484 Tasting Notes
Sample from Tea in Spoon’s stash sale. Thank you!
This tastes like strawberries, hibiscus, and artificial butter flavoring. It’s a really strange combination. I don’t think I particularly like it, but it’s not terrible either.
Flavors: Artificial, Butter, Hibiscus, Strawberry
Sample from Tea in Spoon’s stash sale. Thank you!
This is quite good. Sweet raspberry, white chocolate, and the green wood flavor of green rooibos. It’s like a white chocolate raspberry truffle, with the added flavor of rooibos. I quite like green rooibos so even though it strikes me as a slightly unusual flavor combination, I did enjoy it.
Flavors: Green Wood, Raspberry, Sweet, White Chocolate
Sample from Tea in Spoon’s stash sale.
So I’m not actually certain what turmeric tastes like, but I’m liking this blend. It’s savory-sweet with a nice kick of spice from the ginger. The mango is mild, but it seems to bring the other flavors together. I’m getting an unfamiliar flavor that I’m assuming is the turmeric. I’m not sure how to describe it. It makes me think of Indian food, and looking it up on wikipedia, that is one of the places its used. This is definitely something enjoyable and different. I’ll have to try some other turmeric teas. I’ve seen a few others out there that I’ve been curious about.
Try Rishi’s Turmeric Ginger tea. I find that one to be nice. A little spicy but I like that sort of thing.
Thanks for the suggestion! How strong of a licorice flavor does that one have? I don’t really enjoy licorice root.
I don’t remember it being overly licorice. It is there. It is blended fairly well in that it is not an overt flavor but it is something you can tell on your throat. It is the 3rd ingredient listed but again I don’t remember it feeling overbearing. If you want to set up a swap, I can send you a sample of it just to see how you like it.
Sure, send me a message and I’ll see what I have that you might like. We’ll probably need to wait til mid-August since I’m going on vacation soon.
I love allspice in chai, so I decided to try it on it’s own. It has a pretty good flavor. It’s sweet with a mild and complex spiciness. It reminds me somewhat of clove, but sweeter and much milder. It did have a bit of an odd mouthfeel. It almost felt a bit slimy. It wasn’t bad, but I definitely prefer it in a blend. I’m working out my own chai recipe, which is rather fun. I think mine is going to end up being something halfway between masala chai and mulling spices: allspice, cassia cinnamon, clove, and ginger.
Flavors: Clove, Spices, Sweet
This isn’t for me. It has a mild, lemon-pepper flavor that reminds me a bit of cardamom. It tastes a bit medicinal and unpleasant to me.
Flavors: Cardamom, Lemon, Pepper, Spicy
I really want to try a sample of this! Elderflower tea is actually on my list for my next tea purchase. Would you be willing to trade samples with me? I’ve got DAVID’s Coconut Ice and Three6Tea’s Oh Canada (spicy ginger, maple, and rooibos).
Hmmm. That makes me wonder about the Elder Flowers sold by Mountain Rose Herbs, if they taste similarly or not. I’ve ever had Elder Flowers before.
@ Arby Robilliard: I’d be happy to send you some! I’d be interested in trying both of those. I also picked up some allspice, ginger, and rose petals if you’d like. Or I can just include a little more of the Elderflower. I bought an ounce and I only took a teaspoon to sample, so there’s quite a bit left.
@KiwiDelight: I don’t know. I’ve only had them once before in a blend, myself.
Sample from Tea in Spoons’ stash sale. Thank you!
This tastes decidedly like cantaloupe. I really enjoy cantaloupe, but I had a hunch that it was likely be a bit too sweet for me in tea. And this definitely is. It might work for blending, but I find it a bit too sweet on its own.
I wonder whether it would work with a bit of orange juice to cut down the sweetness. Or a bit of hibiscus?
I’ll probably do a bit of experimenting. Ginger might also be interesting.
hmm, ginger. Yes, I am looking forward to hearing how it goes with your experiments.
I’m bumping up the rating on this because it really makes an excellent latte. I think the milk actually helped bring out the pear flavor. I’m not really sure how that works, but it does.
Sample from Liquid Proust. Thank you!
This has a pleasant Jasmine flavor, but the Oolong tastes like a bitter green tea to me even with a couple splashes of cold water, and I can’t taste the coconut at all. If I were more careful of the time and temperature, it might taste better, but I’ve tried enough Jasmine tea that I like to not be interested in bothering.
Flavors: Bitter, Green, Jasmine
Sample from Tea in Spoons’ Stash Sale.
This is pretty decent. It’s very lightly flavored. The ginger is most prominent, but it’s not super strong, and it’s followed a light herbaceous peach flavor. It’s just unique enough to be interesting, but I don’t know how I feel about the moringa. I’m noticing something a bit odd in the aftertaste.
Sample from Tea in Spoons’ stash sale. Thank you!
This is very sweet and fruity, as if it were a fruit juice rather than a tea. I don’t know what guava tastes like, but this has the sort of flavor I associate with tropical fruits. I can definitely taste mango, and maybe some pineapple as well. This is definitely delicious.
Flavors: Mango, Pineapple, Sweet, Tropical
Yeah, I really like this one. I’ve eaten a lot of guavas and this doesn’t taste anything like the fruit. Still the tea is good.
Good to know. I’ve never tried one, so I didn’t know how this compared. I do like mango’s though, and that’s what this one tastes like to me.
yeah, it is kind of mango/ pineappley. I haven’t had it in a while. Time to dig this one out.
