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I had to calm down after my original tasting note because I was crazy for this tea for a good couple of months there. I am still a huge fan but not as crazily obsessed with it as I once was!

Still a fantastic iced tea, and I also love it hot. I love the tropical notes.

All I got from this was almond. I suppose with such an almondy scent I should have avoided it—I am just not a big fan of almond essence. But there were so many other exciting ingredients in the list, I thought surely they might come through too! I suppose if I were going to suggest any other flavours they would be fake cherry and fake coconut, but mixed with the almond essence it was just a big bunch of blah. Such a pity. I’ll try a second infusion and see if that changes the mix any but I’m sincerely underwhelmed.

This is a delicious medium black tea. Steeping for around 5-6 minutes brings out a great amount of ginger, with sweet peach more on the nose than the tongue. I imagine this would be a real treat iced with a touch of honey or sugar as well!

Killer fruity mix, fresh and tropical and great both hot and cold. Loses a bit in a resteep so it’s sad you have to use so much for the great flavour but it’s still super excellent.

I don’t pick up the weird vegetal note that some steepsters are mentioning but it looks like we fans of this blend aren’t fazed by that at all.

I’ve tried one other bamboo tea before, T2’s plain bamboo blend, and the bamboo is presented very differently in that one. Interesting comparison.

This tea is making me rethink my feelings about licorice root, seriously. The best iced tea ever? Possibly. How sad it’s a limited edition and has already left stores. I’ll be rationing my supply to make it last as long as possible.

Fruity good times. I normally have this one on hand as a go-to iced tea but I felt like it hot tonight and it definitely delivered. Upped the teaspoon/cup ratio to get a stronger hot flavour out of it and it was definitely successful.

This is just a really pleasant black flavoured tea. The dry scent is unreal, like a Christmas fruitcake. The sweeter flavours don’t come through super strongly but that’s good—the black tea gets to be the star.

First infusion: very sweet topnotes, even bubblegum! Creamy, too… how does it do that?
Second infusion: still bubblegummy. How strange. And a lot of colour still coming through in the infusion!

I thought this was a sipdown but then I found the other half of the box. Ah well. I’m not sad, really, because I like this tea, but I thought I was gonna get to open a new one (that’s my rule with sipdowns). So let’s drink more of this bad boy! Maybe I’ll try it iced soon—I almost did this afternoon but the weather took a cool turn.