2577 Tasting Notes
Thanks to Mastress Alita for this sample! I was surprised by how light the flavor is. The flavor is mostly white tea. It’s a bit flowery, and it’s quite pleasant, just not at all what I was expecting. The flavor gets much more pleasant as it cools. I prefer bolder flavors, so I won’t be ordering this one, but I’m happy to have tried it, and now I want to try a tea that’s more accurate to an actual cherry bakewell because that sounds delicious!
Davids semi-annual sale is going on now, and for the first time in quite a while, I’m not ordering anything! We’ll pretend that’s through extreme will power, and not just because I’ve tried most of their flavors at this point…Anyway, this tea is one that I received as a free sample in a previous order, and I liked it well enough that I ordered a tin the next time. It’s pretty light, tropical, and a little flowery. I like it, but not enough that I would buy it again. The main flavor is a fake pineapple.
Oh man, so many things I want to buy in that sale… like those Nordic mugs! Must…resist…. buying…..
Stay strong! :P there are a few items I considered, but not enough to get to the free shipping threshold, so I decided I’d wait for their next sale (especially since I still have an unopened Black Friday package from them!)
This tastes like hibiscus and coconut with some cinnamon, but in a combination that’s strange. It’s tart and unpleasant. I only threw this into my cart to get free shipping on a previous order, and I wish I’d chosen something else. I made a cup for my sister, who didn’t like it either. I usually like hibiscus, but all the weird ingredients make it bad – maybe it’s the coffee leaf that I dislike?
This tea smells so revolting, I can’t even be in the same room as it. I gave it to my sister to try, and she says it tastes like nothing. I can’t bring myself to try it, so I guess that’s all I have to say! I’ll withhold a rating in case the badness is due to old coconut, but I bought the tin a few months ago, so it’d be pretty annoying if the coconut went bad this quickly.
“This tea smells so revolting, I can’t even be in the same room as it.”
Yikes. I have a weak stomach, I’ll have to remember that. lol
I suspect in the case of coconut going bad “so soon”, it’s because the tea is already quite old before it even leaves the shop. Dried coconut has a shelf-life of around 4-6 months, so if the teashop has their tea sitting around that long (or longer) before they even sell it, well… because I’ve had so many teas that weren’t very old at all (I record on a spreadsheet my purchase date) that within months of purchase, while the package was STILL SEALED, I opened it and the coconut was rancid!
The cases where I didn’t have this happen? Small-batch blender companies where, after I bought the tea, it was pretty much a new, fresh batch of tea, and in those instances, if I kept the package sealed, I’ve had the dry coconut last up to a year in many cases. After the package is opened, I don’t have issues getting the full 4-6 months. So I’ve gotten really picky about buying teas with dried coconut in them, now.
Yeah, I did open the tin to smell it soon after buying it, and it had the unpleasant smell even then. I’ve had plenty of coconut go bad on me, and this one didn’t smell the same as that, and my family didn’t mind the smell, so those are the reasons I wasn’t sure. But yeah, now I rarely buy teas with coconut, and if I do, I drink them immediately just to be safe.
Mastress Alita, yeah, all joking aside, that’s got to be what it is. I have ordered some “unflavored” milk oolong that had bad coconut like this. It wasn’t so bad to call it revolting but I had to throw it out.
AJRimmer, “I’ve had plenty of coconut go bad on me, and this one didn’t smell the same as that, and my family didn’t mind the smell”.
Now I’m curious what it could be…
I have no idea, and it could for sure still be the coconut since other reviews of this tea were generally positive – I’m just throwing it out to be safe!
Got a box of this for super cheap this summer. At first, I kind of hated it, but by the middle of my mug, I started to quite enjoy it. It needs milk and sugar because otherwise it’s much too savory for my taste. It’s basically a chai with lots of coconut flavor and lots of clove. Their process for decaffeinating tea may not be the best, though, because I drank two bags of this, and my heart has been beating quickly for a long time. I can usually drink decaf at night without problems, but, well, we’ll see see how well I can sleep after this! I’m not a huge chai fan anymore, but if you are, the flavor is pretty strong in this one, and the coconut gives it an interesting twist.
I got this one in a Reddit tea exchange in 2017, and I loved it so much that I ordered 4 oz during the next sale. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite hold up to my memories of it. It tastes like sour watermelon candy, but there’s something in the flavor that’s not quite perfect.
This one smells very strongly of fake, chemically almond. When I took a sip…that’s what I tasted as well. Mastress Alita was right! I’m someone who doesn’t mind artificial flavoring at all, but the chemical taste that some flavored teas sadly have is pretty bad. I added milk and put it in the fridge, and it tastes decent, as any tea would when enough milk and sugar are added. There’s still a hint of that chemical bitterness though. So maybe I just don’t like Adagio’s flavored oolongs. Maybe the flavoring would agree with someone else, but sadly, I would pick any other almond tea over this one. I may make one more cup at a later date to see if my brewing practices are what ruined this, and I’ll be happy to edit my rating at that point.
This is another generous sample from Mastress Alita. It’s probably entirely my fault that this turned out bitter since I never time my steeps. I added milk and put it in the fridge, so the bitterness went away. At first I didn’t notice any maple, but I guess if you’re really concentrating, it’s there! Other than that it tastes pretty typical for a breakfast tea. I drank the cup over the course of two days since I don’t prefer to have that much breakfast tea at once. So this tea was decent, but not as much my thing as I hoped it would be.
