Mom's Apple Pie

Oh wow. This tea is great! A great balance of apple & spice against the earthy green tea. I wish this tea was made all year long!

One of my favourite teas of all-time. It reminds me of a very light apple cider. Once or twice I have let it steep too long and it was still delicious! Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a fruity green tea :)

Smells amazing dry, the tart apple smell reminds me of apple Jolly Ranchers. After steeping, this tea definitely keeps its apple scent and flavor. I do notice a pastry-ish note sometimes, but it feels more like an apple cinnamon tea to me than an apple pie tea. I’ve had this almost every morning since buying it, it’s amazing

love this tea! smells like tart green apples with a hint of cinnamon. the taste is less cinnamon and more apple with a green tea aftertaste.
just lovely!

I had this one as a tea-to-go the other day. Can’t say I was too impressed, which makes me sad. I loved the smell of the loose tea though. I think that in order to get a proper idea of whether I like this one or not, I’d have to play around with the level of water temp, steeping time, agave and/or milk. I suspect that the reason why I wasn’t partial to this as a tea-to-go was that the water was WAY too hot and I left the tea bag in hoping to reuse it again later…. which resulted in a very pungent and slightly bitter tea which did not remind me in the slightest of my mom’s apple pie.

Will definitely have to retry this one!

Lovely!

I was almost afraid to try this tea, thinking it would be loaded with sweetener. When I saw that it wasn’t, I decided to order a package. It is SO nice! Even the artificial flavouring doesn’t ruin it. I’ve only had one cup, but so far, I think this will be one of my favourites. With my luck, it will be discontinued shortly.

Buying this was a pure act of nostalgia. This was my first loose leaf tea (along with Pumpkin Chai) back in Fall 2011! I used to own really fancy tins for both that have since gone the way of the dinosaur.. but the memories linger. Like the mistaken belief that maybe I didn’t need to buy so much food in undergrad afterall because tea was actually more satisfying, thank you (poor budget choices which still persist today). 100g of artificial candy green apple tea tin will sustain thee for 3 seconds!

Ok, so I didn’t originally love this one as I had yet to crack the “secret” of green tea in 2011 (don’t steep it in boiling temps or for long times). Years later, I’ve figured out my preferences (and kettles), and decided to steep under DT recommendations. Now, I too love this tea. Artificial apple candy aroma steeps into a wonderful baked green apple with vanilla/brown sugar and (non-barky) cinnamon notes. I remember this tea being dry, but not anymore apparently (I’m not using the m-word, but it’s a pie flavour so really it’s a bonus).

I’d get more of this (in all it’s artificial glory), actually. I also don’t understand why this wasn’t a seasonal fall staple after 2011, like Pumpkin Chai (but that’s probably the nostalgia talking).

Another returning tea for the fall!

This one is a total blast from the past, and feels reallllyyyy old school DAVIDsTEA to me. In fact, I’m not even 100% sure if I have a tasting note up for it because it might be so old that it’s from the time period where I wasn’t logging the teas here on Steepster that I had only tried in store samples of…

I do remember this one from when it was originally carried though! I don’t think I liked it very much at the time, and it’s still not really a tea that I enjoy/fits my flavour interests. However, what I appreciate about it so much is that it’s quite a simple/straight forward blend. The teas that launch now from DT are usually have ingredient compositions that are a lot more complicated than this blend. Sometimes that plays to a blend’s advantage, but I also think that it can occasionally over complicate teas and muddy up the flavours…

So what does this taste like? Well, it’s a lighter to more medium bodied profile and leans slightly thin tasting to me. The green tea is very present in the infusion, and is complimented by a soft baked apple type of note and hints of cinnamon. Even ignoring the green tea, which is an automatic turn off for me, I think I just find the flavour in this tea to be a little bit too thin for me to personally enjoy and I wish it had more of a buttery quality to sell the “pie” component of the blend.

That’s my personal impression though, and honestly if I wanted an apple/cinnamon profile with more flavour and no green tea there are other teas on the wall to suit that desire. So do I love this? No. Am I happy it’s back? Yes! Not everyone wants a super sweet tea or a tea with densely packed in and rich flavours – sometimes a soft, milder flavour is a “complete” profile to people and I think it’s important to carry teas for that type of tea drinker. So I’m glad that this very different feeling DT throwback blend is making a reappearance.

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.

Sweet and cinnaminny

Day 23/24 DIY Advent calendar. I like this tea but its not something I go crazy over. (When it came back I did unfortunately buy a whole tinzilla of it) So I’ll be having this for a while. Its a nice apple green tea that has a good cinnamon taste to it.