How weird is it that I ended up, unintentionally, having two gelato themed teas yesterday!?
I didn’t pick this one out for myself though; a coworker and I were playing the tea guessing game where you make a person a tea without them watching and you have to guess what the tea is, and if anything was added to it. Not to humble brag, but I’m really good at it – though it’s definitely MUCH harder when you play with added things like milk/sweetener.
This one ended up being an iced Lime Gelato sweetened with pumpkin agave, and topped with frothed milk. Obviously, I got the fact it was iced like right away – and I also was able to narrow down that it had milk in it very quickly too. From there, I knew it was obviously lime gelato because the lime notes were REALLY strong and the only other tea we have with that much lime is Sweet Lime, which you can’t add milk to. It curdles if you do. The pumpkin agave threw me off though. Like, badly. I could tell it was sweetened, and whatever it was sweetened with was definitely familiar – but couldn’t pinpoint it. I thought maybe honey ‘cause it did have a distinct taste and plain agave doesn’t. Then I thought perhaps the vanilla agave, because the flavour was extra creamy/rich but nope. I mean, who adds pumpkin to lime!?
So, I almost perfectly nailed it. Not quite 100% though.
That said, apparently lime and pumpkin work surprisingly well together. At least, with a creamy component like the yogurt in the blend or the added frothed milk acting like a sort of ‘bonding agent’ for the two flavours. This was really, really weird – but totally good.
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.