173 Tasting Notes
This was my after work tea. lol. What can I say? I like to make up two teas to go, one for the trip there, and one in my super insulated tumbler for the way home. I also picked up an iced tea (which was reeeaaaally sweet.) This one is reliable, even if it did kinda remind me of big red chewing gum today :/
Preparation
Another travel tea for work today! Most of this I drank on my way to work, and I noticed more rooibos this time. Most likely because I am more familiar with the individual taste of rooibos. I feel like this might be good brewed a little stronger to make as a latte. Maybe it’s time to dust off the ol’ lab coat and play mad kitchen scientist (seeing how I’ve never made a latte in my life haha)
Preparation
Not sure why, but I’m not really getting any chocolate from this. Which is really sad considering the name. I was hoping for DECADENT CHOCOLATE! lol. I you had just made me this tea and said, “try this!” I would have sipped and gone, “yum, it’s pretty good!” BUT it’s supposed to be chocolately deliciousness :( I got roasty coconut, which was lovely.
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed this tea, it just didn’t pan out the way I expected.
Flavors: Coconut
I was hesitant to get this because there are three totally different types of tea (white, green, AND oolong!) but I was all “ooooh, slightly smokey vanilla? gimme!”
When I first opened the bag I was met with a very pleasant vanilla… but it was all lost :(
I don’t feel like I have the palette to describe what’s going on here in my cup, but it definitely has a more pronounced smokey flavor. Where’s the vanilla? soooooo, I added sugar, mwuahahaha. I like it better, but still, it’s no surprise this is at the back of my cupboard.
I think next time I will go for a shorter steep time, instead of the recommended 3minutes.
Preparation
Normally I toss some extra sachets of random teas into my bag so I always have at least something on hand. This was one of those teas for me today.
When my sis got me this one to try, she told me it was one of her favorites so I was really excited about it. It just doesn’t do it for me though. I can’t exactly place it as pomegranate, although it does have a fruitiness. There’s also a bit of… butteryness??? Idk, is that even right? I don’t have much experience with tea, let alone oolong specifically to know what I’m supposed to be tasting, versus what I’m actually tasting. whoops.
This was my morning tea, I guesstimated on the amount. What? I was tired! I also added some sugar(albeit a little bit heavy handed.) Good gracious was it cold out today!! The trees were gorgeous though. The sun was out, beautifully blue skies, and all the trees had a delicate, sparkling frost. I thought I would be able to just sip this through my morning pre-store opening activities, but it was so good it was all gone even before I got to work :( So even though I didn’t get to enjoy this as long as I had hoped, it did fulfill all of my roasty-toasty, hazelnutty wishes.
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I want to try this tea so much, I am so jealous of the variety on the American adagio site versus the UK one! It sounds so good ):
I tried to like this post, but I can’t figure out how to do it, so I commented instead…
I know someone here made their own dupe by measuring out a little bit from samples of teas used in the blend. It’s not perfect because when creating custom blends you can change the percentage used of each tea, but it’s something!
oh, and to like posts you just click the little heart next to where it says #likes, and it’ll turn from grey to reddish pink :)
I’ll have to have a look and see if I can do that, thanks! I had a similar idea a year or so back with one of the Sherlock teas, but unfortunately the flavoured teas and actually pretty much every section on the UK site is more limited than the US, and I couldn’t seem to find even one where all three elements were available :/ they’ve expanded quite a bit, so hopefully I’ll have better luck now!
(And thanks for the help there, I’d been puzzling that for days!)
no problem!
So I brewed this one up in my travel mug before work today (we set a new store theme after hours today!) I’m glad I did because it was actually nice and comforting today. Granted I did pick out the pepper so it didn’t have that weird spice thing going on as much. With the extra spice out of the way, it helped me get through some of those crazy moments,…
aka, the whole Floorset. ("Where’s my marketing? We are missing products! Which props do I use? That table looks wrong. These aren’t spaced right. I can’t find it! Can you hang these signs? We need to run trash! Did you remember to clean the shelves? Box those up!) lol, it’s definitely crazy, but with a good amount of fun as well. And guess who gets to be up bright and early to put on the finishing touches? THIS GIRL.
Preparation
This is my first time cold brewing this one (about 20ish hours maybe?) Super enjoyable! I only had a sip then put it back in fridge for tomorrow since it’s pretty late already. Woodsy, vanilla, and that touch of floral from the lavender. I do need to make this one more often, but it won’t be a staple.
Flavors: Vanilla
Preparation
The first sample I received of this was a nice little add on from Adagio, and I ended up giving the whole thing to a friend. My next order I actually received another sample and it has just been hanging out. I prepared this as a cold brew (about 12hrs) Unsweetened you can really smell the vanilla. Being a dessert tea aficionado I sweetened it up with some simple syrup I made, and it being a nice enjoyable sweet tea. I could taste more caramel flavor after I added sweetener, probably because I made my syrup with sugar in the raw.
I probably won’t make any of this hot. I’ve been on a mission to figure out cold brewing lol. Hopefully the fiance will enjoy a large pitcher of this.
Flavors: Caramel, Vanilla
