Maharaja Chai/Samurai Chai Tea Blend

Name: Maharaja Chai/Samurai Chai Tea Blend


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Maté and Oolong


Dry Scent: There is definitely a "chai" sort of scent to this, and something a little almost minty. There is also, of course, a scent of maté and the greenish, fresh scent of oolong, but one thing I definitely notice is that this smells a bit sweet. I can actually smell the sugar crystals that are added to the blend


Steeping Time: 4-5 min


Steeped Flavour: This definitely has nice, spicy and warming chai flavours to it, mostly cinnamon and cardamom, but the thing that most stands out in the flavour of this blend is, unfortunately, the amount of sugar that was added to it. This is one of the things I dislike about Teavana's pre-blended teas - they sweeten them. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to sweeten tea now and then, especially if you're cold and are trying to warm up, but I'd rather be in charge of the amount of sweetener added to my tea, rather than having the amount dictated for me.


Food/Drink Pairings: This would be nice with a slice of spice cake or maybe with a splash of rum in it, like a hot toddy.


Rating out of Six Tails:
3/6


Buy/Don't Buy

I'm very much on the fence on whether to recommend a buy on this one or not.  On the one hand, it is a nice chai, but on the other hand....too much pre-added sugar!  Seriously!

Winter Berry Spice

Name: Winter Berry Spice


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Herbal


Dry Scent: Sweet, with hints of orange and cloves, and also fruity pineapple and sharp cranberry. Very holiday-ish.  It brings to mind mulling spices and candied peel, and baking Christmas cakes.


Steeping Time: 7-8 min


Steeped Flavour: Juicy, like sweet mandarin oranges with hints of cranberry's sharpness and mellow, well-blended cloves and cinnamon round out the flavour, although they are definitely not the major players here.


Food/Drink Pairings: Rum. This definitely deserves a splash of spiced rum in it, or maybe just a little Cointreau or some other orange liqueur. Surprisingly for a winter tea, I have a great urge to try this iced. I think it could actually be quite good that way as well, and would go well with a picnic lunch.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6


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My Morning Maté

Name: My Morning Maté


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Maté


Dry Scent: This is a complex scent, including earthy coffee scents, sharp orange peel and musty green maté. There is definitely a "breakfast" sort of smell to it.


Steeping Time: 5-6 min


Steeped Flavour: The most predominent flavour here is a coffee-like smooth bitterness, which is mellowed by the sharpness of the orange peel and the deep flavours of the maté. Not bad, as "coffee replacements" go, overall.


Food/Drink Pairings: Breakfast! This is most definitely a first thing in the morning tea, and would cut nicely through toast and peanut butter, or accompany a bowl of cereal very well. It could even go nicely with pancakes!


Rating out of Six Tails:
4.5/6


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Swiss White Truffle

Name: Swiss White Truffle


Brand: Naturally for You


Primary Type: Rooibos


Dry Scent: Slightly sweet and very creamy, with the warm, sunny scent of rooibos and a subtle nuttiness.


Steeping Time: 8-9 min


Steeped Flavour: Sweet, rich and nutty, with a slight creaminess and of course the warmth of the rooibos. This is a wonderful tea for a cold night.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is good with dessert, or lunch, and also a good way to warm up after a cold time out in the winter weather. It's also a good "teatime" tea and excellent for dunking cookies into.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Peach Tranquility

Name: Peach Tranquility


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Herbal


Dry Scent: Sweet and peachy, with a sharp bite of rosehips and a slight tang of spice, cinnamon perhaps? Or allspice. Something warming and subtle


Steeping Time: 7-8 min


Steeped Flavour: Very, very sweet and fruity, with a very "true" peach flavour, along with floral, grassy hints from the chamomile and just a little subtle bite of rosehip. This has a "thick" mouthfeel, almost as if it actually contains peach juice. The consistency is very similar. This almost reminds me of peach cobbler or warm peach pie.


