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“Well my taste buds must be off because I am trying this tea that Roswell Strange so generously shared and I am tasting Tetley’s Orange Pekoe tea. That can’t be right. It even smells like the Tetley...” Read full tasting note
“Urgh, my throat is suddenly killing me and I’m really wishing for something that’d go down smooth and gently. This is not it. Part of my initiative to drink down teas that I don’t want to restock,...” Read full tasting note
“thank you Fjellrev for this sample from Tea Desire. This doesn’t rank as a vanilla tea that will need to be restocked, but it was an intresting one. it reminds me a little of the one from tao...” Read full tasting note
“Thanks Roswell Strange for this one. The dry tea to me smells almost like a cherry cola tea…hmmm… interesting. The brewed tea smells of a very strong, bold breakfast tea…hmmm…interesting. The tea...” Read full tasting note
East Frisian’s Sunday tea. A blend from high quality black teas with vanilla bits. Taste is full bodied refined with vanilla.
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Well my taste buds must be off because I am trying this tea that Roswell Strange so generously shared and I am tasting Tetley’s Orange Pekoe tea. That can’t be right. It even smells like the Tetley tea to me. No vanilla in this cup anywhere. This is really quite strange. Oh well, perhaps I will have better luck in the future. Luckily I have at least one more cup in the sample to try and get this one right. Thank you Roswell Strange for sharing :)
Urgh, my throat is suddenly killing me and I’m really wishing for something that’d go down smooth and gently. This is not it.
Part of my initiative to drink down teas that I don’t want to restock, I steeped a tsp. of this in my timolino (a little oversteeped, I was making Genmaicha too, and talking to Tre). Although it’s not helping my throat at all, it does taste a bit better than I remember it being. I’m ACTUALLY getting vanilla from this without having to add cream or sugar at all. Still, it’s good but not great and I have too many black teas.
Not changing my mind about restocking this.
Maybe when it’s done, I’ll chase it back with something minty.
thank you Fjellrev for this sample from Tea Desire. This doesn’t rank as a vanilla tea that will need to be restocked, but it was an intresting one. it reminds me a little of the one from tao leaf…and i can’t place why. Admittedly, i was distracted when drinking this with the Nazi episode from Fringe. Hard to pay attention to tea with all that asphyxiation going on haha!
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Thanks Roswell Strange for this one.
The dry tea to me smells almost like a cherry cola tea…hmmm… interesting. The brewed tea smells of a very strong, bold breakfast tea…hmmm…interesting.
The tea tastes like a strong black tea. It is very astringent on first sip. But towards the middle of the sip, there is a vanilla taste that does come out. I would describe it more as a fruity vanilla. Almost like there is a slight sour fruit taste mixed in with it, like sour cherry/berry vanilla. By the end of the sip, it is actually smooth tasting, which is where I would guess the velvety part comes in. Hmmm… interesting. This is a very interesting tea. It is totally opposite to what I would expect in regards to the astringency. Overall it is not too bad.
Sipdown. Wouldn’t buy again since it wasn’t anything special. Still on the hunt for that perfect vanilla black.
Have you tried Persimmon Tree?
No, not yet! That is definitely a company I’ve been meaning to try. Is it your favourite?
My favourite vanilla black so far. “French Vanilla Bean” is the name. I’d like to say I’ll send you some, but I’ve been really terrible about mailing these last few months and I’d like to not promise things and then not keep them.
Nah, no worries. I haven’t been swapping lately either since I’ve been busy and sipped so much down that I don’t have that much to share. I’m actually browsing their site right now. They have great deals on samples, wow.
it’s a busy blend so if your sample looks boring when you get it, it’s a bad sample
Backlog.
Thanks for giving me the last of your bag of this, Roswell Strange! Only taken me about a year and a half to write a note about it… I enjoyed my mug of this a couple weeks ago – more than I remember liking it previously (heh, no previous note, but I’ve tried it at least once before). Anyways, it’s a bit old now, so probably not as vanilla-y as it once was, but it served its purpose in my travel mug, and I don’t recall any issues with astringency.
I’m not a huge fan of this one, myself. But I get slightly more of the vanilla when I add in a teeny bit of sugar and milk. I really love Tea Desire’s guest service and I think they do a phenominal job with fruit blends/rooibos/mate – but I haven’t found a single black tea by them that I’d want to keep stocked.
It is always sort of upsetting when you need to add something to a tea to bring out certain flavors – I shall try some Truvia but at least now I know that this is not really something I would want to order in the future
Agreed – the extra stuff like milk or Truvia should be used to enhance an already good tea. If a tea needs something added to be drinkable then it’s not a good tea :/ This is definitely a blend I’m not buying again, though. There are so many better Tea Desire blends (still looking for a good black one, though).
I’m really loving their White Angel, and a few of their flavored pu-erh’s are also fantastic. I’ve stayed away from their blacks mostly too, although I do have a few. Just okay, so far.
Just looked that one up – sounds really interesting. Their green blends have been pretty 50/50 for me. Right now, I keep Chai Apricot and Asia Cocktail stocked – and I have a bunch of unwanted Japanese Cherry Blossoms (really didn’t like that one, even though it smells awesome). I’m debating trying Oreo Cookie finally; I’ve been putting it off because I strongly dislike oreos but my favourite sales lady said she can only taste dates when she has it. I love dates, so maybe I’ll give it a shot…
Rosewell, I’m pretty sure I have some here and can send it to you.
I appreciate the offer, but that’s ok – I’ll just buy it as a Tea to Go from my local store and determine whether I want to buy more based on that. No reason for you to shell out the money for shipping :) It’s pretty convenient for my to get ahold of it.
Oh, of course! Silly me.