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YUM. I think this is the first rooibos I’ve had just by itself with no other flavouring – I really dig it! Perfect amount of sweetness. Unlike some other David’s teas I can truly feel good about drinking this one… no sprinkles or artificial flavours (or caffeine) to be found!!

I don’t know what I was expecting; obviously a maple tea, especially a rooibos, is going to be really sweet. For the most part it was good but I started tasting something aspartame-y halfway through. Other than that they got the maple flavour bang on!

I was so excited for this tea but I did NOT like the artificial strawberry flavour one bit. It made me sick to my stomach a bit actually. It’s artificially creamy which tastes weird and the chocolate did not taste awesome, too artificial as well. I thought the rose would be what I didn’t like in this blend but it’s actually everything else, because I can’t even taste the rose or the tea. I feel like I just brewed chemicals in a cup. :( If they toned down the flavours and made the tea more prominent it’d be a much better blend.

YUM! Dry leaf smells amazing, totally pink lemonade and mesmerizing. My bag doesn’t list mango in the ingredients and I don’t taste any mango, so I’m not sure what happened there but I like it without mango. I think the sulphites might be bugging me a teeny bit so I’ll keep an eye on that.

HOT: Delicious. A strong flavour that tastes exactly like pink lemonade. Tasted exactly how it smelled, was not disappointed!

COLD: Also good. Tart and tangy!!! On the cusp of being way too over powering – I’ll use less leaf next time… I used 1.5x what I used to make it warm in a 12 oz container. And I might be crazy… but I like it better as a hot tea for some reason. That will probably change once the weather is warmer.

I could have SWORN there was coconut in this. I had a sip of my friends’ tea with soy milk in it (dummy move cus I forgot sometimes soy milk has coconut in it, I only had a small sip though) and two sips of this and I immediately got gross coconut intolerance symptoms, but I don’t know if it was her tea or this. I sipped my tea and tasted coconut, she sipped it and tasted coconut… How does this not have coconut in it??!?! It smelled great, I just couldn’t drink it! Bah. I was kicking myself for not saying I have a coconut problem while ordering but if it wasn’t on the ingredients… it wouldn’t have mattered. So odd.

Nice if you don’t steep it too much. The earthy pu-erh taste can get really intense. Sometimes I really like this tea and sometimes I actually can’t stand it. I thought I liked it a lot more than I did – I don’t think pu-erh is my favourite.

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would!! The mint and lemongrass complimented the green tea perfectly… I never think I’m a big fan of green teas but then a tea like this comes along and I really like it… probably because of the addition of the mint and lemongrass. It’s just a nice, soothing blend, perfect for getting down to work in the afternoon.

My parents have this in their cupboard and when I’m over I usually have a cup or two. I like the addition of citrus to chamomile – it’s interesting.

I steeped this for way too long! Which I don’t mind, because I like spicy teas. However, my fiance makes the BEST ginger tea that puts all ginger teas to shame. We had an awesome ginger tea at Keefaa Ethiopian cafe in Toronto and he tried to emulate it at home – and it is SO GOOD. Ginger, cinnamon, lime juice, a bunch of other stuff – basically what I’m trying to say is I hold ginger teas to a very high standard now. This one is good, I just wish there was less pepper in it – I think it’s more balanced when I actually steep it for the right amount of time. Oops. For a store-bought ginger tea it’s still decent though, even with the oversteeping. I might add a squeeze of lemon next time I steep it.

I am not a huge fan of red velvet cake to begin with, but I was really interested to see what David’s cake teas tasted like. This one is pretty good – it’s definitely chocolatey, and definitely red velvety – they got the flavour pretty bang on, and it’s a rich tea. It seems to get more chocolatey with every sip. The flavour is bold, the aroma pretty much smells like what you get. I was really on the fence at the beginning – the beetroot kind of weirded me out – but it’s actually quite nice, and I can always appreciate a full-bodied flavour. I can’t stand watery teas that don’t pack a punch.

I’m planning on this being one of the teas I bring to work to stave off snacking on sugary crap, as I am slowly eliminating as much sugar as I can from my diet. I’d rather have a tea with 1g of sugar in it than a two-bite brownie with 14g of sugar in it!!! And since I haven’t been eating sugary stuff lately, the sugary teas from David’s seem even more dessert-like.