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Sipdown! I told myself to have a cup of this every single day until it’s gone. I had it as a latte the other night, adding some vanilla extract (with fancy vanilla bean) into the milk before frothing, so it was all fancily speckled with vanilla bean on top. As a result, this made a mean Coconut London Fog. For this last cup, I brewed it up extra strong and lazily poured some whole milk in, and it’s great this way too.

August’s recent email announcing some returning blends nudged me towards this tea, realizing that I only have one cup, so that’s a sipdown. I wasn’t overly impressed with this one, as the flavours fell short. It sadly didn’t remind me of a Christmas market. But it was still an easy one to drink. As a side note, I was so stoked that they were bringing back other blends, hoping that meant that Passage du Desir, but sadly not. Come on, guys, do it!

What’s this, I haven’t written a tea note about Anne’s version and here I am finishing off the pouch. One of my all-time favourite 52teas blend, so it’s nice to see it’s permanent. I think I may prefer Frank’s version but this version is tasty too!

Sad sipdown! I steeped this as a round two before heading to work thinking I could squeeze in that second cup, but I barely touched it while waiting for it to cool, so I transferred it into my water bottle and took it to work. Was so delicious lukewarm! Hoping to have more of this in my life someday. How I wish I could just make some 52teas all-star favourites order and stock up in one go.

It’s about time I opened this. The dry leaf is generously laced with chipped coconut and thankfully doesn’t smell soapy at all. No one needs rancid, soapy coconut in their lives. And then there’s the bergamot but it’s quite mellow. Not nearly as in-your-face as some straight EG and even some EGC blends can be.

I agree with VariaTEA that this is very similar to Herbal Infusion’s Marshmallow Snowflake Earl Grey, which was softer and more well-rounded with the vanilla marshmallow. In essence, this is like a cross between that and the original 52teas Coconut Cream Pie.

Smooth black base, fresh coconut, warm vanilla, and mellow bergamot all rolled into one. I’m having it with a splash of 2% milk but I’m itching to try it as a true latte. Maybe next time!

Anne nailed the blueberry cotton candy flavour in this tea. The base pairs very well with this, at least when it comes to the first steep. The plump blueberries in the infuser basket inspired me to try a second steep since I loved doing that with the original Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish, and the scent of this tea reminds me of it, but I didn’t care for the base during the second round since it was too much on the vegetal side for me. Otherwise, that blueberry cotton candy cloud in the first steep gets two thumbs up.

Sipdown! Finally updated my cupboard with the teas my boyfriend picked up for me in Europe last month so it’s high time I polish off some older ones. My neighbours were obnoxiously loud last night, so between their karaoke, random continual tap-dance-like sounds, and LULZ giggling and squealing like ZOMG, waking up at 6am this morning really sucked especially when I’ve been getting mostly later shifts which have me usually coming home past 11pm. So needless to say, I have a numb, sleep-deprived brain, which has become the norm over the past half year with this erratic work schedule, and I’m hoping that drinking a ton of coffee and tea will at least do something (but, let’s face it, it won’t).

I recall really liking this one when I first got it. I loved the stronger allspice and citrus in here, like drinking a spicier version of liquidated cola bottle gummies. But these last two cups were too sweet for my liking, understandably since a lot of the added sweetener (plus licorice root for a double whammy) sank to the bottom. So overtime, emphasis shifted from the Spice to the Sugar. Most definitely a pleasure to have in my cupboard but I’ve finally had my fill.

Holy smokes, after all these years, this one finally bites the dust, and that concludes my Butiki journey.

Finally got to this sample size after all of this time. That says a lot since Zen nixed their tea offerings quite a while ago now. I drank it a couple days ago but from what I recall, this was mostly starchy, mildly astringent, and very mildly malty. A touch woodsy? Good stuff.

This is a resounding NO DICE for me, to put it bluntly. I got this in my fall mystery box and have been putting it off until now, but granted, I’ve been putting off drinking tea in general because I’ve been so busy between work, volunteering, and doing things for others that I don’t really have time for my own self to even breathe. So nothing against this tea from the start!

Opening the packet, yeah, that’s pineapple bacon. To break it down, canned pineapple and bacon bits. Steeped, this was a complete train-wreck in my mouth. Does anyone recall a DAVIDsTEA pineapple blend that smelled like vomit? Grilled Pineapple! I just looked up my tasting note and I got an initial canned pineapple scent to it as well so there is definitely a correlation. So, here I get a combination of vomit-smelling, yet off-tasting pineapple mixed with smoky artificial bacon bits. Three sips and down the drain.