So when I came home from work yesterday I checked the mail, as I always do, and I was pleasantly surprised that I’d received a mailer from Tetley with a sample of this tea! We sometimes send out tea mailers through work, and I’ve always thought how lovely it must be to get one in the mail (often with a distinct code) and I think I was correct because this was my first time receiving a tea mailer personally and I was thrilled to see it!
I don’t think I was alone either – we get A LOT of junk mail to our building to the point where we have two bins in the mail room that get filled/changed daily. Along with this mailer I got a bunch of other crap which I did add to the bins, and when doing so I noticed that there were virtually no tea mailers that have been chucked out. The ones I did see were just the info card – everyone in my building appeared to have kept the tea. So that was kind of cool to see some silent, communal tea love.
I of course brewed it up first thing when I got in to my apartment, and it was a nice cuppa to have come home to. I don’t personally care that this is a blend fortified with Zinc and Vitamin D, though I don’t dislike that either. It’s more of an “added bonus” than an incentive for me. The taste is my focus, and this tasted smooth and minty with a little natural sweetness. Definitely less ginger than I’d expected and also more of a fruity undertone – sorta apple-y maybe? But a good cup, especially for a free one.