Wild Strawberry

Tried this iced and find that it tastes a lot like DavidsTea Strawberry Rhubard Parfait tea. I wasn’t a huge fan of that one and was glad I used up one of my free tea coupons to try it. I wish they would make up bolder unique blends instead of tinkering with similar blends that they already sell.

I’m glad I was able to try this in the store because this saved me money. My mom always talks about the wild strawberries and blueberries that used to grow near her farm when she was a child, and spoke of the epic, flavourful, tiny little berries she would pick at her leisure.

This hardly has any strawberry flavour, but at least it’s not overly artificial. It has that generic hibiscus and apple base flavour that many tisanes taste like. I was concerned about the rosemary because I cannot stand the stuff but oddly enough, I couldn’t taste any at all in spite of being ultra sensitive to it.

Nothing special.

Sipdown (608)!

I cold brewed the last two sachets of this that I had, and it was actually an amazing brew! For some reason, cold brewing this removed a lot of the tartness/acidity and drew out the vanilla/cream notes of the tea that are only sometimes present when you have it hot. So, it was a very lush, sweet and ripe strawberry flavour with a quite distinct vanilla creaminess! Strawberries and Cream – like a Campino type flavour. Add to that a very savory/herbaceous and distinct rosemary finish, though – it’s quite an interesting flavour combination but it all works so delightfully. I deeply enjoyed this last experience with this tea.

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Visited my local DavidsTea in search of the new mugs, I need to have the blue egg shell sheep mug. I toyed with the idea of getting the colour changing sheep mug instead but stuck with my original plan. While I was there, I also bought 50g of the Wild Strawberry tea at the request of my oldest.

Dried, I found the scent of the leaf to be very similar to the Strawberry Rhubarb Parfait with a very creamy strawberry candy scent. Brewed the liquid becomes a clear rose colour with a sweet creamy aroma. Taste wise, I picked up more of a sweet apple and hibiscus flavouring.

I was hopping for more of a strawberry taste. My oldest absolutely loved her cup of tea. Before I give over the remaining bag of tea to her, I want to try it iced.