Recently caved and bought DT’s Halloween themed Nordic set, dubbed the “Sorcery Starter Kit” – it comes with a black perfect spoon, a tin of Magic Potion, and the world’s cutest glass Nordic mug with little ghost outlines on it…
To be completely honest, while I do enjoy this tea, I didn’t really care about the tin of tea included OR the black spoon – I just really, really wanted the limited edition Nordic mug. Of course I’m going to put the tea to use though; brewed some of it up as a cold brew though instead of drinking it out of the mason jar I brew in like usual I poured it into the ghost Nordic to recreate the cute image on all the in store advertising for the kit. Add in a few squeezes of fresh lemon juice and…
Well, it kind of looks like the advertising imagery? The advertising has this really cute gradient look to it: blue/purple tea on the top half of the Nordic like the liquor naturally looks from the butterfly pea flower, and a brighter pink/purple colour on the bottom. Once I added the lemon, my Nordic appeared almost entirely like the pink/purple colour: I wasn’t able to achieve the cute gradient look. Maybe if I had used a lemon juice concentrate from a bottle and poured it in, as opposed to squeezing fresh lemons?
Regardless, the flavour was delicious and ultimately that’s the part that I care about the most; aesthetics is just a bonus after that point. With lemon juice this has a very smooth, well rounded berry lemonade sort of flavour. Lots and lots of raspberry and blueberry, with a nice bilberry undertone and the lemon juice acting more as a playfully tart top notes. It’s got the faintest presence of stevia in the flavour, but my personal experience has been that this note is a lot less present when either icing or cold brewing the tea rather than brewing it hot and I don’t find what little stevia I taste unpleasant doing it this way.
Overall, this may not have been the most Thanksgiving-y flavour for the day but it was fun to try and recreate the advertising since this has been my first day testing out the new ghost Nordic anyway.
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.