Food/Drink Pairings: Excellent as an iced tea, with a picnic, or with breakfast (if you don't need a punch of caffeine in the morning). It would also be very tasty with a fruity dessert (especially one containing peaches)


Rating out of Six Tails:
6/6

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Sugar Maple

Name:  Sugar Maple


Brand:  Murchies


Primary Type:  Black


Dry Scent:  Sweet and rich like maple syrup or maple candies...or maybe those maple cream cookies....yumm.....


Steeping Time: 4-5 min


Steeped Flavour:  Sweet from the maple for sure, but not overwhelmingly so.  There is a dark, full-bodied richness from the black tea, almost a little musty and earthy, and there is also a slight fruity hint from the bits of apple in this.  Overall very well blended.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This is definitely something that pairs with dessert, and sweet desserts at that.  This would be great with chocolate cake or sticky toffee pudding...especially the second.  Dang now I'm craving sticky toffee pudding LOL!


Rating out of Six Tails:

5.5/6


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Strawberry Paraiso

Name:  Strawberry Paraiso


Brand:  Teavana


Primary Type:  White


Dry Scent:  Sweet with the scents of sun-warmed strawberries and juicy pineapple, but with a hint of grassy white tea and notes of buttered popcorn adding richness.


Steeping Time: 2-3 min


Steeped Flavour:  Again, sweet, but with just enough hibiscus tartness to keep from being sickly-sweet.  The strawberry is very much evident, but the scent of the brewed tea carries much more of the popcorn flavour, and the tea does as well, flowing over the tongue with a buttery sort of sweetness.  There is a rich mouthfeel to this tea, and the flavours all play very nicely together.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This could be iced as a picnic tea, but I like it as an after-dinner treat with something light and sweet, like mirangues.   <3


Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6


Buy/Don't Buy

Like most white teas, especially from Teavana, this isn't particularly cheap, but it's definitely worth the buy in this case.  Yum.

Matévana

Name:  Matévana


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type:  Maté


Dry Scent:  Dark and chocolatey, with musty hints from the maté and rich, almondy notes as well.  Very appetizing and makes me think of high-quality chocolates or a chocolate shop.


Steeping Time: 5-6 min


Steeped Flavour:  Very tasty and chocolatey although a little rough on the tongue as far as mouthfeel goes...better with a little bailey's or Godiva added in.  The maté provides a dark base note and the almonds add some richness as well.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This is good with cookies and also with biscotti - anything that would go well with coffee.  It's wonderful at breakfast time and also a very tasty way to keep yourself going if you have to stay up to work on something.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Cinnamon

Name: Cinnamon


Brand: Naturally for You


Primary Type: Rooibos


Dry Scent:  Sunny, warm rooibos blends perfectly with the even warmer, spicy scent of cinnamon.  This is almost what I imagine a phoenix nest might smell like, subtle but amazing.


Steeping Time: 8-10


Steeped Flavour:  Marvelously warming, cinnamon but full-bodied and warm, not sharp or biting as you might find with cinnamon candies.  More like cinnamon buns or cinnamon cookies.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This is a very good teatime tea, and also wonderful for dunking cookies into.  It's a good warming drink for just before bed, because there isn't any caffeine in it, and it goes well with a splash of whiskey - it doesn't even have to be cinnamon whiskey.


Rating out of Six Tails:

5.5/6


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Peach Bellini Blush

Name: Peach Bellini Blush


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Herbal


Dry Scent: Sweet and peachy with a bit of a bite to it from citrus and a warm richness from vanilla.


Steeping Time: 6-7 min


Steeped Flavour: Sweet, fruity and rich, with just a little bit of citrus acidity, slight tannic notes from the grapes and a bit of peppery warmth, which is unexpected but not, overall, bad. A tasty, sweet tea, and better as it cools.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is certainly a picnic tea, iced or hot. Very much summery, and blends extremely well with a little nip of peach schnapps. Mmm!


Rating out of Six Tails:
4.5/6


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Ener-G Tea

Name: Ener-G Tea


Brand: Naturally for You


Primary Type: Black


Dry Scent: Musty dark almost oaky scents from the black tea, along with bright green notes and warm, sweet yet tart scents of cranberry and apple.


