Holiday Berry Green Tea

I’m not sure what about this says holiday, but it’s definitely a berry green tea. The green tea can be a little harsh for me, and the berry flavor is pretty artificial. I’m glad I only had the sample of this, but it wasn’t bad to drink.

Plum Deluxe Advent Calendar – Day 14

Well, I like the idea of berries and green tea. But I take pause whenever I see berry-flavored things because they almost always taste chalky and weird to me. Hopefully that’s not the case here…

Yeah, this is pretty much mixed berry Tums. It has a powdery chalkiness to it that I don’t enjoy. I think I can taste both blueberry and raspberry, but they’re a bit overpowered by the artificial powdery taste. I can’t really taste much of the green tea? Maybe just a little bit of toasted seaweed-like umami. I probably should have steeped it longer.

Also, how is a blueberry and raspberry green tea “holiday”?!

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(today’s advent teas: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIyI3bGAi3z/)

Advent Day 14

The smell of this tea dry totally makes me think of salad dressing! It’s got to be some combo of the berries or something I have logged in my brain as raspberry vinaigrette. I get berries in the sip, but there is an ashy flavor too. Maybe that’s the pine? I don’t know if it’s my brain or the tea that can’t decide what it’s supposed to be: sweet or savory. This tea confuses my brain!

Oof, it’s a Winter Wonderland here today! I am not a fan of the white stuff, and was just thankful I found enough time to brew a hot cuppa to drag out the door with me on my way to work…

At first, the flavor was very cotton candy-esque… a sweet, generic berry sort of flavor. And I’m still getting that, a bit, except now I’m tasting a sort of piney note toward the end of the sip. I’m not even sure what would cause that, since my (vague) recollection of the ingredients on the package before I left for work didn’t show anything that would attribute that note (I know I stuck the empty packet in my pocket so I could double-check once I made it to work and had a chance to actually drink my tea/write a note, but uh… it’s now not in my pocket. I wonder where it went…? Ah well…) So ya… a sweet, fruity, artificial/candy berry flavor, followed by a more subtle brisk/fresh/menthol-tasting pine. I would really like the berry/pine combo if the berry were juicy/tart and not candy-like. These two notes together are a bit strange to me… cotton candy itself I like, pine I like, not sure how I feel about the two together. But I’ll happily drink it because that’s the thermos of hot tea I have to drink.

Plum Deluxe Advent Day 14

A festive blend! A green tea! Very happy to see this blend today. It also looks like it’s an advent exclusive?
Smells like a melange of sticky sweet berries.
I’m tasting a smokiness I wasn’t expecting. Once the smokiness fades, it’s a lovely light blueberry flavor.