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Thank you Virginia for suggesting that we add this to our Lupicia order! Such a good call!! This tea is DELICIOUS. The peach really is a white peach and so juicy tasting. I’m also getting that clean mouthfeel that I enjoyed so much in Lupicia’s Kiwi tea. Also, apparently I love pouchong? I’m equally as obsessed with Golden Moon’s Coconut Pouchong. But pouchong is usually not roasted and I thought I liked roasty oolongs…also I didn’t really care for a greener oolong I had the other day. I’m kinda confused…whatever, I’m over it. This tea is just so great. My advice to you is to buy it!

Sorry to disappoint Ost, but I do not hate this tea at all. It’s really good! If I had any criticism it would be that I need more oolong taste from it. I also probably used too much water for the size of the sachet. However the peachy apricot goodness that shows up and lingers at the end of the sip is very pleasant and also subtle in a good way. Thanks Ost!

I left work early this afternoon. I was like “Later, I’ve got some oolong to drink….I mean, data to analyze. Yes, data, definitely that.” I’m doing that too. But obviously on steepster a bit. Anyway, I just had to try this tea. I mean, strawberries, champagne, and oolong? I love all those things. The generous Ost obliged me :-). To me, this tea tastes like strawberry rhubarb more than anything else. It’s ok, but licorice of the Teavil Empire is there lurking where he does not belong. Why would you add licorice to all this wonderful fruitiness? There’s not enough to make me hate this tea, but my taste buds are not dancing with joy either.

I tried this one again as a cold brew and I did like it better than having it hot. The fruit is more present, but this tea is just over all “meh” for me. It’s decent and I would certainly drink it again if offered, but I definitely would not spend my money on it.

FYI, cold brewed this for about a day and a half (oops) but it wasn’t bitter at all.

Another tea from Miss B ‘s stash sale! (Best deal ever!) I’m not a huge fan of orange in teas…or really anything for that matter. I’m pretty much a purist when it comes to orange in that I like actual oranges but not much else, not even orange juice. Despite all that, I really enjoyed this cup of tea! It was an extremely well done tea. The harshness of the orange was tempered by the apricot and the whole thing was subtle in the best way. This tea had an understated elegance about it. I think that any orange lover would probably cherish this tea like Gollem with the precious.

Also, I had a fabulous Monday and I hope all you Steepster-ites did too :-). My colonies of cells that I carefully tended over the weekend looked good, my prodigal plasmids returned (I found them stuffed in the back of the freezer behind a ton of boxes; not cool, careless freezer-rearranging labmate!), and my best lab friend, whose cells I also tended over the weekend so she could go on a trip, brought me a tea gift! She brought me Coco-lada by Owl’s brew which is “a tea crafted for cocktails.” Yes please! She also brought in some vafler, which we ate with raspberry jam and gjetost during break while I drank this Fauchon creation.

Another great offering from H&S! I got a sample of this in Miss B ’s tea sale of awesomeness and am very happy to have a chance to try it. To me, I get mostly hazelnut with some hints of cocoa along with a smoooooth black base. There was zero bitterness and I was quite happy to drink this plain, although I see now that the H&S website suggests adding milk to achieve a Nutella-like taste. Next time!

This one didn’t really pop for me, but it was still pretty good. I’ve neve had rhubarb before, but this tea tasted similar to the DT’s strawberry rhubarb parfait without the creamy aspect of that tea. It was actually pretty tart on its own, which was the exact opposite of what Virginia thought of it lol. However, I was eating grapes that were quite sweet right before I started drinking this so that may have affected how it tasted to me. I’ll hold off on rating it for now. I added a little splenda and now I wish I hadn’t. I think I liked it better plain. This will definitely be a retry and I’ll withhold judgement until then.

I cold brewed this for about 14 hours. I think I like it better cold…no hot…nope, cold. Yes, cold. This tea is great either way! Cold though, it tastes so fresh and juicy and clean. Clean might be a weird descriptor for taste, but it does taste clean. I also definitely taste that this is first and foremost a tea just with this awesome kiwi flavor thrown in. Great summer tea :-)

2tsp/12 oz H2O/14-ish hrs in the fridge

The smell of this tea is chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! Both in the dry leaf and while brewing. A lot of times teas will smell amazing and then fall short when you finally taste them. Not so with this tea! ZOMG the dark chocolate. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. The chocolate taste isn’t too weak as is normally the case and the tea has a little bit of a creamy mouthfeel to it. I decided to have this with the 4 berry nutella crepes I made this morning. Good decisions all around!

Well this tea is fairly underwhelming. I actually measured the leaf this time. With the Kiwi I didn’t and underleafed it as a result, but that tea was still bursting with juicy flavor. This tea is just kind of lackluster. It’s a black tea, with some tropical fruit taste hanging around- mango, papaya, and pineapple perhaps? Although the fruit flavors do strengthen as the tea cools. I bet this would be much better as a cold brew. All in all, it was a nice cuppa but I wasn’t blown away by it at all. I like it, but I wouldn’t buy it again.