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drank Black Pearls by CitizenTea
6105 tasting notes

Backlogged sipdown. Not particularly enthralled with this tea; I like other straight blacks more.

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drank Black Pearls by CitizenTea
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drank Black Pearls by CitizenTea
6105 tasting notes

Not wowed by this tea; I think I’ve had tastier black pearls. It just wasn’t as rich and strong as I was looking for, even with 6 pearls for about 10 oz. Nothing wrong with the tea per se, just wasn’t what I expected of black pearls.

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drank Apple Pie Oolong by CitizenTea
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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.

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drank Apple Pie Oolong by CitizenTea
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drank Creamy Nut Oolong by CitizenTea
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Past sipdown – nearly as good as I’d remembered from Teaopia. Light in flavour, but sweet and nutty and unique. Hopefully one day I can get some more, if I ever finish the teas I have… haha.

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drank Creamy Nut Oolong by CitizenTea
6105 tasting notes

My dearest Creamy Nut Oolong <3 So, so delicious. Nutty and sweet and light and delicious. Really enjoyed a cup of this the other day, and my mom thought it wasn’t too bad, either!

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drank Creamy Nut Oolong by CitizenTea
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drank Creamy Nut Oolong by CitizenTea
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Picked up a tiny sample of this while shipping was free! It was heavenly, just like the Teaopia version used to be (complete with requiring lots of leaves for best flavour). I’m pretty stoked to have it easily accessible again!

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This is a good cup of chai latte tea but not one that I would rush out to buy more of (mostly because I am extremely picky as to what teas I bring into the house as I have got tons of tea to drink already).

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drank Creamy Nut Oolong by CitizenTea
561 tasting notes

It definitely tastes like its name creamy nut oolong.

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drank Apple Pie Oolong by CitizenTea
561 tasting notes

The tea itself is pretty tasty-I just don’t taste an apple pie flavor.

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drank Rooibos Strawberry by CitizenTea
561 tasting notes

I am detecting a pattern with citizen teas-the flavoring is really weak. This blend is no exception. I can barely taste the strawberries in this tea. Not a horrible cup of tea, but it just leaves me wanting more flavor.

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drank S'mores by CitizenTea
561 tasting notes

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.

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I didn’t care for this one. Not sure what it was about it, but nope..

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drank Coconut Green by CitizenTea
1759 tasting notes

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 :)

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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!

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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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…

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80

Cold Brew that I let steep too long…

Tasted like cranberry still, but a very dry and unsweet cranberry with a super grassy undertone. Drinkable, but not the best iteration of this tea by a long shot.

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80

Light, mellow, refreshing, crisp…

Flavors: Bamboo, Cranberry

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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.

Michelle Butler Hallett

That sounds lovely.

Kittenna

Agreed – it sounds delicious! How does the cranberry flavour compare to DT’s Cranberry Pear?

Roswell Strange

I think DT’s Cranberry Pear is a bit sweeter and more full bodied overall – but it’s also paired with other ingredients that have more body/intensity to round it out. Since this is over top such light tasting ingredients (white tea/bamboo) it’s a touch more delicate.

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