Steeping Time: 4-5 min


Steeped Flavour: Rich and sweet, faintly fruity, with herbal overtones, musty mints and ginseng notes as well. Full-bodied and energizing.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is good first thing in the morning with breakfast, but not a dinnertime tea, unless you're planning to be up all night writing or sewing or partaking in some other, similar pursuit.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Weight to Go

Name: Weight to Go


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Pu'erh


Dry Scent:  This has a rich smell from the pu'erh tea, which supports bright notes of citrus and orangepeel, sweetness from the strawberry bits, and some more musty herbal scents from the mints as well.  A complex scent, which you can't take in all on one sniff.


Steeping Time:  4-5 min


Steeped Flavour:  The mints in this add a strange, mustiness to the otherwise sweet and fruity tea, I think they're enhancing the flavours of the beetroot in this.  The pu'erh's earthiness does a good job at rounding things out, however, and keeping all the other flavours mostly in line.  Overall not bad although not my favourite of the "slimming" teas.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This is definitely a good breakfast tea.  It's got enough caffeine kick to get you going, and won't overpower a simple meal.


Rating out of Six Tails:

4.5/6


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Toasted Nut Brûleé

Name: Toasted Nut Brûleé


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Oolong


Dry Scent: Warm sunny and very sweet and nutty. This smells something like walking into a candy store when they have been making nut brittle. Very, very yum!


Steeping Time: 3.5-4 min


Steeped Flavour: Mmmm...bliss! Nutty, rich and sweet, with an underlying warmth from the rooibos in this, and slightly green, grassy and musky oolong notes as well.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is a dessert tea, for sure, or a tea that would be beautiful with high tea, especially scones, strawberries and clotted cream. It would also be very tasty with some frangelico or other nut-based liqueur. Possibly even would go well with sambuca.


Rating out of Six Tails:
6/6


Buy/Don't Buy

This one's on my list of must-have teas for sure!

Honey Lemon Ginseng

Name: Honey Lemon Ginseng


Brand: Naturally for You


Primary Type: Green


Dry Scent: Strong, grassy green tea scent brightened by hints of dried apricot and other fruity scents and grounded by musty ginseng.


Steeping Time: 3-4 min


Steeped Flavour: There is a lovely, grassy green tea flavour in this, without saltiness or fishiness, and it has hints of honey sweetness and the musty gingery flavours of the ginseng help ground the flavour and blend everything together.


Food/Drink Pairings: This could probably best be described as a lunchtime tea, or something to keep you going on long nights of writing or knitting or whatever else crafty needs to be done. Also nice with japanese food or other subtle flavours.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Guava Papaya Passion

Name: Guava Papaya Passion


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: White


Dry Scent: There is a lot of fruit flavour in this, and also something floral, but not rose or jasmine, more like passionflower, perhaps from the passionfruit?


Steeping Time: 2 min


Steeped Flavour: This is fruity but also unfortunately soemwhat perfumey from the passionflower floral notes, with grassy white tea undertones supporting the blend.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is probably best at breakfast or dessert. It would also be really nice iced, especially blended with a little fruit juice or fruit flavoured vodka.


Rating out of Six Tails:
3.5/6


Buy/Don't Buy

I'm going to put this as a "buy if you try it first and like it", it might be a bit of an acquired taste.

Jumpy Monkey

Name: Jumpy Monkey


Brand: David's Tea


Primary Type: Maté


Dry Scent: Coffee definitely, but there is also a strong dry grassy scent here, and it's underlaid by the more musty green scent of the maté itself, and lightened and lifted by the almost floral notes from the almonds. There is also a deep richness in the scent from the carob, cocoa nibs and white chocolate.


Steeping Time: 5-6 min


Steeped Flavour: There is definitely the flavour of coffee in this, but no bitterness, and the richness of the coffee is balanced and enhanced by the musky deep green-ness of the maté and the straw-like flavours of some other other herbal ingredients. There is also the faint sweetness of chocolate to keep this from being too bitter overall.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is good for breakfast or any time you might normally drink coffee, and is also very good with a little splash of cream (Irish or otherwise).


