2722 Tasting Notes
I’ve been largely unimpressed with mint chocolate teas in the past, so I wasn’t very excited to try this one. I like Harney’s Florence flavor, but all their other chocolate teas are kind of eh. I’m happy to say that this one is pretty nice! The mint takes the front seat and there’s just a bit of a chocolate base in the background. Nothing tastes fake or strange. This is actually very well blended, and I would totally drink this one frequently if it were decaf!
Thanks to AliceG for this sample! This might finally be the last of the teas she sent – it’s been fun trying everything!
I love carrot cake teas, so I was excited to use my frequent steeper points to get 2 oz of this. It’s actually one of the best carrot cake teas I’ve had. The spices are so full and tasty. My mouth isn’t smart enough to know exactly what it’s tasting, but I like it! I’m not sure I’d taste it and know that it’s a carrot tea, but it has a bit of a carrot quality. Really pleased with this one. I’m sorry it gets so many negative reviews!
Picked this for breakfast at an Airbnb because the box was so cute. I didn’t read the ingredients, so I automatically added sugar, but I don’t usually add any to teas containing licorice, so this ended up way too sweet. My fault, but I could tell that it’s a decent tea. To me, it seemed sweet and a bit fruity. I don’t think I’d need a whole box, but I wouldn’t mind trying it again. I won’t rate since it was a real sugar overload.
Thanks to AliceG for this tea. This is one you have to drink slightly quickly because the flavor gets a little weird as it sits. The flavor seems to be more similar to peach than to mango. The flavor is a little dusty and strange. It’s not very high quality. Perfectly drinkable, but there are many better things to drink.
Received this as a free sample in an order. I never order lemonade type teas, so I don’t have much to compare this to. It tastes all right cold. Not something I would order, but it’s decently refreshing. It has a little bit of sourness, some red fruitiness, and also a little bit of strangeness. Definitely prefer their other strawberry teas. It’s not sour enough to really be lemonade. I feel like this one needs to be tweaked a little.
This one has that same chalky banana flavor that banofee rumba has. I drank it plain, and at first it tastes like almost nothing, but at the end of the sip, the chalky banana hits. The second steep tastes the same as the first. I prefer this over banofee rumba because it’s missing the slightly rotten taste the other has. At first, I was missing any flavor from the green base, so the next time I brewed it longer, and an almost smoky green flavor appeared, and the banana didn’t seem as chalky. I could also taste the cocoa shells, which were okay, but maybe didn’t fit super well. I don’t love this. It’s all right. I fell out of love with banofee rumba by the end of my 2 oz of it. Maybe I’m tired of banana teas. But I also think this ingredient combination just isn’t right.
Hot, this was pretty good. Not at all sour and also not too similar to other fruit teas. Not sure if the flavor is guava specifically, but it’s light and pleasant, though not super remarkable. Cold, some artificiality came out. I cold-brewed the second steep, and that actually turned out quite pleasant. I drank it as a shower tea – very refreshing! I like having this one in a clear cup because it’s a beautiful color.
This didn’t smell great, but it’s surprisingly yummy. The main flavor is the throat coating licorice. It’s milder than in some other blends. I’m not sick, but I like to drink teas like this just for the tasty licorice flavor. Basically there’s nothing new here. Traditional Medicinals still has the best sick tea, and I prefer Stash’s licorice spice as well, but this is a good enough substitute while I don’t have the others in stock.
The first few sips I had of this when it was really hot were absolutely amazing. Pure pumpkin pie. I poured a small amount into a separate cup to try it with some milk, and that was great too. Definitely pumpkin with light spices in there. I brought the rest to work, and for some reason, it didn’t taste special anymore. I did overleaf it since I had a little too much leaf for one cup but not enough for two, so maybe that could lead to some flavor confusion. Yeah it just tasted like many other spiced black teas. The spices became more pronounced as it sat. I did enjoy it, but I guess if I ever have this tea again, it either needs to be very hot or with added milk. It made a decent second steep with plenty of starchiness.
Thanks to tea-sipper for the sample!!
