Cococaramel Sea Salt Herbal Tea

The scent of the dry mix is as advertised; cocoa, caramel, salt. After a long steep (6 min), there’s a lot less caramel and a lot more licorice…and low sodium.

Drinking this first non-stellar cup minus any additives to get an accurate baseline, but I think this will need some sugar and/or some dairy to accentuate any creamy caramel personality this may have.

I wanted to try this for uh, tasting reasons. It smells like toffee and licorice. And I’m sure why paprika goes in a tisane, but that is a scent I get too. There is some chocolate in the flavour, but I mostly get salt, spice, and licorice root.

This is certainly an interesting assortment of flavours.

This is one of those dessert teas I buy over and over again to make into lattes to satisfy cravings. Seriously, this tea is delicious

A lovely dessert tea. Slightly more chocolate than I anticipated given the name implies caramel, but I liked it. I found it naturally sweet and didn’t need to add anything. This is the kind of blend I would enjoy sharing with a girlfriend or two while we catch up and chat about life.

Teavana stopped carrying this tea so my sister got to bring home a $250 bag of it. I kid you not, this bag weighs a ton. Good thing it is delicious! The aroma is unreal, seriously good.

This was my first Teavana experience, while I was at the West Edmonton mall for a girls trip! I mixed this with a little bit of white pearls because I still wanted just a tad bit of caffeine but not too much, so I guess this isn’t a very accurate note on this tea.
I thought this herbal was ok, a nice blend of spices, but still a little bit chocolate too for sweetness. I don’t think I would purchase it though.

This was a great cuppa to go on my shopping adventures!

I tried several sips of the tea before I added the German rock sugar, but it needed a little something. I added some of the rock sugar and it had a nice caramel flavor that the rock sugar definitely enhanced. I did end up liking it and that’s a good thing, since I bought a bunch when it was on sale.

CocoCaramel SeaSalt

8/10

This stuff is pretty good. The dry loose tea smells moderately like a melted snickers bar, but thankfully does not look like it. Visually, it looks exactly like potpurri peppered with little bits of chocolate.

Once brewed, the liquid is a very light brown with a bit of an oily sheen to it. It retains the melted snicker bar smell but the taste is surprisingly more nutty/baker’s chocolatey than the caramel/milk chocolate taste that I expected. Luckily, I prefer the former anyway :-) (FYI I didn’t add any sweetener or cream, but I’m sure if you did you could easily create something really decadent).

The only factor that caused me to give this tea a less than perfect score is that the tea is rather weak. To get the tea to the desired strength, I pretty much have to triple the recommended amount of the loose leaf and let it brew for a ridiculously long time. Since this stuff wasn’t terribly cheap, I’m disappointed at the amount of product I have to use to get a satisfactory cup of tea :-/

Very tasty. The flavours are nice and strong, but it is definitely a sweet drink. Unfortunately I won’t be returning to Teavana so won’t get any more of this tasty treat. The tea I got to-go was awful (Chocolate Chai Latte, half sweet, may as well have been just cinnamon in a cup with some milk) and the sales person was beyond pushy, insisting that we needed to buy more that 50g since it was an herbal and therefore required 3 spoonfuls per cup and didn’t we want far more than just a measly 50g since it is on sale??? That kind of approach to sales turns me right off. I will take DavidsTea any day, where I am never overserved and always treated with respect.

Why. Why did I buy 4 ounces of this? I mean, yeah, I paid 1$ per ounce, but christ! This is single handedly the worst thing I have ever let touch my mouth brewed like tea. It tastes heavily of artificial flavoring, and it has a gross greasy texture. I made a mug of it, and I had to choke it down. It’s one of those things I can’t believe people like, not because I’m being snobby, but because it tastes so bad.