Tea type
Black Tea
Ingredients
Bergamot, Black Tea, Blue Cornflowers, Caramel, Hazelnut, Orange Peels
Flavors
Bergamot, Caramel, Vanilla, Cream, Nuts, Orange Zest, Nutty, Licorice
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Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec 10 oz / 305 ml

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  • “I would like to apologize for my lack of reviews in the past couple of days/weeks. I’ve been super busy but come the end of April I’ll have more time to write on here. Trust me, I’ve still been...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Sipdown (211/214)! Time for the daily backlog of teas now that Tre’s gone to bed and left me with his computer. Not much eventful today, no new listing for me to apply for which was sad though I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Oddly, I thought I’d tried this one out already. It seems I’ve just parsed out some to the lot of you. ;) This smells a lot like the TARDIS blends. It’s definitely got an EG feel to it, plus some...” Read full tasting note
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  • “i do not…. understand. i got not licorice. i got no orange. i got caramel? caramel…. is that you? where have you been? have you been hiding out with adagio playing favourites with MissB? if so, i...” Read full tasting note
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From Adagio Custom Blends, Cara McGee

Only time will heal your broken heart. Maybe this tea will at least bring a little comfort until Sherlock reappears.

This is purely indulgent. My favorite tea for a while has been Earl Grey bravo, with a dash of hazelnut syrup (it’s what I order at coffee shops when I go with my friends, since I don’t drink coffee). It’s a very comforting taste to me, and the flavors all go surprisingly well together. It’s a bit like fresh baked cookies.

Created by: Cara McGee

Ingredients: black tea, orange, natural bergamot flavor, blue cornflowers, natural hazelnut flavor & natural caramel flavor

Steeping Instructions: Steep at 212° for 2 mins.

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149 tasting notes

Cookies, anyone?

That’s basically what this tea smells and tastes like when brewed. Sugar cookies, if I had to be specific about cookie types. (Note that I didn’t have this with sugar or milk, so it was more like an unsweetened cookie, but still cookie-like all the same).

At first, I was worried that the Earl Grey would overpower the hazelnut and caramel, but they all mesh together into a wonderful, soothing tea that is perfect to drink when comfort is needed. The Earl Grey is the easiest flavour to pick out, but the caramel and hazelnut seem to subtly balance out the bergamot.

If drinking tea is like a conversation, this tea would basically be a very big hug!

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812 tasting notes

appropriately drinking this tea as i read this http://archiveofourown.org/works/324584?view_full_work=true
the scent of this tea is very strange to me, sweet but ‘off’. and it intrigues me over and over.
i think i like it?
i’ll have to get back to you on that.

CHAroma

I completely agree with you. The scent is sweet but off.

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1 tasting notes

This is my absolute favorite tea. Ever. I drink an obscene quantity of tea, and have done since I was about four years old, and this one has been my go-to since I opened my very first bag of it last spring. The earl grey is beautiful and crisp (as always with Adagio teas, I’m pleasantly delighted with their quality and freshness), but adding the caramel and hazelnut brings a gorgeous smoothness to it that I was worried would be over sweet. It isn’t at all. I can drink this tea any time, any way, any day of any week. It’s wonderful in cold weather with a dash of milk and a little sweetener. It’s glorious iced in the summer with a bit of honey. I’ve gone through more bags of this tea than any other on the planet, and I am beyond grateful it’s still up and available for purchase. I might have to stock pile some just in case.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec
yyz

I love earl grey and hazelnut together. I’m unlikely to get this tea because of Adagio’s obscene price to ship to Canada, but I enjoy blending a nutty caramel I have with an EG, so I can imagine this is really good.

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19 tasting notes

This one smells heavenly! Not quite like a batch of cookies out of the oven, but pretty close. It didn’t really taste like anything special without milk or honey; after adding them both, though, it was incredible. I’m still trying to figure out exactly why that brought out the best flavours in it. In any case, this makes a delicious, comforting dessert tea. I wish I’d had more of it in my sample pack.

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19 tasting notes

Perfect tea is perfect. This is everything I have ever wanted in a tea. It’s flavorful but not overpowering, the flavors mix together perfectly (especially when enhanced with cream and sugar), and it smells like a bakery. So tasty, my goodness. I just love it. If I had to choose one tea to drink for the rest of my life, this would be it, to be honest.

Preparation
5 min, 0 sec

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16 tasting notes

I tried this with the blender’s recommended recipe for “sick tea” once. It involve steeping the tea in hot milk and stirring in a little bit of butter. This is just a really comforting cup of tea for cold, rainy or snowy mornings or if you need something really mellow.

Flavors: Bergamot, Caramel

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 15 sec 8 OZ / 236 ML

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23 tasting notes

I enjoy this tea. It’s actually the tea that made me fall in love with tea so I always keep it in my pantry. This tea is a lovely comforting cup of tea in the afternoon. It’s perfect with just a small touch of milk and sugar.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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13 tasting notes

This tea can be overwhelming. Since I discovered that I have a caffeine sensitivity, I keep this down to 1/2 tsp. 3/4 if I need the caffeine… but no more then that. It is a good tea! I would use this one in moderation, though.

Flavors: Caramel, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 2 min, 0 sec

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188 tasting notes

I’ve had this before. Going through my stash of samples and this one smelled good.. and a plus side, it’s a sipdown. Shortly after I arrived here on Steepster MissB was so generous to send me samples to try… This was one of them. I have so much trouble drinking the last cup of something that I think I like when I know I won’t likely reorder soon.

I remember enjoying this one, but didn’t have refined tea taste buds when I first tried it. I have to say it tastes very different to me now. I didn’t taste the complexities of it before. I get bergamot, and orange peel mostly (of which the orange peel comes as a kind of bitterness at the end of the sip), maybe a bit of vanilla, and if I really think about it, maybe some nutty dryness at the end of the sip. As I near the end of the cup I get more nutty flavor, and maybe that caramel, maybe. Kind of strange to get both bergamot and orange peel in the same cup and being able to detect them both. Trying to decide if they compete with each other.. Hmm..

I think

Flavors: Bergamot, Caramel, Nutty, Orange Zest, Vanilla

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615 tasting notes

I’m finding the Earl Grey kind of overiding the other flavors that are supposed to be here. I’ve grown to like bergamot over the last couple months, so this is okay. I just wish I got the comforting notes of caramel and hazelnut. They kind of sneak up in the aftertaste, but I didn’t really find them prensent in the sip itself. I ended up adding sugar and milk trying to find the sweeter flavors, but that didn’t help much either. Of course, milk and sugar in EG is pretty swell regardless.

Thanks Shmiracles!

“You… you told me once that you weren’t a hero. Umm, there were times I didn’t even think you were human. But let me tell you this, you were the best man, the most human… human being that I’ve ever known, and no-one will ever convince me that you told me a lie, so there. I was so alone, and I owe you so much. But, please, there’s just one more thing, one more thing, one more miracle, Sherlock, for me. Don’t be… dead. Would you do that just for me? Just stop it. Stop this.”

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 6 OZ / 177 ML
Nattie

This is one of the blends I most want to try in the world!! Also, you kinda made me tear up a little with the quote there. That speech will never fail to reduce me to tears. Poor John ):

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