Cuppa'T Specialty Teas

I made this iced today and made a tea smoothie. How refreshing! The peach notes are definitely shining through here today.
Smoothie: iced tea, banana, frozen mango, low fat vanilla yogurt

This is the first decaf black I have had. It is interesting. The black base tastes a little different than usual blacks. I am certainly getting the peach taste in this tea.
I guess I just feel like something is missing from this tea. haha….I guess it is the black tea!
I still like it and will certainly finish the 25g I have.

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I have enjoyed the last of this tea cold brewed with my lunches at work. I would say that this tea is a little sweeter cold brewed which is enjoyable for me.

Mmm so happy to have this back in my cupboard.
Chamomile is one of those ingredients that I don’t have too often, but I do enjoy it in this blend. The peach is also very tasty in here. It all blends fairly well together with the white/green base.

Yum
Dry leaf smells like a fresh peach
Colour: light yellow
Smell: light peach flavour
1st steep: very delightful. I get the green and white tea tastes. At first, I could taste the peach and the chamomile seperately but then they blended together for a nice smooth taste.
2nd steep: 85degrees, 4minutes, less peachy and more chamomile taste with the white showing through more and the green less.
I can see this one becoming one of my favs from my local tea shop!

One thing that I love about green/white blends is that the second steep hardly ever tastes the same as the first. I like that!

I finished off this tea on the weekend with the inlaws. It is very sweet and good for a treat. Goodbye for now, we might meet again sweet lips.

Re-visiting this sweet, smooth tea from my local tea shop. A splash of milk really brings out the sweetness. Good stuff, could be a little more chocolatey though.

This is nice and smooth.
It tastes very similar to DAVIDsTEA Read My Lips. I would have to say it is a little creamier but less chocolate-y that DT’s version though.
Colour: nice light brown/yellow
The smell is just divine…..and the taste is good too. Light notes of chocolate, I taste a little of the black tea, and the mint coming forward in each sip.

My first tea party day!! My friend who grew up in England and I had a picnic in the park and lots of tea throughout the afternoon. She brought some tea back to Canada from Turkey. We had 4 different teas today I think!

So on to the tea….I cold brewed this to have as an iced tea. This is not my favourite. It has a weird artificial taste. The aftertaste cold is slightly tropical, but only ok. Decreasing the rating a little.

This is pretty fruity, a nice light white tea taste.
There is a slight chemically aftertaste though.
I will have to try this cold-brewed as well to see how I like it

This is a bit spicy, and I am not a regular chai drinker.
I have to be in the mood to drink it.
This is decent but there are other chais I would prefer. I did finish my sample though.

Backlogging: I finished this bag off and haven’t written anything until now. So I haven’t had it for awhile but wanted to log it.
This isn’t as sweet as I thought it would be. It is a tad bitter and astringent but I do really enjoy it.
It does smell very yummy vanilla.

This is a good walnut tea. A little tad bitter but that is the way walnuts are supposed to taste.
Adding a smidgen of milk makes it a nice treat but I usually like my teas “naked”.
I don’t really taste the cloves or orange, but I do taste the cinnamon and it is a nice compliment.

This time, I diluted this tea with a little bit of silver needles and it was better. It was a little too strong un-diluted.
This is ok, but I wouldn’t re-stock.

This was a fairly sweet flowery tea. Maybe a little bit too flowery. The pomegranate was buried beneath all the flowers.
Next time I will have to mix with a straight white so the flower isn’t quite as strong.

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This is ok as a latte, but plain, I think that the rose maybe overpowers it a little. It is a little artificial tasting as well.
I probably won’t restock this.

This was a good, slightly sweet and slightly spicy rooibos.
This was really good tonight on a really cold night, really warms you up inside!

This tea is comforting, smooth, slightyly floral? maybe but mostly a nutty flavour.
Very light tasting.
2nd steeping was almost too light of a flavour, the taste was too weak I think.

Sipdown. I have been drinking a lot of tea cold brewed lately as the weather warms up. I enjoyed this as usual!

This isn’t as good as I remember :(. Maybe my tastes have changed so much that I prefer natural tasting and ingredients in tea.

This is ok. It tastes like Tim Hortons peach juice just as Roswell Strange mentioned. I do get some apple notes as well. The rosehips are not overpowering and th chamomile is in the background.

Overall, quite thirst quenching!

I also cold brewed this overnight 1.5teaspoons.
This was sweet and refreshing.
I added a little sugar at the end, but I don’t think that it needed it.
This will make a nice spring/summer treat

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I finished this one off with a cold brew. This is very refreshing, I didn’t add any sweetener and I didn’t find that it needed it. The slight tartness is what makes it so refreshing I think.
I might have to stock up on this for the summer!

This is slightly sweet, slightly tart.
I cold brewed this overnight using 1.5teaspoon
I added a little sugar at the end, and liked it a little better but I prefer to not have to add anything to my teas.
Certainly a yummy fruit taste.

I cold brewed this tea last night to see if I liked it better this way. What a difference!
It is so much better now. Sweet and yummy enough to not need extra sugar.
I will certainly only make it this way now.
There is still a little bit of a strange aftertaste, but it is tolerable now.
Upping the rating significantly