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“I was pretty excited to see this as the freebie teabag from Lupicia this month. I love trying random tea flavors like this and I loved Adagio’s version until I met Samovar’s Yunnan Golden Buds...” Read full tasting note
“FINALLY! Me and Lupicia Sweet Potato Pie get to meet! I am sooooo happy to finally have this in my stash! I will covet it! I wish I could get more I absolutely love this. I was not very pleased...” Read full tasting note
“Having never tasted Sweet Potato Pie, I can’t tell you how close to the real thing this tea actually is, but, I can say that this is quite good. I’ve also tried the Sweet Potato Pie from Adagio,...” Read full tasting note
“I was shocked to see that a company other than Adagio would think up something as crazy as this… and even more shocked they beat Frank to it. WHOA!!! The aroma… Granted I’ve never smelled sweet...” Read full tasting note
A black tea blend with a generous portion of creamy Japanese sweet potatoes. The buttery sweet aroma will remind you of a cozy holiday gathering.
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I’m intrigued by the smell of this tea. I’m getting bits of berry & something creamy. It’s sort of like a raspberry liquor chocolate. It smells like another tea I’ve had before, but I can’t remember which! The scent somehow transfers to the taste. Berries and chocolate against a smooth tea background. I think the sweet potato comes out as an aftertaste… more of a texture in the back of your throat and on your tongue. It is a bit drying and starchy and I am curiously impressed! Even though I don’t taste sweet potato in particular, my taste buds are happy. I don’t think I would drink this daily.. just because the dry/starchy sensation is slightly overwhelming. You have to sort of prepare your mouth and throat for some irritation. Thank you to Amy oh for a sample!
Sweet potato pie! How cute! :) The dry leaves do smell strongly of its ingredients – sweet potato and butter (the latter is so strong that it smells a bit like cheese!). It’s an extraordinarily creamy aroma, so rich that I think I can get fat just by inhaling it! When brewed the aroma softens and becomes less overwhelming. Taste-wise it is slightly sweet, with a savoury, buttery undercurrent. I can really taste the sweet potato – though not the flavour of real sweet potato but more like that of sweet potato sundae. Overall I find this tea special and likeable. It’s going to be a perfect winter drink with a bit of warm milk. Too bad this is only a sample…
I really wanted to like this one, but I just can’t. It has a weird and off-putting chemical aroma, and while that note’s much subdued in the flavor it’s not entirely absent. Otherwise, I’m mostly getting what seems to be a slightly smoky base (or maybe that’s the whiskey flavoring?). I don’t get sweet potato, or much in the way of sweetness. In fact, I’ve had unflavored teas that tasted way more like sweet potato than this one does. It could be that I’ve let this sample sit too long, but whatever the reason this one isn’t doing it for me at all. Thanks to Dustin for letting me sample it, since I would’ve been pretty disappointed if I’d ordered a whole bag!
Heh heh heh! It is a weird one, isn’t it! I didn’t like it much at first, but it did end up growing on me. Now I taste that base in other Lupicia teas like Cookie. Glad I didn’t get the chemical flavors you did!
Yeah, I don’t know what it was—maybe something to do with the whiskey flavoring? It’s funny, because I usually dislike Lupicia’s black base but it seemed pretty okay here (if only by comparison with how much other aspects were not okay!). But I did think the base worked well in Cookie, so maybe I just don’t like it with fruit flavoring.
This tea needs a little sugar to do it for me. Once it it sweetened, it has a really nice creamy starch like flavor. I added a little soy creamer and it is even more creamy delicious! The base has a similar taste as some other Lupicia blends. I enjoy this tea, but it isn’t one that I turn to often or am wowed by and with that in mind I’m trying to convince myself that I don’t need to buy it again right now and should try other teas. It just pains me to think that it might not be there on the off chance that I crave it. I don’t need ALL the teas. I don’t need ALL the teas. I don’t need ALL the teas. Come on will power!
