I might have rated this tea a bit higher, if it wasn’t so damn expensive! I was expecting more from a tea that was practically a dollar a bag and it did not deliver.
It’s essentially a basic, slightly bitter black tea. Some other people who’ve reviewed this tea referred to the vanilla flavour as delicate or an aftertaste but I think they’re just being generous! It’s completely non-existent! The tea smells a bit like vanilla, but I had to practically stick my nose in the hot water to notice it.
I tried it black and basic first, and then after reading a few reviews tossed in some milk and sugar to ‘bring out’ the vanilla. This did help! It made it drinkable and I’ll probably take the remaining tea bags to work and just treat it like a basic, black tea.
Not impressed.
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A dollar a tea-bag with results like that? Nope, I wouldn’t be impressed, either.
Hey I noticed you steeped it for 4 min 30 sec. You really have to be careful with that bagged tea stuff. It is cut up so fine that it releases the tea quicker, and also becomes bitter faster.
Seriously, this one time I opened a tea bag that came in a cute wooden box. And that stuff looked like pepper, not tea leaves! sob
I planned on steeping it longer, actually, because the comments all said it had a pretty weak flavour to begin with. I WAS better with milk and sugar, and is clearly a tea that needs to be dressed up—but for the price, I was underwhelmed.
A dollar a tea-bag with results like that? Nope, I wouldn’t be impressed, either.
Hey I noticed you steeped it for 4 min 30 sec. You really have to be careful with that bagged tea stuff. It is cut up so fine that it releases the tea quicker, and also becomes bitter faster.
Seriously, this one time I opened a tea bag that came in a cute wooden box. And that stuff looked like pepper, not tea leaves! sob
I planned on steeping it longer, actually, because the comments all said it had a pretty weak flavour to begin with. I WAS better with milk and sugar, and is clearly a tea that needs to be dressed up—but for the price, I was underwhelmed.