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I don’t know.

I’ve had this tea before and I remember it being lovely, so my rating reflects that too. Today, there’s a sort of a bitter aftertaste going on here. What is that?

Based on today’s cup, I would not buy again. Did I not brew long enough? Has the coconut gone off? Is there something else going on here that I am unaware of?

I am going to recommend this tea only based on memory of it being good. Hope I am not mistaken.

This tea gets the job done. For that, 100%. I’ve been staying up far too late, so I am drinking this in hopes of getting to bed at a decent time and starting my body on that new rhythm. Valerian, yay!

Based on one of the tea blogs, I think it was Marzipan who reviewed it, I signed up for a month subscription trial of Wicked Tea. Marzipan had given the company a pretty good rating based on her experience with her two months of tea. It is a Canadian company, so the dollar value is good without being killed by conversion and shipping. It is a local company and I like to support small and local. The teas looked like a good and interesting variety. The pouches appeared to be a reasonable size, far more than a sample, and I love the see-through window on one side of the zip pouch so that you can see the leaf. From the looks of things, they looked like they were doing a great job and were giving things their best shot and I like to support that too. And finally, the first month is advertised to be free, but you pay for shipping.

I am a bit confused about this last part because I received my Wicked Tea subscription envelope of teas and aside from the teas, I received an invoice billing for twenty some odd dollars for Free Monthly Trial. I sent them an email inquiring about this a few days ago because, well, confusing, but I have received no response from them yet.

Perhaps it is a free trial IF you then subscribe. If that is the case, then it should be clearly stated. Otherwise, it is misleading. Because I feel somewhat misled.

Anyway, I am still making my way through the teas which are good and good value. That said, I have not yet decided whether I am enchanted enough to commit to another month or three.

Ok, to the tea now.

The dry leaf has long golden shreds of pumpkin in among the Sri Lankan black tea.

I really like this tea. Really. Initially I put off trying it because I thought that it was going to be one of those overloaded with cinnamon spice market strong and ugly black teas that seem to be prevalent this season, but no.

The cinnamon is gentle and nicely settled amongst the other pumpkin pie spice. A mellow addition to the pumpkin flavour.

I drink my tea straight up, so there is only tea in my cup.

I would like perhaps a bit of caramel in this tea or perhaps a bit of cream. Both would be a improvement, but it is already pretty good. I am pleasantly surprised.

I think this is making its way into being one of my favourite pumpkin teas that I have tried so far this season.

Is there white tea in this tea?

David’s has this thing where the flavoured white teas contain like a teaspoon of white tea in a bucket of fruit mix. And yet the cost of the blend is elevated as if the tea is not just trail mix or a variation thereof but actually white tea. Right then. I just had to get that off my chest.

That said, this was one of my favourites of their spring or summer 2015 line.

I like the light rose vanilla thing going on here. A good balance of flavours which doesn’t taste much of perfume. There is also a bit of bitter undercurrent, which I suppose is meant to provide substance to these light layers. Is it chicory? Dandelion? Plus cinnamon? I need to review the ingredients list again. A familiar taste in David’s teas which I often find repugnant, but here it is fine.

Mind you, I steeped this very briefly a few minutes after boiling.

Because I enjoyed this so much initially, I’ve been saving the small bit that I have left because I think it is no longer available. I am enjoying this cup and will enjoy the next, but the tea is just not as glorious as it was in memory. I had initially been kicking myself that I hadn’t bought another bit of this tea, but I think I’ll get over it.

So. I am truly not a fan of mint, generally. I do not seek out mint. Ever. That said, this tea arrived in one of my tea subscription packets and well, what to do.

Having said all that, this tea is just awesome. Each sip has two distinct levels of flavour: the initial chocolate mint hit, like the square chocolates, followed by a mint vanilla with the slightest bit of chocolate trailing behind. The rooibos adds a fullness of flavour to it all.

A lovely cup. I will enjoy this tea until it is all gone.

As you may know already, I am not a big fan of over-cinnamoned tea. Not when cinnamon drowns out everything else. This tea was included in a sampler. I would likely not seek out a tea called cinnamon anything.

This tea is ok. Strong cinnamon hit—so much so that I feel as if my taste buds have mostly been killed off after drinking half a cup. A bit of ginger. A bit of rooibos, that is to say that the spice completely masks the rooibos flavour here and rooibos is just the carrier of the cinnamon and the ginger. As I said, it is ok. Maybe fabulous if you are big fan of cinnamon.

A good fall and winter tea. I can see myself perhaps being a wee bit happier with this tea when it is snowing outside and I am inside snuggled up with a fleecy blanket.

This one of the teas that I keep coming back to when I am in the mood for rooibos, but not something too flavoured or too sweet.

I didn’t have high hopes for this cup as the dry leaf I had left only had one caramel bit, which I am not certain that my teaspoon managed to grab, in it.

Nonetheless, I steeped it at lower temperature, like I do with all rooibos and honeybush, and here I am with a lovely cup of caramel tea. There is a bit of sweetness supported by the woody heft of rooibos.

I like it. I am pleasantly surprised that this tea does not necessarily require the caramel bits in the leaf to be good. Of course, I would seek out more caramel bits if possible.

Nice.

Yes. A lovely tea.

The spice blend is an enjoyable medley of flavours. My issue with many chai teas is that the cinnamon comes through like a freight train and everything else barely trails along. That is not the case here.

The first time I drank this tea, a few days ago, I thought gingerbread. Today too, that is the association I am having: gingerbread, but more the loaf rather than the cookies. There may be the slightest bit of chocolate going on here, but I would not know it is here if I hadn’t read that it was in the ingredients. Toffee, yes, and dense ginger spice cake on that beautiful black tea base.

A lovely cup for a cold day.

Two things about tea joy.

My enjoyment of any rooibos or honeybush tea has gone up exponentially since I discovered steeping it at a lower temperature. So, boil the water, add a couple of spoonfuls of cold water, and then steep your tea. This trick saves you from the sour wood thing that happens when you use boiling water.

How much I like this tea depends on how many meringue or white chocolate bits I have in have in the spoonful I brew. More white hats, more better. This particular steeping had more hats, so better. Fewer white hats and it tastes like thin nutmeg-flavoured rooibos with a teeny bit of sweetness.

I am enjoying this cup, but it is not love.

I like this one a lot. I like that my sample has a good number of strawberry bits scattered throughout the tea. I like the smell of both the dry leaf and the steeped tea. I like the creamy strawberry flavour of the tea itself. Just the right amount of strawberry with a lovely black tea base to carry it along. I like the scent of my empty cup when my tea is far too quickly finished.

Good stuff. I could do with more of this.