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I am not a huge fan of earl grey tea (unless it’s a latte) or unless it has other flavourings (lavender, lemon) but was intriguied to try this one. It’s beautiful! It’s quite astringent without being flat, which I like in an earl grey. The grapefruit comes forward right away, then there’s the bergamot flavour, but then there’s a subtle sweetness that I think is mandarin after that.

So it’s quite layered! I drink it black but I’m not sure how it would do in a latte, but I would be curious. A welcome edition to my cupboard and something I would love to share with my mum, who loves an earl grey and who often complains you can only smell tea flavours, not actually taste them.

I got this as part of a Christmas gift from my mum, and it’s quite lovely. It’s a lot like a chai blend (it has many ingredients of a chai). It tastes warm and spicy, but then it’s got this lift and it feels light and peppery and not quite as heavy as some chai blends can.

It’s black tea without being bitter or too astringent, but it still tastes like tea. If I really want to concentrate, I can pick up a lot of the flavours listed on the ingredient list, but otherwise, I just enjoy it. A welcome edition to my cupboard. <3

So, I bought this tea a long time ago, but when I opened the bag it smelled so strongly that I shut it up in a tin and left it for a long time. It smelled heavily of cherry candy, like, syrupy-sweet and the scent was so heavy I felt like it would give me a headache.

So, today, I finally tried it! And it was just okay. It tastes sort of like cherry, but as it cools, it tastes like soap. It also doesn’t really taste enough like black tea to feel like tea, it tastes like tea in a bottle you might buy at a petrol station (which I guess is its own type of tea!) but not the type of tea I was expecting. Maybe it’ll grow on me, maybe I’ll like it, but for now, I remain skeptical.

I bought this because my area of Canada has decided that Twining’s Orange Pekoe doesn’t exist and will not be available to me in any shape or form whatsoever.

This, to me, is the worst kind of tea, but when I asked friends about it, they said they all drank and enjoyed it. I think the best way to drink this tea is to dip it in boiling water, remove the tea bag and then add milk and honey. Anything else, letting it steep for a longer amount of time just makes it turn bitter, black and totally undrinkable.

I can tell that this type of tea is made with the leftover tea leaves from the drying / roasting process, which is totally fine. I am not above cheap and cheerful tea bags, but this doesn’t have any flavour other than tannins. Once it starts to cool, it becomes acrid and I end up abandoning my cup with prejudice.

I haven’t tried it with milk and honey yet, it might even be nice, but it’s not my cup of tea, y’know? Shame, as I have a box of like 50 tea bags. I’ll probably end up drinking them at a glacial pace with lemon honey any time I’m sick (and therefore can’t taste very much).

This tea is so sweet and so floral. The blend has an almost overpowering smell of roses and flowers. When I read the ingredients I saw that black currants was an ingredient, which I was then able to taste, but any time I drink this tea the thing I can taste is a lychee kind of sweetness, that almost sugary, syrupy flavour of sugar that comes from fruit.

It’s hard to know when to drink this, because it has such a distinctive flavour it’s hard to pair with my regular breakfast fare, but then any time I drink it, I enjoy it. It feels odd to say, but it tastes almost better cold, it gets a little less sugary and a little more astringent and vegetal, but not in a bad way.

This tea is like … perfectly acceptable and mid. It’s sweet, not tooth-achingly sweet or melted sprinkle sweet like DAVID’s Tea sometimes can be. It is not the finest vanilla tea blend, or the most developed or most delicate of teas, but it totally works. However, if you were expecting any other vanilla flavours, don’t, it’s just vanilla. I feel like this would be really nice as a latte, but I haven’t tried it that way yet.

This is like a perfectly acceptable vanilla ice cream flavour. It is not the super cheap ‘frozen vanilla dessert’ but neither is it the fanciest vanilla ice cream to ever exist. It’s okay! Would I go out of my way to buy it again? Probably not. Do I like it and enjoy it anyway? Yes. Would I recommend it? If you think you’ll like it, sure. Other reviews are much more glowing than mine, but it’s a solid tea.

This is a really nice blend! The only caveat is it is expensive. It has very attractive curling leaves that open up beautifully when brewed and it has a very rich, layered malty, dark chocolate sort of flavour. After that, there’s a gentle sweetness that’s mellow and quite warm. It’s a subtly flavoured tea, but I like that, I think it suits this blend very well. Compared to other David’s Tea blends with flavours, this one is a lot less sickly sweet and much more well-developed.

Hot, this tea is magical. It’s warm, full-bodied and really strong.There are chais that are more herbaceous, more floral, and then there are chais that are more peppery, and this is the latter. This tea is smooth and not sweet at all. However, once it cools, it becomes really bitter and astringent. The body of the tea also becomes sort of powdery as it cools, which is not my favourite. I don’t love to drink my teas with milk, but this might be better served as an actual chai rather than black, which is how I take it.

This tea is the greatest of all time. It has so many layers and is so delicious. It’s warm and spicy, a little astringent but hard to oversteep.

It smells so good but then you can actually taste so many of the flavours, the spices, the aroma really opens up. Almond, amaretto, marzipan, brown sugar, warmth, orange zest, all of its pieces are there.

It’s so funny because I’d make it if I knew I was going to have a hard day at work, to fortify me before I left, but I would also make it on a day off to celebrate my freedom. Stands up well to re-steeping and is something you can appreciate either by individual flavour or altogether. Love this tea and order it in bulk, obviously, lol.

I’m conflicted about this tea! I enjoyed it so much at first. It is warm and has a nice coconut flavour. The coconut oil that happens when the little flakes are steeped means that the tea becomes sort of buttery and creamy in a very palatable way. But then, as it cools, the coconut oil becomes…very oily, and then it sucks. So I would love this tea and then be totally sick of it for a long time, there was no in between, really.