Peach Bellini

This isn’t really Bellini flavoured, but I love the cardamom fruit combo a lot more than I expected to.

The main flavours are dried apple, peach, orange. Notes of raisin are spices come through. Heavy cardamom flavour, a pinch of fruity hibiscus to counterbalance the sweet dried fruit. I really enjoyed this iced, and I find the peach/cardamom a unique and tasty combination.

This one wasn’t half bad. It’s peach and more and comes across as being pretty fresh i think this one would have been interesting as a cold brew :) thanks variaTea!

Also…so very close to my sipdown goal haha 1 away from hitting it, though i did make my more important weight goal, so i’m not complaining! here’s to august tea drinking!

Roswell Strange had success with this tea and it inspired me to give it a try. However, this is a weird one. Peach Bellinis were my go-to beverage when I was old enough to drink and I can say that none of them I tried had the spices that this tea does, or any spices at all for that matter. For RS, the spices were subtle but in my cup they are the strongest flavor whereas the peach is sorta in the background. This is drinkable but not my favorite. At least it doesn’t taste like cheese.

Sipdown (277)!

New, to me, company! I definitely first saw this company on VariaTEA’s instagram feed; some of the flavours they offered seemed pretty unique and samples were an option so I ended up getting twelve different samples; plenty to get a good feel of the company.

I don’t know why I chose this one to drink first: I knew I wanted an iced tea, and it definitely looked like the kind of flavour that would work well for an iced tea but apart from that something about it just… stood out.

- Kind of a weirdly buttery peach smell to the dry leaf?
- The dry leaf hardcore reminded me of peach strudels
- The taste is brighter/juicier and more candy/cocktail like
- Does retain a HINT of butteryness to it though
- Also notes of sweet apples
- The spices seemed like a weird touch to me, but honestly I’m into them!?
- Like, they’re just BARELY present but the soft hints of allspice and ginger work
- It just makes the brightness of the peach extra vibrant
- Don’t know that I agree strongly with the name…
- But I’m REALLY into the tea

I wonder how long they’ll be keeping these summer exclusive teas around for, because I was actually SUPER impressed by this one and if I ended up liking enough of the blends I would actually definitely consider grabbing more of this one. I think it was a good intro to the company, for sure!