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Forgot to review this when I first got it, so here’s some notes on my final cup of it as I remove it from my cupboard.
My first complaint that this was another of Davids’ tea with too much “stuff”. I’ve been thinking about making a teatra.de post about tea with too much “stuff”; Davids and Teavana are two companies (as well as Art Knapp’s tea, though that isn’t as known) that fall under this subject, I think. They both like their “stuff”, though they tend to keep a good ratio of tea.
But this one, and one other that I remember (cranberry pear from Davids’), had exceptionally large “stuff”. So much so that when you scooped teaspoons of it out to brew, all the little tea leaves would sink to the bottom so your first several (or most of) your cups would end up being almost caffeine-free, being made up of most of the larger ingredients. Sometimes you forget the solid base black tea provides until it’s suddenly absent from the brew.
You sort’ve have to learn to scoop a lot extra if you want to get some real tea into your drink. At any rate, the final two scoops were made up of the tea that had settled to the bottom, and I brewed it into my extra large TARDIS mug. So this last one ended up being more tea and less flavour (as opposed to my earlier cups which were a thick chocolate-coconut, but a bit watery without the good tea base).
Anyways, it’s a good mix of coconut and chocolate, and almost makes me think of white chocolate (but it’s not nearly sweet enough for that). It’s also got a good nuttyness to it—like hazelnut, except that I just brought up the ingredients list and realized there were none in here. It must be a mix of the pecans and other flavours that are making me think of hazelnuts. It actually tastes fuller because I managed to get a good bit of tea into this cup. Does remind me of macaroons (though honestly my main memory is the crunch). It’s a comforting cup.
In conclusion, I should start shaking my Davidstea bags before each use.