Next in the line up of Summer Teas!
Drank this one iced, as I did with all the new summer iced teas for my first tasting. The smell of the dry leaf for this one is definitely berry like and sweet, but I don’t think really conveys the blackberry super clearly so I was curious to see just how strong the blackberry taste would be. After all, there are WHOLE blackberries in the dry leaf so you’d hope that they’d come through in the taste.
Sadly, I don’t think that the steeped up brew totally nails the blackberry flavour – though it definitely effectively communicates that it’s a berry infusion, so at the very least you have that. The most interesting part of the blend is actually the underlying creamy notes though; they’re somewhat subtle but really tasty. In a way, it reminds me quite a lot of a blueberry or blackberry Greek Yogurt; same sort of creaminess but accompanying tangyness as well. I really wish there wasn’t hibiscus in this, because I definitely get the impression it’d make such a nice berries and cream latte. Overall it’s a nice, fruity iced tea though and really refreshing. I think the berry notes, cream, and softer background notes of apple and pineapple all go together quite well.
Of the four new teas, this is my third favourite. Though I think it’s worth noting that those first three are so close together – I mean, genuinely I enjoyed this one, Sour Watermelon, and Rainbow Sherbet quite a bit and would happily drink ANY of them again. They all had really good flavours/aspects, and the fact that this is third on my list shouldn’t be taken to mean that it’s not good.
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EDIT: I totally forgot to mention that this one pretty strongly reminds of me a more cleaned up/refined version of Berry Poppins from a few years ago. It’s like the company saw that the berry element of the blend was well received but that the cream was chalky/too artificial so they switched things up and gave us this tea which does a much better job of nicely conveying that flavour.