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My first impression is milk. Then milk chocolate. Then toasted coconut. Followed by the creaminess of coconut. Then light-ish black tea infused with coconut.

It’s a lovely tea. Not one that I reach for all that often, but one that I enjoy when I do. A bit sweet and very comforting.

This is one of the teas I ordered in my big Mighty Leaf order a couple of months ago. I love the punchiness of Mighty Leaf black teas—the wake up and pay attention of their assertive bases.

This tea is very delicious. That said, I must have received the least flavoured batch of it. Though it is meant to be an Earl Grey with Chinese black and Indian teas with jasmine, I am not feeling the bergamot or jasmine. Yes, there is a vague sense of fruity sweetness, but to discern the bergamot and jasmine, you must first know it is there and then do the flavour equivalent of squinting to find it.

I never read tea descriptions or the reviews of others directly before I write a review of my own. If I hadn’t in this case, I never would have identified the Earl Grey-ness and jasmine here.

The dry leaf smells just great, but of course steeping the leaves releases all the spice and the flavours pop. Plentiful cardamon and ginger and a bit of cinnamon. To my mind, this is the perfect chai balance, give or take some pepper, black or chili. When I first tasted the tea, I thought hmm, needs caramel. As the tea cools a bit, the flavours mellow with the tea base and it is just lovely as is. The black and honeybush base blend here work rather well with the spices.

That said, it will be a very happy day for me when 52teas does a caramel series. A long caramel series of teas.

This is the camomile blend of all camomile blends in my humble opinion. The freshness of citrus, but here it is an abundance of citrus flavours.
Even the cursed lemongrass works here. The camomile is so enjoyable buoyed up by all these flavours around it. Slightest bit of tang from the rose hips and the slightest bit of a bite from something green.

I have been drinking this one for years. Such a delight.
The perfect evening tea.

Soothing and calming, perhaps. Less so for me as I am not a big fan of mint.
I am hoping that the second steeping will be better after mint attack has softened a bit.

This is a happy vanilla-scented red rooibos dry leaf with pastel sprinkles.

I don’t drink this tea often, but when I crave it, there is nothing quite like it. From time to time, I order it in store well-leafed and well-steeped as a latte when I am in need of some cheering up.

When I am at home, I drink it black and unsweetened. It is sweet enough. The flavours are simple: vanilla icing sweet and creamy with a bit of rooibos substance as backup. The perfect cure for a sweet tooth or when the need arises for a bit of comfort.

I hadn’t been overly enthusiastic about adding yet another apple tea in my stash. That said…

I welcomed the abundant apple bits in the dry leaf and its promising scent of apple and bit of spice.

I steeped quickly to ensure that the black tea base doesn’t overpower the flavourings.

The flavour is beautiful: apple, in the sense of homemade apple pie filling. A bit cinnamon. Possibly the teeniest bit of clove and allspice. Even the vaguest sense of the butteriness of pastry and cream followed up by the slightest citrusy tang of fresh apple.

A delicious beautifully balanced tea.

I began having chills. And sniffles. And cold feet. All a sure sign of something up and that it is time to take action before something even more unpleasant develops.

All this may have something to do with me sitting in a draughty place in front of the door to the outdoors repeatedly opening and closing.

So, clearly a moment for medicinal tea. Something powerful and effective for moments like these. Ginger sounded like a good idea.

I open the pouch. Peppermint. And that furniture polish lemongrass scent overpowering the ginger. Why does that lemongrass torment me so?

This tea reminds me of DT’s The Big Chill or Mother’s Little Helper— though I prefer MLH— or the sort of generic sleepy time teas: minty, green, medicinal, and somehow murky. With a bit of a bitter kick from the licorice.

The flavour is ok, I suppose. I don’t enjoy it particularly, but I am drinking this tea in hopes of getting the job done.

I will finish a cup or two of this tea while smothering myself in a fleecy blanket and hoping for warm feet and wellness.