Next up in my week of retrying teas I wasn’t enamored with the first time I experienced them…
This is a good pick because it’s just returned at the September TOTM; something a lot of my coworkers are thrilled about that I personally was feeling super “meh” about. Last year, when this was one of the fall teas, I just wasn’t feeling it – my biggest complaint was that it didn’t remind me of a muffin. It should have been lighter and softer in flavour with more of a buttery quality, and ideally able to be made in a latte. I believe one of the things I said was that a more apt name would have been “Blueberry Cider”.
So, I steeped it up as an iced tea and was ready to experience what I thought was a pretty below average profile. However, similarly to my recent Live Wire Lemon experience I do think I actually enjoy this one a little more than I remember liking it last year. Now, to be fair I did know going into this tasting that it wasn’t going to taste muffin like, so my expectations were different this time around.
I don’t know – it’s a sweet blueberry and apple flavour combo, with a bit of a mellowness to it. I almost feel like they must have just slightly tweaked the formula for this one though, because it has SOME tartness to it but definitely not the degree I so vividly recall from last year. It’s more… juicy. I also think there’s more yogurt pieces in the tea leaf this year too; so, while it’s not buttery at all it is A LITTLE BIT more creamy. Just slightly.
At the recommendation of a coworker, I added in some vanilla agave to this one half way through my cup just to see how that would change everything – and it was a HUGE change, in a good way. Our staff has just been on such a vanilla agave kick as of late; it’s like our “make it better” fix/solution. Oh, your tea is a little bitter? Too tart? Kind of bland? Add some vanilla agave!
Seriously though, it definitely tempers some of the tartness that stops this from tasting muffin-like for me, creates a more well rounded flavour overall, and in combination with the yogurt pieces actually makes this creamy and buttery enough to resemble what I picture in my head as a ‘muffin’ flavour. I would 100% drink this one again on shift with the vanilla agave added. I doubt I’d buy it, because I don’t really want to buy teas that need agave added to them to be worth drinking at home – but I think this will totally be added to my line up of things I drink/indulge in only at work.
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
