297 Tasting Notes

drank S'mores by Della Terra Teas
297 tasting notes

I think I ruined it. I didn’t follow steeping instructions and steeped for nearly 5 mins. My regular for a black tea.

The dry notes smell choclate and marshmallowy. But not or the real variety. A little artificial. I have to say though as it sits beside me after its done steeping it smells like a real s’more is sitting there.

My first two sips were good, not great. I had let it cool significantly. The chocolate is there (I find it artifical like), and then you’re hit with the creamy, gooeyness of marshmallow. I’m not getting Tue graham cracker though. (I wonder what would happen if I added a lil of Whispering Pines graham cracker Rooibos to it?)

My subsequent sips were bitter and very much just black tea. I let it cool too much.
What I do like about this tea over say Teaopia’s s’mores tea, is that the marshmallows actually melt.
Hmm also thinking about trying this on the stove in milk.

I won’t give this a numerical rating until I can try it again at a shorter steep time.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 15 sec

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7

This is probably the prettiest tea I’ve had, both the dry leaves and the steeped tea. The red candy sprinkles make it shine and then once steeped the tea is shimmery.

The dry notes smell rather perfumy, I had to sample one of the chunks of apple and a piece of caramel. They also taste perfumey.

The steeped tea smells the same as the dry notes, like perfume. Unfortunetly the tea tastes pretty much the same. Perfume! Yuck. There are hints of caramel and apple, but I couldn’t get past the perfume taste. O had to ditch the tea. Too had :(

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec
LiberTEAS

That’s too bad. So sad when one comes across a tea that just doesn’t work out for them. :(

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51

Stupid phone ate my tasting note…. grrrrrr

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 7 min, 0 sec
softrevolution

Hate that :(

Claire

Oh no!

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78

I got this in a swap from itachi

This smells like that artificial honey I’ve mentioned before. I can see the pistachio, yum.

Once steeped this tastes mostly like honey, but kind of like caramelized honey, if that makes any sense. This is a nice honey tea, quite good. I just wish it had all the layers as the name suggests. It could be so much more, bakey and like pistachios. I think this one will be good with milk too.

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 15 sec

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80

My Whispering Pines order is here woooohooooo. So everything kinda smells spicy chai like from my coconut chai and peppermint chai. I split them all up to alliviate some of tue spice from the ones that werent supposed to he chai like. I accidentally order two ounces of this instead of one. I only wanted to try it because of the Rooibos.

I tried this one first because its bedtime and I need an herbal at this hour. I’m pretty well only getting a cinnamon scent from this one. Ergh as it steeps so much Rooibos smell… Damn you Rooibos.

This is definetly nice tasting, Tue Rooibos flavour isn’t really there, which is grea. I’m mostly getting a cinnamon taste like the dry notes. I’m definetly not getting graham cracker , but its nice and light. Great for evenings since I’m so sensitive to caffeine.

I’m going to try like Amanda said the next time and add a little honey to it.

Preparation
Boiling 6 min, 45 sec
Whispering Pines Tea Company

Definitely add a bit of honey. I thought about putting honey granules in this blend but I know a lot of people prefer their own honey, so I suggest that :)

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94

I feel that I received this from Alphakitty in a swap.
I requested this thinking buttery soft chocolates. I didn’t check the description so when I got it I was surprised by what I smelt and saw. Straight up butter with spices. I then realized truffles are also some other type of food, but can’t think of what it is.
Once I steeped this is smelt so butter like, and then you got some of the spice smell.

This is really unique and complex. I like it, a lot actually, which I’m surprised by. It’s super buytery and them freakin deliciously spicy, but not your typical tea spicy. I don’t get the pistachio or any sweetness from it. Purely savoury. This could easily replace a bag of chips for those nights that I’m craving salty things.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 15 sec
Azzrian

Goodness this sounds amazing!

Alphakitty

Oh, I am so glad you liked this one! It’s so unique and definitely not for everyone.

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94

I bought this because I figured it would be like DTs Oh Canada!

It smells like mapley goodness. I only bought 1oz because it’s a Rooibos. I love the leaves in the tea, so cute.

This tea is deliciously maple. It’s like when you would go on a field trip to the sugar bush and they’d pour the fresh maple syrup on the snow, then you’d twirl Tue hardening syrop onto a popsicle stick. Ahhh memories. I wish I had some real maple syrup to add to this, this should he an indulgent treat.

You get a bit of a woodsy taste with the maple (that’s the part that reminds me the most of the twirling syrup on the popsicle stick.). And the best part… no yucky Rooibos.

I bet this would be delicious with milk and would probably taste like maple fudge. Another win from my Della Terra order.

Preparation
Boiling 8 min or more

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100

Everyone’s review were the main reason I bought this tea. Oatmeal raisin cookies are my favourite kind of cookies, but only if they’re chewy.

The dry notes smell like cinnamon, bakey and like raisins (do raisins have a smell?). Oh geez, goodness already.

On first sip I get the bakeyness of the cookie, the cinnamon and the raoisin. Oh the layers of perfection. This is so good. This may be the most layered tea I’ve had. I want to chug the whole lug down, and yet I just want to sip it and slowly enjoyt it. I’m so torn.

You have got to try this. This tea very well be my Kew fav. So scrumptipus.

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 0 sec
Azzrian

This one is perfection!

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94

I got this in a swap from Sare, thank you!
The dry notes definitely smell like banana. But raisins in banana bread? I actually prefer my banana bread nutless. My Nanny makes the best banana bread.

The steeped notes smell bananaie, cake like and buttery. It even brewed up to look like melted butter. I allowed this to steep extra long because it was so light in colour.

This is really good. It’s like a piece of fresh banana bread with butter that has melted on it. It’s a little sweet for my liking, in the way of teas (which is weird, because I have a major sweet tooth), this almost rivals my Nanny’s banana bread and that’s definitely saying something.

Ick, there’s a yucky scum, powdery layer on the bottom.

I actually wanted to try my banana matcha which also came today (I got four packages in total today) but I knew the caffeine would probably keep me up.

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 15 sec
darby

Nice to see someone else that agrees with me….NUTS DO NOT need to be in bread! LOL Seems like everyone around me makes bread and cookies with nuts. UGH

momo

Isn’t there a saying somewhere about nuts ruining some type of cookie? It was something clever. Of course when I try to search it, Google is like “what are you even talking about, lady.”

Kittenna

I thought it was raisins! There’s a Fbook group or something that’s called something to the effect of “raisins, stay the eff out of my cookies!” (I like both raisins and nuts in things though!)

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drank Azteca Fire by Teavana
297 tasting notes

I got this in a swap, thanks * kallieboo*
So this is one I wanted to try, probably the most from Teavana. Once I smelt the dry notes it wasn’t what I expected. I figured it picked up the chocolate smell from another yea, my memory doesn’t serve me well, I didn’t remember this was suppose to be a chocolate tea.
I’m only getting a chcolate smell from the dry notes.
I used 3 perfect teaspoons for my 16 oz mug, as I usually do. Good thing too, because this is super light on flavour, something I’ve come to know from Teavana.
It tastes like hot chocolate made with water, which I don’t drink, my hot chocolate has to he made with milk. I’ll finish what I have I’d this tea, but I’m pretty sure I won’t buy it.
With the leaves I have left I think I will brew it up the chai way. On the stove with milk.

Preparation
Boiling 7 min, 15 sec

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