Ehhhhhh, this is an odd one. Not sure I like it. Something about the flavour combo was offputting, but I can’t put my finger on why. It was almost as if a big bag of garbage leaked all over the counter, and someone wiped it down but the smell is lingering faintly in the background. and the taste… except you don’t know that the garbage was ever there and it’s so faint that you can’t quite pinpoint where it’s coming from.
That said, if you can get past the awkward initial part of the sip, the berry-ness is quite nice! but that’s about all I’m willing to say. It didn’t leave much of an impression beyond that, though it really does taste like berries, not just overall “fruit”.
Rating: 72
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Their Apres Ski had some ‘garbage’ notes in the nose, too. I wonder if the fruit ferments before it gets blended in the tea.
I remember that, yes I agree!! fermentation makes sense. I’ll bet that’s what it is!!
Sometimes I wonder about that too… I don’t recall thinking that about this particular tea, but perhaps a couple of the nasty Adagio ones.
blech!! it must be in only certain batches. I’m sure they wouldn’t knowingly sell a badly blended product :(
I used to work in a laboratory that studied rotting vegetables, and we always had garbage that leaked and the smell of all the leaky rotten garbage would just linger on your clothes and in your hair and all through the building. Your description reminds me of the smell of that lab — this tea is probably nowhere near as bad, but…
eeep, that sounds like a terrible “perk”!
and this one is definitely not as bad but this one just might be: http://steepster.com/teas/adagio-teas/252-pina-colada
Their Apres Ski had some ‘garbage’ notes in the nose, too. I wonder if the fruit ferments before it gets blended in the tea.
I remember that, yes I agree!! fermentation makes sense. I’ll bet that’s what it is!!
Sometimes I wonder about that too… I don’t recall thinking that about this particular tea, but perhaps a couple of the nasty Adagio ones.
blech!! it must be in only certain batches. I’m sure they wouldn’t knowingly sell a badly blended product :(
I used to work in a laboratory that studied rotting vegetables, and we always had garbage that leaked and the smell of all the leaky rotten garbage would just linger on your clothes and in your hair and all through the building. Your description reminds me of the smell of that lab — this tea is probably nowhere near as bad, but…
eeep, that sounds like a terrible “perk”!
and this one is definitely not as bad but this one just might be: http://steepster.com/teas/adagio-teas/252-pina-colada