I’ve never had a sweet potato pie or casserole, so I really couldn’t tell you how this ranks up with the real thing.
But it is a good cup of tea, so there’s that.
It has a sweet starchy quality, and tastes like caramelized sweet potato and honey. There’s a mild amount of creaminess in the cup, as well. And even with the all the flavors coming through, the tea does as well. I don’t always like Lupicia’s black base, but I think it went really well with this one. The astringency in the cup just slightly reminds me of a starchy dryness.
I remember trying Adagio’s Sweet Potato pie waaaay back when it first came out, and I unfortunately can’t remember much about it. I don’t recall it being this sweet,but iI’m not necessarily comfortable making comparisons.
Thanks for the sample Dustin!
Thank you Dustin for sharing this with me. I have never actually tried a sweet potato pie but it sounded like a tea that would be different from the typical fruity, caramel, vanilla teas I tend to drink. I was certainly right about that and it is different in the best way possible! It is unique but still with elements familiar enough that I can see myself drinking this often. It is buttery, it is sweet, it maybe even has a caramel-like quality but the sweet potato is also distinct and provides a nice quality to the cup. This is one I would order in a heartbeat. In fact, so is Cookie, the only other Lupicia tea I have tried. Now I want MORE! Bring on the Lupicia!!
In other news, my friend really did NOT like this tea. She felt it tasted like a mediocre plain black where as I am getting a lot of flavor. Gotta love how people can have such polarized reactions to the exact same tea :)
I need to try more from Lupicia :)
They are 2/2 so far. That definitely has me intrigued.
I am SO excited to hear that you’re getting into Lupicia. If I had to stick to one single tea company for the rest of my life, Lupicia would be it.
Dustin was kind enough to send me samples of two different teas and they have both been amazing. Also, Sil stuck a teabag of Cookie into our swap which I was very happy to have more of. Now I have a mission to try more as I really enjoyed the ones I have had so far. I guess I will add Lupicia to my list of places to order from :P. What are your favorites from them btw?
I’m glad you liked it! I just placed two orders with Lupicia recently. The first one came with a sample of their Momoko and it was so amazing I lost impulse control and placed another order the other day. I have never had a peach tea that I really enjoyed before and this one was super flavorful and juicy. They were also out of Cookie when I placed my first order, so I had to add that one… and two or three more. So bad.
My order shipped today, but once it gets in I can send you some samples of those and some of the others I have if you like. Then you will know what you like and should order and I’ll feel less guilty for buying more tea when I already have enough to fill a couch with. Man, that would be one great smelling couch!
Aw, Dustin, I’m so excited to read that! Momoko is a huge favourite of mine.
My faves are Cookie, obviously (the only tea I’ve given a solid 100 rating) and their BEAUTIFUL flavoured oolongs. Ripe mango, Momo (like Momoko in oolong form), Melon, etc.
I also really, really love their flavoured greens – Tsugaru Green is the best apple tea I’ve had, and Bravissimo! is one of my all-around favourite teas.
Oh, and their toasted teas, like that apricot houjicha.
They’re just really good, haha.
Oooooo, I haven’t had all those Anna! I haven’t had many oolongs so it isn’t a base I gravitate towards. I like that they have different base options for their flavors, but I wonder how much they differ from each other.
Have you had Nina’s Marie Antoinette? That was the most impressive apple tea I have had. I’d love to know how it compares with Tsugaru.
I have had two or three flavored houjichas before and liked them. I’ll have to try Lupicia’s sometime. I can see another order in the making already. :/
Dustin, I might actually take you up on that because I want to try ALL their teas. You are welcome to look through my cupboard and we can arrange another swap :)
And Anna, I am not a lover of oolong but Sil made their Melon Oolong sound AMAZING!
No, Nina’s drive me sort of nuts (rant starts here) because they’ve ignored my questions SIX times – I have seriously e-mailed them six times without receiving a response, which makes me wildly cranky (rant over).
