112 Tasting Notes

69
drank Gingerbread Cookie by DAVIDsTEA
112 tasting notes

I found that this smelled and tasted nice but I wish it didn’t include the maple sugar and white chocolate. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised having maple sugar and white chocolate in a tea that has ‘cookie’ in the name.

I don’t like adding sugar to my tea. Even if I did want sugar I would rather add it myself then to have it included in the tea.

Flavors: Ginger, Rooibos, Sugar

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 7 min, 0 sec 3 g 17 OZ / 500 ML

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75
drank Happy Kombucha by DAVIDsTEA
112 tasting notes

This is a very fruity tea! The oolong tea taste is quite mild and I find the fruit taste is more prominent then the oolong tea. It is quite an enjoyable taste but I was dissapointed to see that it includes some artificial flavor.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 4 min, 0 sec 2 g 17 OZ / 500 ML

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85

This had a beautiful blueberry taste without the typical tart flavor you get with a lot of fruit teas.

Flavors: Blueberry

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 9 OZ / 266 ML

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82

This is excellent tea! quite lemony but not really tart.

Flavors: Lemon

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 9 OZ / 266 ML

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70
drank Peppermint by Trader Joe's
112 tasting notes

This tasted like a decent peppermint tea but I have tasted better.

Flavors: Peppermint

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more 9 OZ / 266 ML

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82

This is a very fruity tea. After drinking the tea I looked up meyer lemon to see what it was and it is a fruit native to China that is thought to be a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. I notice that the ingredients don’t actually have any meyer lemon but it tastes like I imagine a meyer lemon would taste like.

This was very good and I plan to buy some next time I see it in the store.

Flavors: Lemon, Orange

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 0 sec 9 OZ / 266 ML

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76

I didn’t drink this tea to tame any tensions, I was just curious how this herbal tea tasted.

It was an interesting tea with a different taste. I found it tasted quite nice.

Ingredient list: Eleuthero, peppermint, cinnamon, ginger, chamomile, lemon grass, licorice, catnip, tilia flowers, natural lemon flavour, natural flavours (contains soy lecithin), hops, Vitamins B6, B12. Contains soy.

I wasn’t familiar with the eleuthero (the first ingredient on the list) so I looked it up and found that it is also called Siberian ginseng. The ingredients also include several other common ingredients in calming / night time teas as well as some more interesting ingredients such as catnip. I can honestly say that this is the first time I have ever tried catnip.

Flavors: Cinnamon, Floral, Licorice, Peppermint

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 8 min or more 9 OZ / 266 ML
Kristal

Sounds interesting! I may need to try this one sometime :)

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74
drank Goodnight Blend by Twinings
112 tasting notes

This is a chamomile based night time blend. It tastes quite pleasant but it isn’t my favorite tea in this category.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 8 min or more 9 OZ / 266 ML

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86
drank Licorice Spice by Stash Tea
112 tasting notes

I love this licorice spice tea! it has a real pleasant and cheerful taste.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 8 min or more 9 OZ / 266 ML

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86

This dry tea has to be the absolutely best smelling tea in the world! I would rate the dry tea 100 for smell. It smells very extremely lemony with a bit of ginger but no sour or bitter smell.

When the tea has been steeped it still smells great but not quite as good as when it is dry. The smell of the steeped tea would rate about a 90.

Unfortunately you can’t taste near as much lemon taste as you can smell. The taste is good but unfortunately it is a bit of a let down after having my hopes so high based on the smell of the tea. I would rate the taste at 80 so overall I am rating it in the mid 80’s because taste needs to be weighted more heavily than the smell of a tea.

There are no natural or artificial flavors in this tea. The amazingly good lemon smell comes from “lemon myrtle” which is not lemon at all but according to the package it is said to taste more lemony than lemon .

Flavors: Ginger, Lemon

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 8 min or more 7 g 17 OZ / 500 ML

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I just recently got into tea (fall of 2015).

I love trying many types of tea. So far I have tried many Black, Oolong, Green and White teas as well as Yerba Mate, Rooibos, Honey Bush, Chamomile, Mint and fruit teas. I have liked good teas in almost every category. I don’t go for overly bitter/astringent, tart, or sweet teas and I never add milk/cream, sugar or other sweeteners to my tea.

Even though I have many excellent teas I always want to try a new one just to see what it tastes like and if I like it even better than my current favorites. Eventually I will focus more on drinking my favorites rather than always trying a different type of tea.

Ratings:

85+ Excellent and I will definitely repurchase soon so I don’t run out.

75-84 Really good and I will probably buy it again.

65-74 Good and I might buy it again but on the other hand maybe I won’t repurchase.

50-64 OK and I might finish the box.

1-49 Really did not like it at all. I probably dumped out the rest of the cup for the teas on the lower end of this range.

I am only doing one review per tea. If I drink it multiple times and my opinion changes then I will go back and update my rating and tasting notes.

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