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Latte time! The chestnuts really shine having it as a latte. Delicious, creamy, chestnutty goodness with a hint of chocolate. Perfect for a “blizzard”.

I figured this would make a good cold brew, but it’s basically the same as hot: a fruit roll up with too much apple. I bought this under the impression that I liked it and clearly I was mistaken or my tastes have changed. It’s not awful, but it’s not what I want.

Sipdown! Though I was sure I had more of this lying around…

I have a tendency to not make lattes as it’s much easier to just brew up a black cup. But I have to say there are teas that are just meant to be lattes, and this is one of them. This is so perfect tonight I have to say I’m sad to see that I don’t have any left. Buttery delicious with spices and tart apple. Perfection.

Speaking as a not huge coconut fan, this is rather lovely. I had it as a tea latte. Sweet, creamy, coconut—as one would expect. I’m not sure it screamed “pie” to me, but those flavours might’ve gotten muted due to it being a latte. I wouldn’t want to have it in my cupboard, just as I don’t see myself craving coconut cream pie that often, but I sure got through this quickly because it was just so tasty!

Finally had this hot (and have almost made it through all of the 24 days of tea :P ) and I have to say it it so much better! Really dominant fresh blueberry taste with a hint of jasmine. If I was really in the mood for a blueberry tea, this would probably be it. Only downside was a very slight astringency at the end, but it was barely noticeable. I’ll give it a few more points.

Today’s experiment was 50:50 Cool Cactus and Mango Diablo and boy, what a delicious tropical explosion! There’s so much going on here—lime, mango, pineapple, prickly pear, strawberry, spice, etc—that every mouthful is different. It’s like eating a bag of tropical skittles!

After giving this a proper chance I have to admit I’m still not a huge fan. I find it very dry, like drinking cedar, and I still find it has a bizarre blueberry yogurt vibe. I’ll try it on a quicker steep time for the last cup, but I don’t see myself picking up any more of this.

So I wasn’t sure about this one but I want some thing new and herbal given the 4 cups of black tea I’ve already had today, so it at least fit the bill.

The first note is predictably fruity/berry-y. Blackberry seems dominant. Unfortunately there’s this off putting not that I can’t put my finger on. I feel like it’s kind of woody, so maybe it’s the rooibos, but I wouldn’t swear by it. The aftertaste is fairly nice and rather bizarrely reminded me of a cheesecake covered in berries and berry sauce—yummy! Too bad the tea doesn’t taste like the aftertaste.

I just realized I drank this on what was actually a snow day, how appropriate.

Unfortunately, this tea is awful. I’ve never been a fan of DAVIDs’ mint (I think I’ve made that pretty clear to anyone who follows me), but there were quite a few mint teas in the Advent Calendar (including this one) and up until now they at least been tolerable.

Not so in this case. It starts off promising. Mint and white chocolate. Not great and I wish it felt a little more “crisp”, but it wasn’t terrible. As it cooled off, however, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was eating compost/plastic masked by mint. It also had that off putting sickly sweetness at the back of your throat. I considered throwing this down the drain (which I don’t believe I’ve ever done) and I have no idea how to handle the last half of this tin (probably get my boyfriend to try it—he’s less picky). This was truly bad. I actually feeling kind of nauseous now… The 5 points it’s getting is because at first I had hope.

I haven’t actually had too many straight green teas so I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this.

I actually really enjoyed this. Vegetal, yes, but not overpowering. I got a real Japanese soup vibe from this, which is probably because of the seaweed notes. I could probably sip on this for a really long time before I got tired of it, but I’m not sure if I would go out of my way to pick some up.