And I hear you – the only thing keeping me from not ordering more tea is the sheer bulk of my cupboard. I need to swap more…
Also, I just saw the message about Marie Antoinette too and it might be my favorite apple as well.
Anna, I have only had amazing experiences with Nina’s so I don’t understand why they are being super annoying to you.
I know, everyone is head over heels with Nina’s, so I have no idea how we manage to have zero karma.
And it’s true, the melon oolong is quite something (don’t miss keychange’s review) but if you can’t deal with oolong at all, there’s a white melon tea that works as an excellent substitute.
White melon…I will have to look into that. Thank you. Also, Anna, if you ever want to swap, I am always happy to share my teas (though I am a bit far from Rome :P).
It’s very flavourful for a white tea.
And sure, I’m always up for a swap – I do more trans-Atlantic ones than European, it seems, haha.
Probably because there are A LOT of Canadians on here. Canadians and Americans seem to account for the bulk of members. Or perhaps I only tend to interact with the people from US and Canada since when I started, I only posted on the US/Can. swap board…
Well, this is highly unscientific, but if you go by internet penetration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users) tea culture vitality, and Steepster’s location, language and average target group, it’s not overly surprising.
Haha I suppose not :P
Now I’m looking at their Japanese website to see what exclusive teas they have there! I need to stop this madness. They have Hello Kitty tea. And it looks like they had Halloween tea last year?!?!! Talk about two things I love!
Anna, I don’t know why the words wildly and cranky make me laugh when put together, but they do. Have you tried emailing them from a different address? I wonder if your emails are caught in some sort of filter and aren’t getting to them.
VariaTEA, I just saw your post in the swap thread and responded with the teas that looked interesting to me. I’m a little curious about David’s Pistachio Cream, but I’m worried that I will love it and have to buy 250g of it since that is the only size they are selling it in now.
Haha Dustin, you are serious about trying ALL the Lupicia, aren’t you? Also, did you want just samples of the teas or the full amounts? Actually, I will just send you a message.
Yes, three addresses. And Japanese Lupicia is a WONDERLAND!!!
You have SEEN it?! I would loose my mind. My husband keeps throwing around ideas of places for us to travel asking me things like “Would you want to visit Paris?” and my response is often based on that country’s reputation for tea. I don’t know how I would control myself while tea shopping in Paris.
For reals. My partner’s visiting family in Japan right now, and when he asks what I’d like him to bring back for me, I’m tempted to change my answer from “just being reunited with you is all my heart could ever ask for,” to “TEA. ALL THE TEA. PLEASE BRING ME TEA. YOU MIGHT NEED TO BUY A NEW SUITCASE JUST TO FILL WITH TEA. I LOVE YOU PLEASE BRING TEA.”
(And I am so taking us tea shopping in Paris when I, Gosh willing, get a full-time job)
I wish I had known about Lupicia (or umm maybe that a store existed where I was travelling) when I went to Japan. :)
Sami, the answer is ALWAYS tea. Always. :D
Sami, if your partner is hitting up a Lupicia store, can we place orders with him? A tea mule in Japan would be fantastic!
I’m mostly kidding about turning your partner into a tea mule btw. Mostly. :)
Ah, sweet potato pie… I can taste sweet potato but I don’t think pie when I drank it. The bag got a little squished when I had it so a lot of little dust particles floating in my tea so it was pretty dark for a 3 minute steep, not sure if that’s the right color. Tastes ok, but not something I’d get more of.
This tea is like a more savoury, “drier” version of Lupicia’s Sweet Autumn rooibos. Because it’s a black tea, it has the strong body and substantial mouthfeel that I love about Lupicia’s flavours (meal in a mug!)I expected it to have a bit more spice to it, but like others have said, it really is spot-on with the starchy sweet potato flavour. I have to add more sugar than I usually put in tea in order to enjoy this one, though. I guess the whole “pie” thing led me to think it would be more of a dessert tea when it really is quite savoury. Not bad, but not as tasty as I anticipated.
i’m glad you liked it ok – it is kind of weird