This is the last of this past week’s new Spring releases and, honestly, the name sums it up quite well. It’s a coconut tea on a white tea base. Well, actually a blended base of white and green tea. A very simple, pure take on coconut – something we get requests for a lot.
I think what I like most about this tea is its flexibility. It’s not really sweet, nor is is particularly a coconut cream flavour. Instead it’s refreshing, lightly buttery and sort of more light to medium bodied. It makes for a really smooth and still flavourful brew when you have it hot and plain, but with room to add sweetener or milk/alt milk to amp up the richness if that’s what you’re looking for. As a latte, it can be quite indulgent but if you make it iced (or as a tea pop) it’s more on the refreshing side and almost more comparable to a coconut water. So, something you can for sure play around with the suit your mood.
Plus, I just HAVE to call out the coconut shreds in the blend. In my opinion, they are visually the most beautiful coconut pieces we’ve ever used in a tea. Thick shreds with a bit of the husk on the end. They just look amazing, and as they steep that coconut fat adds a subtle sort of silkiness to the mouthfeel of the blend that I like a lot.
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 and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.