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I had three teas set out as sip down candidates today. I accomplished his one. It’s very nice, I enjoyed it a lot.

However, due to receiving five new teas today, my number is going up instead of down.

It’s a game isn’t it, collect ALL THE TEAS and then try to drink them all down.

What on earth did I do wrong here? It tastes like cardboard.

Thank you JustJames for sharing this. Thankfully I have more to play with.

Thanks to VariaTEA for sending some of this my way! It most definitely smells like a vanilla caramel. As a matter of fact, it smells kind of similar to the other vanilla teas I have hanging around at the moment.

Going right into the flavour, the base is quite smooth, as are the flavourings in here. It’s gentle and sweet, like someone plopped a piece of vanilla caramel into a cup of smooth black tea and let it melt. But granted, the Bayswater Vanilla Cream tea is similar, at least based on memory.

This calls for an experiment. Since I have one cup left, I’m going to brew up Tea Desire’s Velvety Vanilla alongside the above two and see how they all compare. I can’t help but think that if one were to engage in a blind tasting test, they would receive similar scores, at least the former two. I’m always interested in how brand labelling influences one’s perception of a product.

Thank you Variatea for the sample that led to my first Nina’s purchase. I still have not tried the others yet. I’ve been too busy drinking this the last few days in-between my normal Earl Grey’s. I need to slow done before I grow tired of it.

This yummy tea is sweet caramel and vanilla not astringent at all very smooth. It even tastes great as it cools. So of course I tried it iced and still a nice sweet caramel vanilla tea.

This sample came to me via the wonderful and ever so thoughtful JustJames, who is so much more than just anything (I’ve said that before, I know, but it’s still true).

I decided to have this tea this morning because another steepsterite wanted to potentially send me some in a swap, and I had to figure out if I actually liked it enough to acquire more. I did enjoy the cup, although I did find it quite thin, even at a four-minute steep. In fairness, I wrecked the first sample because I used a huge mug and the water wasn’t close enough to the top to really soak the leaves sufficiently, but I did follow it up with another properly brewed cup. Don’t get me wrong—this tea does indeed taste of caramel and vanilla—but, I don’t know, there’s an underlying sharpness (which is not to be confused at all with bitterness or astringency—it’s more, I don’t know, it’s more something that I find to be present in all of NP’s teas). But I’m so so happy to have tried this, JustJames. Thank you so so much!