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Sipdown (1466)!

This was actually really nice too! I was skeptical about how much it might taste like persimmon but they really captured that sweet and almost “dewy” honey and mango-like flavour. Impressively so. Not as sure about the vanilla coming through, but honestly I was just enjoying the persimmon so much I didn’t care. Really nice! Made me miss DT’s Playa Peach, in all honesty…

Sipdown (1467)!

I woke up earlier today than I wanted to, and by quite a bit. We have new neighbors in the apartment above ours and they’re absurdly loud – it’s frustrating too because they aren’t loud in the way where you can hear music or shouting. Instead it’s like they’re bowling in their living room – just tons and tons of thumping noises. With how the apartments are set up, their living room is essentially overlaps my bedroom – and they create so much thumping that sometimes the mugs on my bookshelves just gentle rattle as the basket infuser in them knock ever so slightly against the walls of the mugs. So that’s what was happening this morning – at 7AM on a fucking Sunday.

In fact – as I’m writing this tasting note now, I can hear that same “thudding” noise.

So I steeped this one up early in the day as I grumpily got up and needed a hit of caffeine to put up with however long that bullshit was going to be happening. I actually like this a surprising amount – and that was actually true of the other random tea that I tried from this company, so maybe I was being unnecessarily judgmental about these teabags? The maple is smooth, sweet and coating with a pleasantly fruity undertone to it. Overall there’s a lot more of the maple than the cinnamon, and with that kind of boozier red fruit & amaretto hint of the flavour, it almost gives me Christmas vibes?

I don’t think I could get on board with this particular type of maple flavour all the time, but definitely hit the spot this morning.

I love finding random teabags and tea samples lying around the office – it’s always a total crap shoot whether they’ll be good or not but I can never stop myself from trying them out.

It’s sort of the same any time a tea says “chili” in the name as well, isn’t it? Does that mean the faintest bit of heat possible while still making the ingredient claim or does it mean fiery hellscape in a cup? This one is a pretty good middle ground – I feel the heat but it’s not uncomfortable in the throat or too peppery, and it does build up over the coarse of the mug full but never to a bad place. The chocolate is nice too; a little fudgey and leaning into the complimentary nutty and honeyed notes of the rooibos.

For random office tea, I feel like I have to give this pretty big kudos.