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Received this as a sample in my Citizen Tea order. It’s actually pretty tasty! Nice toasty oolong base with a warm apple flavour (not green apple). I absentmindedly drank both cups of it without noting anything specific down, but I did enjoy it and would definitely pick it up in the future.
Boy, am I ever glad I looked at the ingredients before making this cup of tea or I would have ruined it by burning the white tea leaves. I just saw “Black tea” and figured it was only black tea but nope-it also has oolong and white teas. So I adjusted my kettle to the white tea option and now I am enjoying a nice cup of tea made as a latte. I am on a latte trend at the moment-a comfort for the extreme cold right now in Alberta. Not sure I would have named this tea smores since it doesn’t remind me of one (it is so hard to find a good smores tea that actually tastes like its name). However, it is an enjoyable cup of tea that I will happily finish.
Very intense on the coconut. and a bit floral. I enjoyed the cup. However I felt the balance was off. Not scratchy at all, like many coconut teas. However… other coconut teas I’ve tried had more of a green tea presence, and I miss that here. Still very good. Maybe I’ll make rice with it one day :)
Cold Brew Sidown (456)!
This one was one of my free samples from Citizen Tea from my first order. I kind of grimaced when I saw it included, up until I read the ingredients anyway. I was definitely expecting a “fruit cocktail” tea that would play into the very overdone and often just not pleasant category most fruit cocktail blends tend to; really hibiscus heavy, probably lots of apple and pineapple and just very sweet and cloying.
I think this one has much more unique ingredients; pear, dates, and sultanas and I’m really intrigued and pleasantly surprised by the use of green rooibos as well. When I saw the ingredients, my expectations shifted drastically and I was not left feeling disappointed!
Most importantly, I think this does taste like a fruit cocktail – and without being an overly tart/cloying and hibby heavy mess of a cocktail. It’s very light, with a natural sweetness. Apart from the stronger pear and the distinct lemony notes from the lemongrass that are present in the top of the sip, I think the other fruit notes forming the body of the blend muddle together to create this really refreshing but fairly non-distinct orchard fruit like mix of flavour. But that’s essentially what a fruit cocktail is anyway; a muddling of fruit notes. In the top of the sip with the pear/lemon there’s brightness and a lively fruity character that entices you in, but this finishes clean and crisp.
Green rooibos was a great choice too; there’s no woody/peppery quality here to distract from the fruit notes and in blends almost perfectly into the fruit. I think people who don’t generally like rooibos might be ok with this one. Anyway – based on this tasting alone I think I would buy this one again next time I order from Citizen Tea, whenever that may end up being. I was so pleasantly surprised by this one!
Cold Brew Sipdown (2518)!
This was such an incredibly old tea that it really was time to finish off these last dregs. Like, I think I may have even had this tin from back before I moved to Montreal. Yikes! Even still, it made for a really delicious brew. Cool, crisp and refreshing white tea and bamboo with just enough of that vegetal cucumber pulp-like note complimented by smooth, approachable cranberry. Not tart, not tangy, and not really sweet. Just fresh.
(Even so many years old!)
Cold Brew!
I’m doing really good so far this year with not buying any tea, but for some reason drinking this tea made me nostalgic for another cranberry tea I’ve adored in the past – Boston, from Harney & Sons.
I just got so much of that cranberry flavour in this refreshing cold brew, and it was like it flipped some long forgotten and dusty switch in the back of my brain that said “Oh, remember that tea you haven’t had in probably at least five years? Yeah, you should buy some of that!”. I didn’t, and for that I’m very proud – but it was the weirdest flavour nostalgia.
Cold Brew!
More bamboo or lightly grassy tasting notes than cranberry, and what cranberry was present was more generic red fruit bordering a little on medicinal. It’s a result of age though, not something that was always true of the blend. I still like the bamboo notes a lot.
Cold Brew!
A lot of the cranberry has diminished with age, but this is still really refreshing and light/crisp. You can taste the bamboo a lot along with some more cucumber skin and timothy hay like note from the white tea. There’s still a small bit of fruity sweetness to be tasted, also…
I had been craving this tea literally all week, so I made a big Western sized pot of it yesterday to watch while I binged The Good Doctor. Both the tea and the TV show were really good. Sweet, smooth cranberry notes – not acidic/tart but more like some sort of cranberry jam/jelly, with the cooling/crisp clean finishing note of bamboo. Deeply love this one.