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So thrilled to have won the 52Teas May giveaway box! It came in the mail today and it’s brimful of exciting flavors :) Many thanks to Anne and Amethyst!

I decided to try this one first because I was curious to see just how much it could taste like blueberry danish, and the answer is VERY. It smells and tastes spot on, right down to those sort of jelly notes from the filling. The base tea provides good support, but doesn’t distract from the blueberry, which is very clearly the star of the show. I don’t get much cream cheese, but I feel like when I’ve eaten blueberry danish, I didn’t get much cream cheese there either — like it’s just a little smear usually to keep the blueberry from soaking into the pastry. So overall, the flavor balance seems incredibly accurate. Usually when I get flavored teas they just sort of vaguely taste like whatever they’re named after. I want to know what kind of alchemy is going on here!

Still working on these pearls that I ordered so long ago. On the plus side, they keep their flavor well. I’ve never gotten over the fact that they’re not as peachy as the batch I first ordered; I guess I was in the minority of people who liked them that way, because most of the reviewers wanted the balance tipped in favor of the jasmine and were probably glad when the recipe was changed.

Anyway, I still enjoy this once in awhile but it’s not the favorite it used to be.

I ordered three little taster pouches of this tea, and I’ve come to the end of the first one, so this is a sobering reminder that my supply is finite. Excellent tea though. Love the raspberry, citrus and cream notes. If I wasn’t trying extremely hard to ration this tea, it would be my daily afternoon cup.

A nice cup of tea saddened by the realization that this is the last of the tin. I am out of Paris. How does this happen so fast?

Got this as a recent sample. It is very reminiscent of David’s Forever Nuts, but Forever Nuts just seems a little stronger, a little more all around apple-cinnamon-buttery. Still good, but you know, not seeing anything here that would make me want to switch from the original.

Sipdown of this and it was more dust than leaf, but it still held up really well. A nice earthy, roasty kind of tea, tasted sort of halfway between long jing and a roasted oolong.

While roasted oolong is never going to be my favorite kind of oolong, this is still enjoyable. It has a pleasant mellowness. While it’s easy to detect the roast, it’s still a light-tasting roast. Lots of earthiness and a hint of nuttiness.

I always imagined butterbeer as tasting something like butterscotch or caramel with lots of cream. This is nothing like that. The epic sarsparilla notes make this hands down a root beer tea, but it’s such a good root beer tea, who could mind? Really happy to have this. I love root beer flavor, but I’ve never been a fan of the carbonation or the sugar rush. Root beer tea is the best of both worlds.

This seems a little more mineraly than the average milk oolong, probably because it’s winter harvest. Still, great flavor and beautiful leaves. I got a hundred grams and I’m already wondering why I didn’t order more, which is what I wonder literally every time I buy Jin Xuan. You really cannot have too much of it.

I was terribly sad to hear Zen Tea isn’t going to sell any more tea this year once their supply runs out, especially since my all-time favorite, Coconut Oolong, is already out of stock. The prices are so good right now, though, that I snapped up a couple of things from them that I’ve never tried before, including this Taiwan Ruby. Typically unflavored black teas are not my favorite, but whenever I have visitors I find that is what they ask to drink, so I try to keep an eye out for nice ones.

This one is very smooth and has a pleasant maltiness. I think I messed up the directions, because I see on the website they recommend using 2 heaping tsp., but I just used 1 tsp. It was still flavorful, but it might be better if it was a little stronger.