Peachy Clean

Picked up the three new teas today at 20% off as we were conveniently by a DT… started off with this one. You’d never know it was a pu’erh – it steeps up quite yellow and smells of ginger and a hint of peach. Taste is similar – ginger in the forefront, a dash of peach, and a bit of earthiness. Not fond of the earthiness, though it’s not too strong. I’d consider this to mostly be a ginger tea with a couple added ingredients; it’s ok, but not my favourite. Not recommended for those who dislike ginger!

1.25 tsp for 300mL water @95C, steeped 4 minutes 30 seconds.

Dry leaf: lots and lots of fruit pieces and oat straw. Not much actual tea. The label says “low caffeine.” Yeah, I bet. This looks much more like a tisane than anything. And tisanes are fine. It’s just one of my peeves with DavidsTea: the blends generally contain very little tea. No pu-ehr aroma, which is fine with me, as pu-ehr and I, despite repeated attempts, just don’t get along. Lots of peachy scent.

Wet leaf: reconstituted apple pieces, wet oat straw, and … wait, is that a tea leaf? Much more ginger aroma to the wet leaf.

Liquor: cloudy yellow, like my urine when I have a kidney stone. I’m sorry for that analogy, but this is a very ugly liquor. I use a clear glass mug in part so I can see all the colours of a tea. Yeah, this one is NOT visually appealing. I’ll have to keep this one in a travel mug. (Note: sediment settles quickly, though the liquor remains cloudy. Yuck.)

Flavour: tartness and ginger first, followed by a decent peach flavouring, maybe some tartness-peel taste form the apple pieces. The ginger has some serious kick and is quite pleasant, but it dominates. Peach is a distant second, and it tends to get lost.

I can’t taste any tea — white, pu-ehr, or otherwise — in this blend. If I hadn’t read the label, I would assume this is a ginger peach tisane.

I agree with Roswell Strange; this blend needs a bit more heft and mouthfeel, something a bit creamy perhaps. I dunno, LIKE SOME ACTUAL TEA?

I expect this blend is excellent for digestion, and I would turn to this if nauseated. But it should be called Ginger Clean, not Peachy Clean. I’d also suggest that DavidsTea ditch the tiny amount of actual tea that’s what, just waved over this, call it a tisane, and be done.

Or do a proper peach white tea. I’d pay a lot of money for a good peach white tea.

In and of itself, a decent ginger blend. I knock of several points for misleading labelling and the appearance of the liquor.

Gongfu sessions aside, I think the cup of this taste I made early today was my favourite tea from the week. I’d truthfully forgotten that I still owned it up until this morning when I was looking for a different tea, and it really impressed me. I feel like it’s almost gotten better with age. Very earthy yet still spicy sweet ginger notes that playfully tickle and crawl up the back of the throat. It’s a clean kind of earthiness that makes me think of something sort of petrichor adjacent or like the smell right before a heavy summer rain. The peach was a little more jammy but not sugary; definitely different than the usual bright and juicy notes of most DT peach blends that have that subtle tinge of tang to them. Overall, it just really made me feel relaxed but there was enough spice and enough flavour to also push me forward during the day and keep me focused and on track for the work I was doing!

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.