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I. Love. Ginger. Like, looooove. If you do, too, don’t bother with this one. A nice blend, in that the result is smooth and … I want to say, calm? Placid? It’s entirely inoffensive, but it’s underwhelming and just not exciting. I like my spicy teas to be bold and intense, and this is vaguely gingery warm water. It’s not horrible; there’s just too much amazing tea out there for us to waste our time, money, and taste buds on this one.

The first tea in a long while that I had to pour down the drain after a couple of sips. A cacophony, not a symphony. Unlike one of their other blends, in which I could taste both peppermint and spearmint—separately, in this one I tasted something vaguely minty that I could identify as neither. Honestly—and this is gross, sorry—it called to mind mint and cigarette butts. Yuck.

So many fancy ingredients to make caffeinated clove water!

I wish the cherry flavour were just a bit more forward, but generally it’s really nice. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that other ingredients, like apple pieces and orange peel, didn’t ruin the cherry flavour.

I think I need to try more cherry teas.

This was 15% apple, 5% cinnamon, and 80% cloves. Cloves aren’t even listed in the tea’s description on their site! Ugh.

Two things I really appreciate about Eastern Shore’s black teas:
- I’ve over-steeped them and they haven’t gotten bitter.
- I can have them without sweetening them—a first for me and black teas.

This Darjeeling is smooth and tastes great, but it’s just a little too subtle for me.

These folks keep surprising me. I don’t like peppermint or hibiscus in my tea: I’m not really a fan of mint tea—although spearmint can be oookaaaay—and hibiscus is just so tart. So a peppermint-hibiscus black-tea blend is just how I wanted to start my day. <puckers face>

But it’s … good? Like, it’s not for me, but it’s so balanced and pleasant that if you like those flavours, I think you’ll really like this blend. I don’t like it, but I can see how others might love it.

Another surprise! I’ve tried my entire life to like raspberries, since I love all the other berries; I keep tasting them and I keep really, really disliking them. So I wasn’t looking forward to trying this one. But I did, and it was surprisingly pleasant. The hibiscus doesn’t feature too heavily, here, which is great, cos honestly berries’ natural tartness is more than enough.

Day 5 of this company’s advent calendar. So far, they’re doing a great job of making their blends’ fragrance and flavour match their ingredients. This is a straightforward blend of black and green teas. I’ve never had a black-green blend before, and didn’t know what to expect. I also had no idea how to steep the thing, since the temp for black tea is so different from the temp for green tea. I should’ve looked it up, but my laziness cannot be overstated. I just split the difference and winged it.

A great blend. I could smell both the black and green teas, and the combination was so complementary! Really smooth and just wonderful.