Honey, I Dew

Tea type
Fruit White Blend
Ingredients
Apple, Honeydew, Mango, Pineapple, Rose Petals, White Tea
Flavors
Apple, Candy, Honeydew, Melon, Pineapple, Cantaloupe, Bitter, Bitter Melon, Floral, Sweet, Fruity, Astringent, Mango, Peach, Eucalyptus, Medicinal, Wood
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Low
Certification
Vegan
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 4 min, 0 sec 13 oz / 371 ml

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Dew the right thing

In Vietnam, melons are a sign of good luck. In Chinese medicine, they’re said to help cool the body down. Around here, we think they’re just about the tastiest fruit around – especially when you pair them with fresh, delicate white tea. With fruity hints of pineapple and mango, this melon-packed blend is refreshing, juicy and naturally sweet. The best part? This tea was named by our customers! Is there anything they can’t dew?

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DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

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31 tasting notes

A delicate mleon tea perfect for when you want something light and not too sweet. Melon is the strongest flavour note with undertones of apple. This tea contains mango and pineapple, which are traditionally strong flavours, but thankfully they are hardly detectable here. A wonderful example of the elusive melon tea category.
Part of the DAVIDsTEA permanent collection.

Flavors: Apple, Honeydew

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 15 sec 2 tsp 17 OZ / 500 ML

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15019 tasting notes

I had this one as a free sample when i popped in to David’s tea to try and find some sale stuff a friend is looking for. White teas generally aren’t my favourite but this one was fairly nice as a gold brew. It’s not lupicia’s golden honey dew, but this makes a decent replacement for it if you don’t have easy access to lupicia. :) Over all a nice blend and pretty close on the flavouring :)

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My favourite of my recent DavidsTea raid last month. It’s a very fruity white, nearly herbal. It’s a very calming, smooth blend. It is quite expensive, however; more expensive per gram, and more dense than most teas by volume; it cost me about twice as much compared to the same amount of similar teas. Even then, I’d buy it again.

Flavors: Fruity

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 14 OZ / 400 ML

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308 tasting notes

Cold-steeped this for a few hours in my DT mason jar yesterday. I steeped it for about 4 hours. I should’ve let it steep another hour or two. It still had great flavor but it was much lighter than usual.

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15575 tasting notes

It’s very refreshing to see another permanent white tea blend on the DAVIDsTEA walls; I’ve been complaining for months about the dwindling amount of permanent white teas – I’ve even suffered some losses that were more emotional than I’d care to admit (Coconut Grove, Sweet Strawberry, and Big Apple…). At least a lot of seasonal blends for Spring featured a white base, and one of the Mother’s Day blends as well.

And not going to lie, the fact this was named by DT’s customers (and has such a cute name) is really appealing as well; I find I’m definitely more drawn in to wanting to try a tea when it has a unique name, even if the ingredients/flavor pairings aren’t that unusual. Let us put an end to the “Earl Grey Creams” and “Jasmine Greens” that every company seems to have a version of; give yours a neat name, and make it stand out!

I’m doing this one iced; yes, iced and not cold brewed. I don’t often have the means to do iced tea because I don’t actually have ice at my place. We don’t own an ice tray, and I don’t have the freezer space in my little apartment for larger bags of ice. I know it could be easily remedied by buying an ice cube tray but I always forget; so iced tea is a special treat for me provided by being in the right place (err, chef’s kitchen) at the right time.

My initial thought when I tried this was of Trident’s Watermelon Twist gum – the sugary, candy sweet watermelon top notes were pretty identical. I was expecting something both more mellow and, based on the name, more in the line of Honeydew so I was a little taken aback but once I got accustomed to the taste I found it really enjoyable. Contrasting that, the tail of the sip was a lot more natural tasting once the sweetness has subsided, and definitely a lot more honey dew than watermelon. I like the layers of melon that this one has. Almost like Trident Layers? That’s a bad pun, sorry.

The body of the sip is interesting too; somewhere in between where the watermelon eases up and the honeydew takes over there are a lot of very strong apple notes and some very vague mango and pineapple notes. I’d say they mostly create a tropical fruit vibe rather than make an impact as unique, stand-alone flavors though.

This was really enjoyable, and I think quite different from any other white blend that DT is currently offering, let alone any of their current blends. I really, really like the way they do Honeydew flavors; I’m thinking in particular of Honeydew Mate and Cool Cucumber (two seasonal blends). I loved both quite a bit (I still have some Cool Cucumber), and they definitely honed in on that awesome honeydew flavor. While DT’s watermelon can get too sweet or artificial, honeydew is a flavor they have successfully nailed. If you’re a fan of either of those two blends I absolutely 100% recommend giving this one a shot.

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I wanted to like this one better than I did, but I don’t think any other honeydew tea will match my love for Honeydew Maté. Sigh. This was decent, but it’s a really heavy tea, so I barely got anything for my 10g sample, which also knocks down the rating a little. The tea was also really, really light, and I’m thinking I should have added more leaves to my bag. Maybe next time!

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My life has been unexpectedly crazy this past week so right now I’m posting all the tea reviews I have backlogged.

I turned this into iced tea though as I didn’t have quite enough I added some Spa Day as well. The sweet fruity-and-coconut flavours really improved the Honey, I Dew and alleviated that strange bitter, artificial quality the blend gets when it’s cold. Still this isn’t a tea I would repurchase and I’m sad that DT got rid of Melon Drop (which was far superior IMO) and kept this one.

Preparation
Iced

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I was doubtful, but I did enjoy the smell so I decided to get an iced cup of this while at the mall today (desperately trying to find a birthday present for the bf).

I was right to be doubtful. I like the melon notes in this (predominantly watermelon and cantaloup with a hint of honeydew), but the BITTERNESS! The bitterness did tone down as my ice melted more and the cup got really cold. Anything else that’s supposedly in there (mango, pineapple) isn’t even present—maybe a HINT of mango in the aftertaste. I am willing to give this another go with the possibility that the girl at DAVID’s let this over-steep and that the bitterness may go away with careful preparation but it really ruined this cup for me. Melon Drop is definitely the safer bet if you’re looking for a melon tea from DAVID’s.

Flavors: Bitter, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Melon

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This tea is so perfumed that it gives me the worse headache every time

meakbot

This is one of my favourite iced teas ever, maybe brewing it for a shorter period of time will decrease the scent and your chances of taking on a headache?

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Sipdown! Much better cold brewed but still nothing to write home about. Still has a nearly artificial watermelon flavour to it more so than honeydew. Down to 55, w00t!

Sil

I am so jealous of your sipdowns. And small cupboard

TheKesser

me too Sil I’m trying so hard… but it’s not going well. I’m too tempted by new teas.

Sil

Paris has killed my progress lol though I amResisting better than I thought I would

Jillian

Me too – I have a DT store very close to where I work so I usually pass it on my way home and often the temptation is too much.

Fjellrev

New teas and/or a trip to Paris is without-a-doubt impossible to pass up, so don’t beat yourselves up! I myself have Lupicia teas coming in, plus a ton from Marz’s generously organized DF group order.

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