Day 1 of the 2016 Advent Calendar, finally! I am a bit surprised to see this one so early compared to last year, but I don’t mind at all. I know that apparently people just aren’t a fan of this tea but I remember liking it, so we’ll see how this year’s batch holds up. In terms of smell, it’s basically just mint chocolate as I would hope. It’s very similar to the Hershey’s candy cane kisses in my opinion.
Steeped, the color turns into a greenish brown and it smells much stronger of mint. The taste is… a bit different than what I had hoped for. It’s very much mint chocolate, but the mint tastes almost a bit off to me. The sip at first is so good, it’s exactly what I want from a wintery chocolate-mint tea, but the taste very quickly becomes strange, almost metallic and leafy? The later sips seem to lose their charm as well it seems.
Overall, this tea is a bit polarizing to me. I love the first sips of it, but very quickly the weird aftertaste just takes over and ruins it for me. It’s hard to say if I really like this tea, but ultimately I think it’s one that I’ll bench in favor of better mint chocolate blends.
