Vanilla Swirl

Tea type
Herbal Tea
Ingredients
Lemongrass, Natural Flavours, Pineapple, White Chocolate
Flavors
Cream, Lemon, Meringue, Smooth, Sweet, Vanilla, Lemongrass, Pineapple, Cake, Citrus
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Perry Papadopoulos
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 6 min, 0 sec 7 g 15 oz / 442 ml

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  • “I was so sad when I finished my tin of this tea a few weeks ago…so I bought eight more ounces, and now all is right in the world (: I add a bunch of sugar, so it’s quite sweet. I really didn’t...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Trick or Treat! I picked up this sampler from Ost’s cupboard sale, thank you Ost! It’s an herbal blend so I made this as my desserty before-bed cuppa tonight. I was a bit worried by the abundance...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Like most commentors here, I expected this to be way different. How can a tea full of lemongrass taste like ice cream? Welp, it doesn’t. But it isn’t bad. It’s got a summery lemon-y flavor that I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I am very confused when it comes to this tea. My senses deceive me and not in a good way; even the name plays tricks with my expectations. I was very excited for this tea. The name alone brings joy...” Read full tasting note
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From DAVIDsTEA

Whether you call it “soft ice” like the Scandinavians, “merry cream” like the Lebanese or “soft whip” like the Irish, we can all agree that vanilla soft serve ice cream is a timeless and delicious dessert. So it was only a matter of time before we brought the most popular ice cream flavour in world to your teacup. This decadent infusion has all the creamy vanilla sweetness of the soft serve cone you first fell in love with as a kid. The only difference? We left out the calories and added a swirl of lemongrass. Sweet!

Ingredients: Lemongrass, pineapple (pineapple, cane sugar, citric acid, s ulfur dioxide), white chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, whey powder, lactose, soy lecithin, natural vanilla), globe amaranth, cornflower, stevia extract, natural flavouring.

Price: $8.98 per 50g

About DAVIDsTEA View company

DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

32 Tasting Notes

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6105 tasting notes

(DavidsTea 40)

Still delicious lemony, creamy, vanilla. I’ll be sad when it’s gone.

AJRimmer

One of my favorites!

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6444 tasting notes

Latte Sipdown (294)

This is an alright latte. Lots of creamy lemon notes and the stevia seems to be drowned out. However, this is by no means a vanilla tea so it sorta falls short for me.

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316 tasting notes

This was the tea I was most hesitant to try. I was quite surprised to find out it does kind of taste like vanilla ice cream, but the longer I steeped it, I’m getting more of the lemongrass, which is nice. I’m not big on vanilla, so this is good. Possibly might even be better iced or as a latte. Overall this isn’t a bad tea. Don’t think I’d buy more though.

Flavors: Lemongrass, Sweet, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec

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561 tasting notes

This tea confuses me…at first taste, I was like “oh yum, tastes just like a vanilla ice cream kinda.” Then I was like “ok, it tastes more like lemon with a hint of vanilla now.” Then near the end, I was back to, yes, it kind of tastes like a vanilla swirl with a hint of cone." It was magic changing flavors like that. A good cuppa tea though.

*update: Tried it as a hot latte and it was delicious-I could taste the “wafer” cone part of the vanilla swirl. Also tried it as an iced latte and tastes like a vanilla milkshake.

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1908 tasting notes

I can’t say that any of the new malt shop teas had me excited but they were sampling this tea at my local Davids Tea store today so I decided to give it a try. Honestly I didn’t care that much for the plain tea, there’s a nice vanilla lemongrass flavour at the start but then the stevia hits and it’s just too much sweetness for me. I realize that stevia isn’t an artificial sweetener but to me it still tastes wrong and I can always tell when it’s been used in place of sugar in something, regardless of the amount used. My take on sweeteners in tea is that I’d rather have natural sugar or honey and add it myself, that way I can control the amount that goes in.

I commented on this to the salesperson (who knows me by name – obviously I spend too much time there) and she recommended trying it as a latté. She’s made some good recommendations before so I decided to give it a shot and I was pleasantly surprised. The steamed milk dampens that weird too-sweet taste and allows a rich, creamy vanilla flavour to come out.

I would rate the plain tea as 65/100 and the latté version as 80/100.

VariaTEA

I guess I know how I’ll be making the last of the sample I got. Plain this is just way too cloying.

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I had this as a tea of the day while I was at the store today. I went to pick up the newest Davidsteas – but something that struck me as odd about this one was that it’s called VANILLA swirl but it contains lemongrass and pineapple!
I felt bad for the kid working the counter, I’m like BUT HOW CAN IT BE VANILLA WITH LEMONGRASS AND PINEAPPLE?!? Sorry dude, I’m one of those tea nutjobs your coworkers have probably warned you about.
It certainly didn’t smell like vanilla – it smelled like lemon. Colour me shocked.

Now, it was yummy. It was creamy and light…and LEMON. Actually, if we could just call this a lemon tea I’d be like that tea is delicious…but let’s stop calling it vanilla, ok?

Eventually this will go on clearance, and I’ll pick some up.

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15006 tasting notes

VariaTEA gave me a small sample of this one. I have to say….vanilla swirl, this is not. Does the tea have a vanilla taste to it? sure…it’s not strong…mostly this is a vanilla lemongrass tea imo. i mean..sure..i’ll finish this off, but colour me disappointed.

VariaTEA

I felt the same. It was pretty lackluster and didn’t really deliver.

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15575 tasting notes

Yet another collection launched today; this time the Malt Shop collection which features three ice cream inspired teas – this one, a herbal, and two greens called Mint Chip Sundae and Strawberry Shake. This was the first one I sampled because it was the one I was most intrigued by – in large part because it was the only non green tea.

I tried this one iced and I have to say, for a tea called “Vanilla Swirl”, there’s not much vanilla flavour going on here. In fact, there’s not much flavour in general to this tea. It’s just very, very delicate with the faintest presence of the lemongrass, pineapple, and white chocolate. In that order, as well. I think a more accurate name would have been Lemon Froyo or something like that? Because definitely seems more on the lemon side of the spectrum than creamy vanilla. Inaccuracy to the name aside, though, I didn’t hate this one. I mean, it does ring in as my least favourite of the collection but when you discard the incorrect name it’s a nice, subtle lemongrass tea with some faint creaminess.

Though, I was hoping this would make for a good vanilla latte and I just don’t see that happening – the delicate flavour would get completely drowned by the milk.

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 regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

Michelle

Haha looks like they messed up with naming this one then. I will still try it when I get the chance. I don’t like vanilla anyway.

Arby

I hope I love this one, it sounds quite tasty. I’m worried I’ll just taste lemongrass though. Too bad, I was really rooting for rootbeer flat to come back. Maybe this summer?

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127 tasting notes

I sampled this in-store. I was really wary about it because I’ve had bad experiences with herbal infusions before. First sip – all I could taste was pineapple. That ruined the tea for me, because I dislike pineapple as both a fruit and a flavour. However, I drank what was left in my cup and held it in my mouth a bit longer – eventually I did get the impression of soft serve vanilla ice cream, as advertised.

Long story short, I don’t like this tea, but that’s due to personal preference.

Flavors: Pineapple, Vanilla

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