Rating out of Six Tails:
4.5/6


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Belgian Chocolate

Name: Belgian Chocolate


Brand: Naturally for You


Primary Type: Rooibos


Dry Scent: The strongest scent in this is rooibos with its warm, red, desert wind sort of scent, but it is deepened and rounded nicely by the chocolate bits, and the result is mouth-watering, for sure.


Steeping Time: 8-10 min


Steeped Flavour: Smooth and chocolatey. There is a faint mintiness from the rooibos, and the tea is warm and comforting. Heck, anything with chocolate, right?


Food/Drink Pairings: This is perfect for dipping cookies into, or to accompany any rich dessert, such as chocolate mousse or chocolate cake. Anything rich and chocolatey. It is also very good with a little chocolate liqueur added.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Fig Rose

Name:  Fig Rose


Brand:  Teavana


Primary Type:  Herbal


Dry Scent:  Very figgy, with a little tropical sweetness from the pineapple, a little nutty scent of almonds and a very light floral from the rose petals. It's a lovely scent though, and almost Christmassy, although probably that's because of the dried figs, which always make me think of the holidays.


Steeping Time:  6-7 min


Steeped Flavour:  This is sweet, although not so much that it tastes like fruit juice.  There is a deep, ruby red colour which tells the tale of hibiscus, but there's little enough that the flavour blends nicely in with the rest of the fruits in this infusion.  The tea itself is very smooth on the tongue, almost silky and a little thick.  Very nice.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This would go nicely with breakfast, but it's also really nice after dinner as a replacement for dessert.  It could possibly pair with something like a fruit cobbler or pie, but nothing too sweet.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6

Buy/Don't Buy

Chocolate Chili Chai

Name: Chocolate Chili Chai

Brand: David's Tea


Primary Type: Black


Dry Scent: This smells rich, chocolatey and has has a peppery, chili bite overtop and the dark, earthy and slightly musty scent of black tea and the chilies. There is a sense of depth and richness in the nose, and they did a really good job of stabilizing the blend of scents.


Steeping Time:4-5 min


Steeped Flavour: Yummy, spicy and rich, with a dark earthiness, almost musty, a little like the smell of sundried chilies, but not in an objectionable way. This has a rich, thick mouthfeel, and it's warm on the tongue from the spice but not to the point of being "too hot to handle". The sweetness of the chocolate is here, but it reminds me more of a "Mexican hot chocolate" kind of thing, or perhaps molé. Perfect for a cold winter evening.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is good with desserts, especially anything with chocolate where you can double down. It's also amazing with Bailey's, or Godiva...any chocolate, creamy liqueur!


Rating out of Six Tails:
6/6


Buy/Don't Buy


So, so, SO happy this one is back! I missed it when it went away after last winter, but now it's back for good. Yay!

Strawberry Slender

Name: Strawberry Slender


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Pu'erh


Dry Scent: Rich, sweet berry scent, with the earthy pu'erh supporting the juicy strawberry scent, making it robust and more like the actual berries, almost like the scent of strawberries in the garden warmed by the summer sun.


Steeping Time: 4-5 min


Steeped Flavour: This tastes like good-quality stawberry jam, with the basis of thick, earthy pu'erh tea. Even more than the strawberry flavour, there is a strong, sweet strawberry scent that rises off the tea as you drink it. Yum. This is definitely a weight-loss tea I can see drinking lots of.


Food/Drink Pairings: This goes really nicely with breakfast, perhaps toast and a little strawberry jam!


Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6


Buy/Don't Buy

Tea and Chocolates!

So today, lucky lucky me, I happened to find out that our local downtown David's Tea shop was going to be having a Tea and Chocolate Pairings tasting event with Purdy's Chocolates.

Even luckier, I happened to be off work tonight so I could actually go!

There were three pairings of tea and chocolates:  Blueberry Jam paired with White Silk chocolates,  Assam Banaspaty with Petit Chocolat, and Quangzhou Milk Oolong with Caramel Carnival or Maple Walnut Cream.

In order:

Blueberry Jam and White Silk:  Delicious!  A perfect pairing.  A nibble of the white chocolate followed by a sip of the hot tea lends juicy berry flavours over the creamy sweetness of the chocolate, and keeps the white chocolate itself from being cloying or coating the mouth.  Delicious, and it also manages to clear the palate after it's done.

