Super Starling! Send Message

If you like orange/blood orange, I have THE EXACT THING FOR YOU. Come here. Try this.
The issue with people creating teas online is that they can’t really TRY them. Things can get kind of unbalanced and weird.
That’s what happened here. This is a REALLY ORANGE TEA.
I think that an expert teamaker wouldn’t’ve made it this way.
Then again, the Firefly crew does aim to misbehave, so maybe that’s the idea?
The tea is, overall, very, very orange. Then there’s a chocolate aftertaste on the tongue. And a tiny bit of nut that’s like “hey. I’m here too, for some reason. Sup, guys?”
I don’t regret purchasing this tea. However, I don’t think I’ll purchase it again.

SPICY! It’s about 90% cinnamon. If you do not like cinnamon, do not pass go.
When you smell it, it smells a bit like a chai.
When you sip it, it’s got a cream cheese sort of flavor, as well.
I don’t think that, if you blindfolded me, I’d say “carrot cake” or “cheesecake,” but it does taste good.
[EDIT]
I always read other people’s reviews after mine (so I’m not influenced by theirs). One of them recommended adding honey, which I think definitely rounds out the flavor nicely. Do that. Yum. I bumped it up a few points.

I bought a bunch of samples from Adagio’s Fandom Collection because I wanted the tins. I did read the descriptions of what was in the tea, mind you, but I must come clean about the tins.
I have absolutely no clue what I am going to do with them when the tea is gone. I should not be permitted a credit card.
The Bucky Barnes tea is chocolate and nuts because… the Winter Soldier wears a lot of black and is crazy? (???)
Why apples? Because apples are… American? And Bucky… used to be?
Or did the person who made this just find a bunch of tasty ingredients and say “yummy, just like Sebastian Stan’s face”?
Is there any logic here?
REGARDLESS, this tastes great. It’s like a nutty, chocolatey brownie.
I would want this after skiing.
Did the Winter Soldier ever go skiing in his Russian winters? Probably not.
…
PS — When I went to type “Roasted Nuts” into the flavors, Roasted Chicken came up as a flavor option. If anyone has a tea that tastes like roasted chicken, please let me know, because I am dying to try that.

Upon re-sipping, I’m bumping this tea up a few points.
I typically wonder how much crap could get thrown into a tea to make it interesting, but this one’s good exactly as it is. It’s a nice, earthy black & white tea with some mango in it for a kick. (Is this celebrating the Hawaii part of Obama?)
I would liken this tea to a sturdy log cabin in the woods. The Hawaiian woods, I guess.

David’s Tea, a Canadian company, has a delightful approach to Spanish:
‘In Costa Rica, “pura vida” means kicking back and enjoying life.’
When I first saw that, I laughed. A lot. Then I looked it up, and it turns out that Pura Vida is, in fact, the “Hakuna Matata” of Costa Rica.
That’s an actual thing.
Anyway. The tea.
This is a fun, tropical-fruity affair. It mostly tastes like pineapple, mango, and Green Apple Jolly Ranchers. It’s got chamomile in it, too, which is unusual.
HOT ISN’T RECOMMENDED:
I like this tea, but it is not “bae,” as the kids are saying these days. There’s something kind of off about it. I don’t know if it’s the chamomile, or the Sour Apple, or some kind of turned-pineapple funkiness, but there’s an edge to this that’s icky.
TRY IT COLD:
I threw my half-drunk mug in the freezer for a bit to cool it down, thinking it’d be better “iced.” (I was out of ice cubes. This was my solution).
Cold, it’s DELIGHTFUL. It’s somehow sweeter and less bitter. (How does that work? Help me out, science.)
I probably wouldn’t buy it, because it still has a funky Jolly Rancher aftertaste. Still it’s a surprisingly vast improvement.
A nice thing to drink by the pool while reading trash fiction. I mean, uh, the classics. Just me and Gravity’s Rainbow on the Kindle and absolutely nothing written for teenagers.

This tea is like getting punched in the face by someone wearing a 1980s neon outfit and a side ponytail. Its bright, in-your-face berry-and-candy flavor is aggressive.
While I am enjoying this cup, I can’t imagine buying an entire packet of this tea. It’s a cassette mix tape full of feelings. I can’t just drink it while doing other things. It’s very demanding.

Oooh! Pleasant surprise! This was a free sample I got with my last order and whoa! Hey now!
Yum. I don’t drink much herbal tea because I love caffeine, but this is something I might buy a bag of.
Let’s discuss.
It’s a cute pink/coral color and smells like nutty caramel corn. The taste is caramel, nutty, and fruity. There are deeper nut tastes, plus something like a popcorn middle and an apple on top.
It’s pretty “girly.” This is not your serious business-suit tea.
It’s comforting yet fun, like a beagle puppy.

Put this in the gravity steeper for about 5 minutes, and love it. Pu-erh is my new favorite thing.
This is a super-deep tea that is, well, dark chocolate and orange. It is PRECISELY AS ADVERTISED. You know those chocolate oranges you smash against the wall and eat at Easter time? This is basically that.
And makes a great dessert substitute.
I imagine this tea to be something a woods-witch would give you to distract you while they applied a spell to your broken leg.

This tea is a funky, sassy vixen. If it were going to be a character, it’d be Six, the best friend on Blossom. Sweet, and young, and loudmouthed, and a teeny bit edgy, in a manageable way.
This has raspberry, creaminess, and something sort of tangy that lingers on the tongue. The tang (I think it’s the rooibos) balances out the sugar blast of the rest of it.
Flavorful caffeine-free teas are a great thing to have on hand when you’ve already gone far too hard on tea and soda and are a bit shaky. Speaking from experience. The experience of today. Pretty zipped-up, here.