Nordic Berry

I ordered this when it was on special in order to bring up my total so I could get free shipping. I found the brilliant pink package a little offputting, and when I opened it I wasn’t too excited about the aroma, either. However, I’m happy to say that it tastes just great! Not too sweet, not too much hibiscus, just a nice tart berry flavour.

Ha this tea is so unremarkable. I only keep a few teas open at once so they all maintain optimal freshness, but even so, I managed to completely forget this one existed. In past cups, I’ve found it to be generally red fruity and boring. As I get to the end of the tin, it’s becoming more herbaceous than I prefer and a little too sour also. Not a fan.

Nothing special about it. It’s good but i have better on my tea wall right now

New(ish) tea!

This one has technically been out for a little while now as its in some of the Winter subscription boxes – I’m just slow to taking the time to write about it.

Personally I really enjoy this tea, and have since my first time tasting it. There’s a fair amount going on in terms of ingredients – sea buckthorn, lingonberry, and a medley of other fruits as well. However, despite that I find the taste quite simple and calm. It’s majority generic red fruit but with a slight citrusy edge to it – but I think what, at least for me, sets it apart from most red fruit teas and tisanes is that it’s pretty gentle/soft in terms of flavour and there’s no hibiscus either.

I think DT has a lot of really nice “red fruit” herbal blends. Certainly some favourites of my own include Hibiscus Splash and Frozen Raspberry. However, despite liking these teas a lot I often find them very intense or rich/heavy handed and they aren’t something I would personally reach for on consecutive days or back to back; it’s just a bit much. However, this tea manages to capture those fruity flavours I love while because gentle and unsweet enough to not give me flavour fatigue. For that reason, it’s become something I enjoy a lot late at night after a day of heavy flavoured tea drinking because I still get my flavour fix but it’s not super intense.

The name of the blend mostly comes from being a nod to the lingonberry used, but I also like to think of it as a cheeky nod to Swedish Berry candies because I do find it to be like a more natural and soothing less “candy sweet” version of a Swedish Berry in taste. I guess it works on multiple levels, because lingonberries are Swedish as well!

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(DavidsTea 183)

Hmm, I was interested in this a bit although it has a very generic ingredients list – turns out it is indeed fairly generically fruity-citrus. Enough that I actually don’t quite remember what I thought of it. Too bad!