6444 Tasting Notes
Sipdown (335)
This was a free sample with my Happy Turtle Tea order and I’m quite enjoying it. It’s a great mix of smoke and I’m getting fruit. With that said, this is supposed to be smoke and chocolate and nut brittle. Now that I know that’s what I’m supposed to have, I can smell a nut brittle and get a caramelized sweetness. Either way, I’m enjoying it. I’m not getting chocolate though and I’m okay with that.
Latte Sipdown (337)
This had cute little mint chips in the mix and I guess that led me to believe this would be a silky/creamy mint flavor. Instead, there is a lot more menthol and a lot less chocolate and a lot less creaminess than I expected or wanted. So, as far as mint chocolate teas go, this is cute but not the best flavorwise.
Sipdown (338)
The first time I had this, it was fruity…like fruit leathers. I realized that was probably due to flavor contamination from my sister using my steeper for her fruity tea lemonades and having a tendency to leave the leaves in it for a while. So I gifted my sister that steeper and am now trying this for the first time without the contamination issue.
The first thing I noticed was this was very nutty. Is it supposed to be? Chocolate, nut, and clove. I don’t love the chocolate here because for me it’s more a tootsie roll chocolate flavor than a creamy chocolate bar.
I had this as a latte last night and was so thrown by how much this tasted like root beer. Root beer and butterbeer are not the same thing. Plus, there was a bunch of butterscotch chips in this blend so it was incredibly surprising when this was a whole lot of sarsaparilla. Good but not butterbeer.
For Channukah my sister got me two Palais des Thes samplers – one with straight teas and another with flavoured teas. I likely wouldn’t have got either for myself but now that I have them, I’m intrigued. Over the years, I’ve grown to really like straight blacks but I don’t usually buy them unless a store specifically focuses on straight teas. In my mind, Palais des Thes does flavoured stuff so I wouldn’t have thought to explore their blacks. Now I have a few to try though so that’s fun.
This tea is middle of the road for me. It’s smooth with the tiniest twang at times, but not astringent. It’s a little bready. It’s robust. And there is a muscatel/floral element, which I think is what’s reading metallic/coppery to me. It’s fine but like I said, middle of the road.
I actually made this last night. Then stupid me attempted to take my pills with the hot tea. I can sip hot tea but taking enough to swallow pills was a bad choice. Anyways, in that one hot mouthful, I got a lot of rooibos flavor and not much else – which seems to be consistent for other rooibos based Pudtea blends.
I woke up late today and got stuck in a class. I didn’t get a chance to grab water so I finished the bottle I had by my bed and decided to just finish this off as well since it was here. Cold, its still rooibos heavy but with some tartness that could maybe be blueberry if you try hard enough to picture it as such. Nothing says cheesecake though and really its not a great blueberry either, in my opinion.
