Strawberry Kiwi Capri

Last new summer tasting note for the evening!

This is my personal favourite of the new collection of teas and, well, I have been drinking a lot of lately. It’s on a white tea base and though I would personally like there to be a little more white tea I do think we got the balance right in a way that still stays true to the light and delicate feeling of white tea while having distinct flavours that are juicy and not thin/bland. The most disappointing white tea blends (at least in my opinion) are the ones that taste watered down instead of simply delicate… There’s a difference between those two things.

I would say strawberry is definitely the stronger flavour between it and the kiwi. You get more of a strawberry juice (like, well, Capri Sun) taste on the front end of the sip and body that evening transitions into a little more of the cheeky kiwi finishing flavours. It’s not missed in the cup, but just a gradual shift over the coarse of tasting. There is sugar in the blend, but I think there’s definitely a difference between it taste sweet verse tasting sugary/cloying and I feel like we’ve done a good job of avoiding the latter.

My recommendation for steeping this tea would be to stick with a shorter steep time and lower water temp if you want a bit more of a delicate flavour with more of the white tea coming out. However, if you want something juicy and a bit more iceable go with a long steep with hotter water. The tea can take it!

So yeah. Hot. Iced. Cold Brewed. I just can’t seem to get enough of this one…

Tea Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcVmfvku5Fz/

Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKPAhSV_y0&ab_channel=DavidDeanBurkhart

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(DavidsTea 2022: 96)

Storytime: So, the other day someone posted in the DT subscription club FB group with some of the new and unreleased summer teas – I had no idea where they found them, and the post was deleted before I actually had the chance to read it. However, it made me go snooping, and I found the summer tea menu online on the DT site, and then when I searched for some of the new teas…. they were already on the website (and, I also found a handful of others simply by luck of choosing the correct search terms)! So I made an order of 9 presumably unreleased teas (2 returning, 7 new). This was a few days ago now, so I’ve received my order and I believe at least a couple of these teas, including this one, have now been officially released, but I’m feeling both devious and confused at how I was able to locate and order these teas already. (There were another 3, 2 new and 1 returning, that I opted to order later, and at least one other new tea is now on the site that wasn’t when I made my order.)

So yes. Lots of new teas to try, and also scolding from husband regarding volume of tea purchases. Haha.

This is the first I tried: it smells candy-sweet and I’m delighted that it doesn’t contain stevia (though it does contain sugar). It’s a little fakey tasting, but definitely strawberry (and kiwi too, whether or not that’s just power of suggestion). I did enjoy it, but especially the aroma that wafts from the cup – I kept smelling it throughout the day, presumably from the infuser, and my mouth watered every time. Won’t be a repurchase from me but I feel like it’s going to be a popular summer tea.