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“I unfortunately find this one to be lacking flavor. The color is beautiful, but the flavor is quite light. When I overleaf, there’s more flavor, but it’s still mostly empty. I get some fruitiness...” Read full tasting note
“I love the name of this tea, even if the two things don’t seem to go together. I don’t think I’ve ever thought of witches and then thought watermelon or vice versa. This cup is like drinking...” Read full tasting note
“Nice fruit tisane! I normally don’t enjoy fruit tisanes but this one was fairly nice. I liked the watermelon and taro flavors but it’s really only good iced and I’m a hot tea girl.” Read full tasting note
“Steep: 3 tsp 212°F 5 min kati loose tea system 12oz Tasting Notes: Dry Leaf Smell: watermelon jolly rancher Steeped Tea Smell: watermelon jolly rancher Flavor: watermelon jolly rancher,...” Read full tasting note
A fun and playful, caffeine-free blend that’s perfect for the whole family, tastes just like watermelon candy AND turns a wicked purple when steeped, who could ever resist Witchy Watermelon? With watermelon flavour, purple sweet potato and orange witch hats, this enchanting brew basically screaaaams Halloween! Not to be melondramatic or anything, but just one sip and you’ll find yourself under its spell…
What makes it great
Steeps a wicked purple that’s almost as enchanting as it tastes…
Fun and playful blend that’s great for kids too!
Sip it hot or iced—this tea goes both ways.
How it tastes
Like a watermelon candy that’s sweet and irresistible.
Purple sweet potato, Rosehip, Apple, Witch hat sprinkle (sugar, rice flour, cocoa butter, thickener tragacanth, colour carotenes, food colouring from beetroot juice concentrate, flavouring), Melon (melon, sucrose, citric acid), Natural sweet watermelon flavouring with stevia extract.
DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.
I love the name of this tea, even if the two things don’t seem to go together. I don’t think I’ve ever thought of witches and then thought watermelon or vice versa. This cup is like drinking watermelon bubblegum. Or maybe drinking water in the first five minutes of chewing a piece of watermelon bubblegum. Watermelon Bubblegum would be a more fitting name, but that would have zero to do with Halloween aka the best holiday ever. I’m surprised that this is so fruity and doesn’t really fade into a sour finish like a lot of over fruit tisanes do. It pretty much stays the same flavor, just more faint in the finish. I kinda want to tell my tiny roommates about this blend, but then they are going to suck it all down and I’ll never get another cup. What to do, what to do.
Nice fruit tisane! I normally don’t enjoy fruit tisanes but this one was fairly nice. I liked the watermelon and taro flavors but it’s really only good iced and I’m a hot tea girl.
Flavors: Honey, Melon, Sugar, Taro Root, Watermelon
Steep:
3 tsp
212°F
5 min
kati loose tea system 12oz
Tasting Notes:
Dry Leaf Smell: watermelon jolly rancher
Steeped Tea Smell: watermelon jolly rancher
Flavor: watermelon jolly rancher, sweet
Body: Medium
Aftertaste: sweet
Liquor: translucent light pink-purple, cloudy
Resteep:
Surprisingly that worked!
Second Resteep:
did not work
Rating: 3/4 leaves
Leaf system:
1=Bleh! not again if it were free
2=Acceptable, if it were free or there were limited other tea options
3=I might purchase this tea from time to time, or select it while out
4=A staple in our cupboard from now on, I will purchase and keep purchasing
YouTube Review https://youtu.be/LoMvqIERrNc and https://youtube.com/shorts/BoJz4DMOqmM
TikTok Review https://www.tiktok.com/circuitswan/video/7144482921716550958 and https://www.tiktok.com/circuitswan/video/7144513926980455723
Blog Post https://amazonv.blogspot.com/2022/09/davidstea-loose-leaf-herbal-tisane.html
Twitter Post https://twitter.com/CircuitSwan/status/1571371102991192065
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It’s hard to believe we’re already at the point of the year where Halloween teas have been released but, welp, here we are. This is one of two new Halloween blends that DT has put out this year – personally, my favourite of the two.
As I think most people on Steepster know by now, Halloween is my personal favourite holiday – and typically I go prreeetttyyyy all out in my Halloween celebrations. As such, I’ve tasted A LOT of different Halloween inspired teas over the years – many just okay and many that were absolutely mind blowing. With all that in mind, I really wanted to challenge myself when thinking about the kind of Halloween inspired tea that I would want to make. I wanted a flavour that I had never seen before in a Halloween tea, but I also know that the “vibe” is just so incredibly important when it comes to holiday themed blends – Halloween in particular. So if I was going to take a stab at an ‘unusual’ Halloween flavour I knew I would need (pun intended) “infuse” it with some Halloween spirit.
So. Witchy Watermelon…
The taste is pretty straight forward for this one, and that’s definitely the point. Picture watermelon candies in a Jolly Rancher style and you’ll be pretty spot on with how this steeps. It’s juicy, sweet, very coating on the palate. I figured that it was actually kind of weird how few Halloween blends tend to have this level of fruity flavour given that fruity candies are typically handed out when trick or treating prettttyyyyy equally to things like chocolate bars and caramel sweets – which are way over represented in Halloween inspired tea blends. So why couldn’t watermelon be a Halloween flavour!? Plus, it’s good but it’s also sooooo good iced/cold brewed and I love a good versatile tea blend.
To keep it grounded in that Halloween vibe, I played around with the visual of the blend quite a lot. Purple sweet potato is an ingredient that DT has used a couple times now with blends like Maui Madness and Pink Papayadise because of it’s beautiful colour, and so this blend is just PACKED with purple sweet potato. This gives it a lovely pinky purple colour when steeped but, as importantly (if not more so), it means the dry leaf of the tea is SUPER purple looking. That alone wouldn’t necessarily make this Halloween themed, but with the addition of these gorgeous orange witch hat Sprinkles it creates this very contrasting orange and purple dry leaf visual that just screams old school/traditional Halloween colours. Plus, y’know, witches.
I’m excited to see what people think of this tea and if the balance of unconventional Halloween flavours with old school Halloween vibes has the same payoff for them that is does for me!
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