Assam Banaspaty and Petit Chocolat:  Also a very good pairing.  The dark bitterness of the dark chocolate and the creaminess of the ganache lend depth to the strong, malty assam black tea.  A very clean, smooth feeling in the mouth and a lingering soft sweetness.

Quangzhou Milk Oolong with Caramel Carnival:  This oolong is a delicate, faintly floral one, and it is lent an incredible sweetness by the liquid caramel inside this chocolate.  The sweet caramel somehow enhances the floral notes, and it makes this combination surprisingly fragrant and almost perfumed.

Quangzhou Milk Oolong with Maple Walnut Cream:  In this combination, the deep, earthy flavours from the walnuts bring out different notes from the oolong, sweetness and slightly musty green flavours burst into smoothness in the mouth.


Overall, very grateful to the David's Tea folks for putting this on, and the Purdy's people as well.  This was an amazing evening, and a great deal of fun!

Slimful Chocolate Decadence

Name: Slimful Chocolate Decadence


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Oolong


Dry Scent: Chocolatey scent, with hints of nuts and the slightly greenish scent of the oolong tea, however, all of this is overlaid with an unfortunately almost turpentine smell, perhaps from the licorice root.


Steeping Time: 3 min


Steeped Flavour: This is nice, chocolate and carob are the strongest flavours in this, and the coconut adds richness to the body and mouthfeel of the tea. There is an overlaying taste of greenish earthy oolong and almost the perfume of rose as an aftertaste.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is good on its own, or with cookies to dip in it.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Gyokuro Yamashiro

Name: Gyokuro Yamashiro 


Brand: David's Tea


Primary Type: Green


Dry Scent: Very grassy and green, almost oily-green in scent. This is altogether the most green thing I've smelled in quite some time.


Steeping Time: 1.5 min


Steeped Flavour: This is lovely. Not bitter (of course, only due to careful steeping) and also not in any way fishy or "oceanic" the way that green teas can be. I've heard this described as tasting like buttered asparagus, and I can see where that idea comes from. There is certainly a butteriness overlying the green in this, but it reminds me a bit more of kale or fiddleheads. Definitely fiddleheads. I would buy more of this if it wasn't so very, very expensive.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is marvelous with cheese and crackers, or shrimp...any high-end, delicate appetizer really.


Rating out of Six Tails:
6/6


Buy/Don't Buy




Again this was a sample I ended up with and I've been putting off trying it because of the price. I put a buy on this but for goodness' sakes try this before you buy it, and only buy it if you have some experience with the care needed for brewing green teas. This is very good but very, very pricey.

Berry Basil Blast

Name: Berry Basil Blast


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: White


Dry Scent: There is the sweetness of berries, apples and pineapple front and center in this, but it is quickly followed by the dry, slightly dusty herbal scent of basil and hints of the citrus tang of hibiscus. An unusual combination, although they do seem to play reasonably harmoniously together along with the grassy, fresh scent of the white tea leaves.


Steeping Time: 2-2.5 min


Steeped Flavour: The first and strongest flavour in this is the basil, unfortunately. It is followed by the lovely fruity flavours, and the citrus bite of the hibiscus, but the basil just seems a little odd. Not bad, overall, but odd.


Food/Drink Pairings: This probably would work best with a main course meal, especially pasta, since then the basil flavour might be overwhelmed and allow the fruity flavours to come out more strongly.


Rating out of Six Tails:
3.5/6


Buy/Don't Buy

I'm putting a "maybe buy" on this.  It's not bad, per se, but it's definitely different, and probably not to everyone's taste.

Cherry Delight

Name: Cherry Delight


Brand: Naturally for You


Primary Type: Maté


Dry Scent: Very much kirche, with the green musty maté providing a base to keep the sharpness of the alcoholic cherry scent from being overpowering. This is almost almondy in scent, and not too sweet, especially given that its primary scent is cherry.


