Buttery Shortbread Herbal Tea

Yeahhh, no. This is like buttery mineral water.

The most prominent flavor in this is blackberry with a fake butter flavor. Kind of a creamy berry? Not terrible but definitely not what I expected from the name. I added a bit of sweetener to it. Overall it’s just kind of nondescript and I wouldn’t buy again. The more I drink it the more I get a sort of fake butter flavor from it which is a little stomach turning.

The flavor here isn’t great. It’s just a weird combination of flavorings. It tastes jumbled and strange and not at all like what it’s supposed to. With milk, it’s drinkable, but it’s really not right. There’s some pepperiness from the base along with strange flavoring. It’s hard to describe, but not good or accurate at all.

I love this one.

My bag and the website have different ingredients than are listed above.

They list: Honeybush Tea, Cocoa Peel, Blackberry Leaves, Flavor Essences, Love, Gratitude.

Great hot, iced or sparkling.

Plum Deluxe Advent Day 18
Still catching up…this is another blend I haven’t been looking forward to. Smells oddly fruity and sickeningly sweet. Tastes like butter and berries. Not sure where the berry flavor is coming from. Not getting any kind of pastry or shortbread flavor.

Plum Deluxe Advent Calendar – Day 18

I agree with Mastress Alita, the dry leaf definitely smells like cream cheese frosting…

Definitely not a fan. This is over-the-top artificial tasting… I can taste the honeybush underneath, and it has a peppery note to it that conflicts with the flavoring. As for the flavoring itself, it’s very fake-buttery and reminds me of the caramel-flavored syrups that I always hate. There’s something a bit coconutty as well in the aftertaste.

Nope, nope, nope!

(today’s advent teas: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI8bVHGAmpT/)

Well, after having to toss my advent tea into the Todd-box yesterday because I’m the only person on Steepster that doesn’t glow over banana teas, I can now indulge again (I just hope I don’t get any more nanner surprises this advent… I swear this happens to me no matter what advent I pick every year!)

The dry leaf smells like… creme cheese frosting to me?! Well, that is my favorite kind of frosting, so I’m okay with that. Though I am picking up a little of the “peppery” honeybush note in the aroma again… I wonder what honeybush they are using that I keep getting that?

My steeping cup smells a little more fruity… I still get sort of a frosting vibe in the aroma, but I’m also smelling… pineapples?! I like buttery shortbread, but if this tastes like pineapples in creme cheese frosting instead, I honestly won’t be disappointed…

Hmm. I honestly don’t know what I’m tasting. Not buttery shortbread… it is fruity, but tastes more berry-sweet on the sip. There is a vanilla/cream note I am picking up as well, so it’s really reading more as berries in cream to me? Which is pretty far off from buttery shortbread cookies… I mean, not an unpleasant flavor, just way off the mark. And ya, I’m definitely getting a peppery note in the honeybush again, and once again, it’s a bit off-putting with the other flavors… I don’t know where they are sourcing their honeybush, but this one just doesn’t seem to be meshing with me.

It’s a pleasant tasting cup, but nothing like what it says on the label, so ultimately a bit of a misleading blend. Or maybe I just got all the blackberry leaves in my portion, and it actually tastes like cookies for the rest of y’all. shrugs

Plum Deluxe Advent Calendar – Day 18

I smelled this and it smelled really familiar. I then tasted it and it tasted really familiar. Then I realized it was butter. This tea is liquid butter. Perhaps a buttery shortbread but buttery is the key word here. While accurately named, I just don’t think this is a flavor of beverage I am looking for.

Advent Day 18

This is strange. I get that it is trying to be buttery, but there is an intermittent distracting ashy taste. The sip is light and caramel like, but it goes flat at the back and has a dead cardboard finish. I have to really focus to taste chocolate and it’s just the high notes of chocolate without any depth or richness. Not my thing.