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This is a limited edition tea from the Tea Haus for Valentine’s Day 2012. On a whim I decided to order it and give it a try. I like chocolate and I like cinnamon and I like black tea, so why not, right?

It’s a unique flavour. There are definitely chocolate notes to the tea but nothing dominating. The black tea flavour is still prominent and the cinnamon wasn’t strong when sipping it black. Curious, I added a half teaspoon of sugar and pow! There was the cinnamon. Amazingly though it played well with the other notes, making a really interesting and delicious cup. I can’t summarize the flavour easily since each note is definitely there waiting to be discovered. I am intrigued and curious what others will think of this one!

I’m not rating it yet because I honestly can’t decide where it is going to fall on the scale!

Confession time. I got this for 4.99 at an Asian market, solely because I loved the tin. I’d gone in looking for cheaper teas to use in the bath, and this one caught my eye for the container more than anything else. I do love a good oolong though, so I was hopeful.

When I opened it, the tea was in a plastic bag inside the tin. Once the bag was pulled out (carefully so not as many leaves got broken) and the tea was in the tin, it was definitely a full container.

The tea itself is very roasted. I did a steep with it tonight and the first steep was totally a roast flavour, but when I added some sugar honeyed notes came out.

Since I’m not a roasted oolong fan, I passed on doing other steeps. However if anyone out there is a fan of roasted, this is definitely worth a try if you spy it around.

Thank you to Indigobloom for a sample of this one! I’ve been eying it for a while, and so I’m really glad I got to try it. Especially since I didn’t enjoy it that much. It tasted to me like dissolved Vitamin C tablets with a dash of grapefruit juice. I didn’t get any lime to it, and I definitely didn’t find any kiwi flavour. I added some sugar with took away the bite of the “grapefruit”, but then it became a bland slightly sweetened lemon flavour, which did nothing to make me crave it again.

Was a bad bad girl tonight and had this one again, as a latte, but using 35% cream instead of milk. There are no words except for . . . NOM!

Got this one as a sample from Indigobloom with whom I had a GREAT tea-addictive Saturday. The tea is lovely, I had it with dinner and the flavour was strong enough to power over the extreme garlic in my meal and still allow me to taste the fruity notes. I had it hot and loved it, and now I’m really curious how it would taste iced since both notes state they prefer it that way!

Okay, I’m pretty sure I’m addicted to this tea. It’s just so deliciously creamy and light and exactly what I was hoping for when I ordered it. This time I did two steeps of the leaves, and the first cup was lovely but the second? Perfection. The tea was light and mellow and while the lemon cream flavour was definitely there as well, they worked together and yet individually to make for one amazing cup of tea. Now I’m wondering what a third steep would bring me . . .

Oh yum! This tea smells divine. Totally and utterly like lemon cream heaven. I got ten new teas in this shipment and this was the one that screamed to be tried first.

It brews to a lovely golden colour, and smells as lovely as the leaves. First sip and I enjoyed it muchly. The cream and lemon are there but so is the tea flavour. If anything I’d like the lemon to be a tad stronger, so I may try a longer steep next time to see what happens.

Halfway through the cup I’m still enjoying this, with the lemon cream being the main body of the tea. The tea itself seems to be in the first and afternotes, but still it all blends seemlessly into a lovely cup. I can see myself enjoying this one in the evenings or on those days I just need something to relax with. Definitely a keeper and I wish I’d ordered more than 25g now! Especially since I see myself sharing this one tomorrow at the Tea Guild.

I’m not sure if I have a bad brew or if it’s purely in my head after the last comments about this tea, but tonight’s mug is not as lovely as always. It’s more malty and less fruity. Just more . . . blah. I’m going to leave the rating as is for now in the hopes that I just messed it up somehow.

I have no idea why, but dang I love this tea. I get absolutely no mint from it, but there is definitely something here that mellows out the citrus in a way that makes me love it. There’s hints of grapefruit and orange, but nothing dominates for me. I made it hot tonight, but it is lovely iced as well. Tonight’s cup I added just a dash of sugar and it was exactly what I needed for my goodnight cuppa.

Did a full pot of this one tonight since I was feeling lazy and didn’t want to have to do multiple trips to the kettle. This tea is delicate, almost extremely so. I suspect that that’s why the use the word precious in the name.

Dry the leaves look pretty average, with chunks of various things added, although none looked extremely peach-y. Once brewed the leaves were still not completely unfurled, which surprised me. I’m not one to do a multiple steep on non-oolong teas, but I may try with this one just to see.

The smell of the tea is definitely peach, and a lovely version of the fruit. I drank this one unsweetened, and didn’t once feel that sweetener was needed. First cup was definitely a lovely light peach flavour in a light yellow tea. The peach was more prominent as the cup cooled.

Second cup (from the same pot) was less peachy, I’m not sure if it was because I’d become accustomed to the flavour or something else, but it was definitely less.

Third cup I let cool, and there was the peach again. I think I’ll do an iced tea next time with what I have left of this one. The peach I hoped for when I got this one is definitely more prominent in cooler temperatures.