Easy Like Sunday Morning

Day 18 of the Plum Deluxe herbal advent calendar and so so tasty. I was skeptical about this flavor combo – floral and chocolate? But actually it works really well! Which makes sense, I like rose & chocolate as a flavor combo. I think it was specifically the lavender that threw me because lavender doesn’t have that sweetness that rose or even chamomile does. But! This combo works here! The lavender is strong and very floral, tiptoeing up to soapy territory but not actually getting there. The chocolate is robust and thankfully not oily. The overall effect is that I feel like I’m sipping a special, indulgent, relaxing treat.

I wanted to like this tea. Unfortunately, the chocolate-lavender combination is not working for me. It tastes artificial and weak. I think the tea would be better if they reduced the amount of chocolate and increased the lavender.

I’m having this with milk, and it’s quite the tasty combination! Gentle chocolate and a nice strong lavender. The rooibos complements everything well. Don’t go in expecting rich chocolate because that’s not what this one is going for. Its gentle flavors really, really work for me. The second steep is as tasty as the first.

Received this as a sample with my advent order, and though I usually really love lavender and chocolate paired together, this just isn’t working for me. The chocolate is pretty synthetic tasting, and the addition of the lavender is not helping things.

I received this as a sample from Plum Deluxe some time ago, only now getting around to it. I love chocolate and lavender as a flavor combination but have never seen any tea go down that route and was excited to see they had a chocolate lavender tea so of course I selected that as one of my samples to try. Thank you, Plum Deluxe! And this is a lazy, Sunday morning, so it seems appropriate, even if I do usually reach for caffeinated tea in the mornings and reserve my herbals for the evenings. I felt the mood for this and a cookie for breakfast… the sweet hankering hit me hard today, I guess!

I didn’t really like the aroma from the dry leaf, which smelled a bit artificial/alcoholic in the bag around the chocolate. But brewed up. that isn’t really coming out so strongly as it was letting off. The chocolate is a bit liquer-like when it hits the back of the tongue, but also more fudgy, in both aroma and flavor, but the lavender is a nice, strongly floral note that helps balance out some of the artificialties of chocolate-in-a-bottle flavorings. It carries a lot of weight here. The tea is fine on its own, but I think it would probably do a little better as a warm latte, as I think the creaminess would help it even more. Doubly so with a chocolate almond milk. That may be what I do with it next time.

So, I think the chocolate flavoring could be a bit better, but I am certainly happy there is a chocolate/lavender tea out there to scratch that itch, since it doesn’t do a terrible swing at it and I think it could be even more workable in a latte form.