Sweet Almond Green

I’m not rating this tea because I see there is a good amount of people who do enjoy it but for me I’d be dragging that bar all the way down to zero. This tea for me is disgusting, one of the few that I’ve dumped down the drain rather than muscling through it. I find it to smell (and taste) like the restroom soap you find in malls, gas stations and chain restaurants.

Very tasty! I don’t get the astringency I’ve had with other green teas. The dry leaf smells like straight up almond extract but the taste isn’t strong at all. More of a green tea scented with almond which I really like. I used 1 level PS and got two decent steeps, although the second steep didn’t have any almond taste or scent to it. One PS barely made a dent in my little 10g tin so I didn’t buy any more with my most recent order.

The first thing I noticed about this tea is the strong smell of the dried tea leaves. My goodness, so strong that it could take your breath away if you inhaled too deeply! Once steeped, the strong smell is still there and it carries over into the taste as well. This tea should have been named “Almond Extract.” Way too heavy on the almond flavouring. It nearly masks the green tea base altogether. I was hoping for a natural, toasted almond flavour but that’s not what I got. Too artificial tasting for my liking. I liked it much better on the re-steep when I could taste more of the green tea and less of the fake almond flavouring. Not the worst tea I’ve ever had by any means but far from the best. This one won’t be a re-purchase.

I went into David’s today to buy their roasted walnut green (and did) but the sales person convinced me to get a cup of this to try. And I’m glad I did! If I hadn’t been set on the walnut green (since it’s more wintry to me), I might have bought this one instead.

It was a little sweeter than what I was looking for, though. Got a bit of that artificial cherry taste that’s common with almond, but I didn’t mind it. I didn’t think it was over powering at least. Maybe I’ll pick up some of this another time. :]

I honestly don’t understand all of these bad reviews. My only assumption is that people didn’t steep it long enough. I found the tea to be very sweet, flavorful and delicious. I got a box of assorted David’s Teas for Christmas and this one was my very favorite. PLEASE BRING THIS BACK!!

I am updating my review because I now love this tea. Over the weekend I got this weird craving for pistachio ice cream. and the taste of the ice cream reminded me of this tea. for some reason I got the idea that I should try it again and I had some left over from my advent calendar. And now I love this tea and I’m SO SAD that its gone. If anyone has some left over ill buy it off you LOL. This tea tastes like pistachio ice cream, without the pistachios!

“Ooh” I thought, when I opened the little sample pouch. “This smells so sweet! Almost like marzipan. Good, I love marzipan.”
So I brewed it up in a state of good cheer, waiting eagerly for the marzipan almond glory to hit my tastebuds.
Wait, what happened? This turned into a painfully watery, vaguely green tasting beverage, with the hint of something that tasted like cheap almond oil floating in the background.
Drat. After the relative success of Toasted Walnut, I had hopes for this, but now I’m just glad its a sipdown.

Sipdown of this tonight. Doesn’t taste the same as I remember it… Tastes too almondy for me.

I am not going to rate this tea because I do not like marzipan and I feel like it would be unfairly low. That being said, I thought this tea had a strong nutty marzipan taste, over top of a mild green tea base. There is nothing artificial or “off” about the flavour, and I think all the undertones go really well together.

The Sweet Almond Green by DAVIDsTEA is a sweet tea indeed.

At first I was a little put off by the smell. Out of the gate it had a strong almond extract smell to it. The kind of smell that really hits you in the face when you take that first sniff.

It does look very pretty though. It has a nice mixture of thin, long pieces of green tea leaves, with wider, flakier pieces. The blue cornflower and marigold flowers give it a nice touch as well. And of course there are small chunks of almond – otherwise we couldn’t call it an almond tea!

I’m glad to say that once I steeped my tea that strong almond extract smell went away. Instead there was now this softer, delicious almond aroma. Much better.

It also tastes very nice. You could definitely taste the almond and green tea – both were fairly noticeable but neither was overpowering. I found it to be a very enjoyable tea and it really reminded me of almond cookies. Its one of those teas that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, which makes this one of my favorite green tea blends from DT.

Also – I noticed the blue cornflower and marigold flowers disappeared after steeping. Does this usually happen when these flowers are steeped?