Decaf Chocolate Raspberry Waffle

Overboard Traveling tea box

This is the last tea I’m trying in this tea box before packing it all up and sending it off to the next recipient (which I think will be tomorrow – but I want to add a couple more things first). I wasn’t expecting that much from this, to be honest. First, it’s a decaf and sometimes decaf black tea can taste a bit funky and 2nd, I’m always worried about astringency in black teas. This doesn’t taste like decaf. The first sip unsweetened, I tasted a bit of something bready and a tiny bit of raspberry, but no real chocolate to speak of. Sweetened is another story! Really tasty, mostly raspberry, but then the chocolate comes in and it’s creamy without adding milk or cream. I feel a bit greedy keeping 2 of the Butiki blends in this box, but I love that it’s a black dessert blend I can have at night and there’s really not much left. Also, the whole company going away – thing.

Overboard TTB.

This is really good. I’m definitely tasting a fruity flavor, and notes of waffle or pastry, as well as a hint of chocolate here or there. There’s also a floral note that reminds me of rose. The flavoring is subtle and blends so well with the base tea that it’s hard to decide where one begins and the other ends.

Yum yum yum!! An absolutely perfect evening treat!! I’ve been drinking this the last few nights with a touch of milk and a teaspoon of rock sugar and wowie talk about satisfying my sweet tooth! This tastes similar to raspberry truffle but with a slight waffle aftertaste and little to no caffeine!! Call me obsessed but I’ve already bought another bag for when this one runs out

This didn’t knock my socks off quite the way I’d expected, but that is mostly my fault for ordering a chocolate raspberry waffle tea when I really just wanted a waffle tea. I’m not a huge fan of chocolate and raspberry together in flavored things (although I’d take fresh raspberries with actual chocolate any day), so this wasn’t ever going to be my favorite. I did get a waffle taste, but after multiple sips, I mostly just kept noticing the cocoa powder type of flavor. It would be interesting to try this base tea on its own since I don’t know how much flavor it is contributing.

Thanks to VariaTea for letting me snag a cup of this before passing it on! I assumed it would be more or less like Raspberry Truffle, and I think I was about correct. There was a bit of a bakey flavour (presumably waffle), with a bit of raspberry (not as strong as Red Queen Cupcake, but more like Raspberry Truffle), and the base was fairly mild – a divergence from RT in which I found the base rather strong.

Overall, meh. I knew this wasn’t a tea for me, and I’m glad I didn’t get my own. It’s not bad, but not overly special to my tastebuds.

Wow, I actually get to be the first to write a tasting note on this tea?! Rad!

Waffles?! Seriously?! How do you get waffles into tea?! I clearly taste waffles in this tea! My mind is a little blown. At the beginning of the sip I get waffles. It isn’t until the aftertaste that I’m picking up on the raspberry, but I can’t pick out the chocolate. Maybe it is blending in to create a base note type flavor. This is all without sugar. When I add sugar, it changes a bit. I get raspberry first, then the waffle joins and finally I get the chocolate mingling with the fruit. Adding cream changes it again! I get a slight tartness like what raspberries have with almost a grassy edge, but it’s like the tartness without the flavor I was getting before. The chocolate is muted again, coming out at the back of the sip right behind the waffle that also peeks through at the end. This tea is such a trip! I’m loving the decaf aspect since I desperately want to drink tea in the evening, but sleep is a pretty important thing in my life too. This tea is really well done. Even the Butiki teas that I have tried that I wasn’t wowed by were really well crafted and balanced.

If you can, give this tea a go before it’s gone!