly malty… It’s listed as a “China” tea. As it cools I can smell the tea more. It baffles me, but it’s very nice.

I was half-tempted to pick out the little caramel blocks and eat them. I was able to resist.

Dry, it has a strong, buttery caramel smell, with a smokey woodsyness underneath. The smell is similar brewed, though slightly sweeter and more woodsy.

It’s a very mild taste. I’m inexperienced with rooibos’, but it’s a mild, pleasant wood-and-caramel mix. It’s got a coffee-like element to it, which might be the caramel. The sort of dark smokeyness that I’m getting, or something.

This’ the last of this! Due to the fact that I think it makes an excellent breakfast tea, chances are I will probably purchase it a third time. I practically have a tin specifically for it.

But I may also branch out and (gasp) use the tin for a different tea. My number of empty tins now equals the number of teas I have still in the bags they came in (the roll-down close ones; can’t be good for them, I don’t see them preventing much air exposure); two from Tealicious, two from Granville, one from Teaopia, one from Murchie’s, one from Great Wall.

Although some of the empty tins are A&D’s. And I just don’t have the heart to peal off the stickers from those yet. If they came off more easily, I would, but they’re stuck on there pretty good. They’d just tear.

Oh, delicious maple! How I have missed you.

I bought a nice 100g bag of this this time around, along with a 50g bag of caramel rooibos. She was also selling some Revolution teas (which I have not been able to find ANYWHERE, so I was quite surprised); buy one, get one free. So I finally get to check Lavender Earl Grey off of my shopping list, and also got a box of White Pear free. I also wandered by the used book store and left my name and contact in case they come across a copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which I have been pursuing for a while. Also wandered into my favourite comicbook store, but didn’t end up buying anything. I had meant to ask if I could put in an order for some comics not normally sold in this country (copyright complications, you see), but I forgot the information I had written down for them—ISBN and all that. Sad.

All in all, it was a good day.

Of course, I don’t hear the timer go off and thus oversteep it. I don’t know by how long.

Somehow the full Due South theme seems appropriate to listen to while sipping this.

♪ You can walk a hundred-thousand miles and never find a home. You always knew one day you’d have to strike out on your own. You look up to the clouds and you can see which way the wind is blowin’. ♪

Just as I remember it, and I don’t seem to have oversteeped it too badly. Nice, strong, maple flavour on a fantastic base. Delicious. No sugar needed, and it’s got a touch of sweetness on its own.

Due South, that’s the way I’m goin’, due south. ♪

Every time I pass tea-aisles in stores, I look at their maple flavoured teas, but in the end, I’m glad I hold out and try to ignore them because this is always divine. I’ll try not to oversteep it next time.

And that’s the end of that, sob. I had just under half a teaspoon left, so I made it with about two ounces of water. I will miss you, delicious maple. I will have to pick up a 100g bag next time I visit Tealicious. But I promised myself not to spend away all my money on tea. It’s so hard.

Had this this morning. I have less than a teaspoon left, bah.

Ended up adding milk to the second steep because I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to wait for it to cool down enough to drink. Quite tasty with milk. Although I added a little too much, the maple flavour was still fairly evident.