Steeping Time: 5 min


Steeped Flavour: Lightly kirche cherry flavour overlays the musky deep flavours of the maté, with a slightly bitter-cherry aftertaste.


Food/Drink Pairings: This would go nicely with mild meats, chicken or fish. Surprisingly enough for a "cherry-flavoured" tea, it really isn't sweet. It's definitely more of a main course tea than a dessert tea.


Rating out of Six Tails:
4/6


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Azteca Fire

Name: Azteca Fire


Brand: Teavana


Primary Type: Herbal


Dry Scent: There is milky chocolateyness in this, hints of fruit, and definitely the bite of chilies. It smells like good mexican hot chocolate, very warming, even just from the scent.


Steeping Time: 5-6 min


Steeped Flavour: This tea sits there looking all innocent and sweet in your cup, but don't believe it. This tea has definite bite. It is sweet, certainly, especially as it cools down a little bit from the heat of steeping, but there is a light skim of chili oil floating on the top of the cup of tea that will bite you in the back of the throat after the flavours of chocolate and strawberries have flowed over your tongue. A couple of important things to keep in mind with this tea, though, to keep it at its best. After steeping, even if you don't add anything to it, you should stir this, as the chocolate tends to settle out a bit. Also, you might want to add a little more tea than you normally would, since it can seem a bit "thin" otherwise.


Food/Drink Pairings: This is excellent with a bit of Bailey's or other cream liqueur. It is definitely a dessert tea, and is also very good for dunking cookies into, or biscotti. Whatever you do or don't add to the tea though, if you need to get warm on a cold winter's evening, this is a good, safe bet.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5/6


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Birthday Cake

Name: Birthday Cake


Brand: David's Tea


Primary Type: Rooibos


Dry Scent: Yummy! Vanilla cream icing is what this smells most like, with hints of white cake underneath, and warm sweetness from the rooibos itself only adds to the mouthwatering scent.


Steeping Time: 6-8 min


Steeped Flavour: This definitely tastes like cake. In particular, white cake with buttercream icing. A little more of the icing and less of the cake, but then, this is tea, after all, and it's hard to get some of the subtleties of the actual flavour of cake. Besides, the icing is the more important part of any good birthday cake anyway LOL!


Food/Drink Pairings: This is dessert. No ifs, ands or buts, dessert. Being a rooibos you can drink it any time of day but my favourite thing to do is to add some UV birthday cake vodka to this, doubling down on the birthday-cake-ness only makes it better.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6


Buy/Don't Buy

And yes, in case you wondered, it was my birthday a couple of days ago.  Thus my having this tea on my backlist of reviews to post LOL!

Sorcerer's Tea

Name: Sorcerer's Tea


Brand: unknown


Primary Type: Black


Dry Scent: Warm and fruity, with hints of mango, tangerine and peach. Definitely reminds one of ambrosia salad, but with the heady, slightly earthy undertones of good-quality black tea.


Steeping Time: 4-5 min


Steeped Flavour: Delicious. This definitely is a fine black tea base, which supports the fruity flavours well. It makes me think of spring and early summer, and eating fresh orchard fruits from a roadside stand.


Food/Drink Pairings: This would do well iced with a picnic, or as a breakfast tea. It's fairly caffeinated, so probably not great as an after-dinner tea, but it would do well for a lunchtime tea too.


Rating out of Six Tails:
5.5/6


Buy/Don't Buy


This was given to me by a friend, who didn't remember where she got it, but the packaging is all in french. The actual listed name is "Thè des Magiciens" and if anyone knows where I can get more I will be eternally grateful, because it is absolutely divine!  Buy it if you can find it, and if you do find it LINK ME!

White Chocolate Frost

Name:  White Chocolate Frost


Brand:  David's Tea


Primary Type:  Herbal


Dry Scent:  Smells like creamy peppermint.  A little like after eights or peppermint patties, there's definitely a slightly chocolatey edge to this.


Steeping Time:  3 min


Steeped Flavour:  Well, you all know I'm not big on mint teas, so keep that in mind.  All in all this one isn't bad on the mint, it's nicely balanced by the white chocolate to keep it sweet and creamy.  There is something a little unusual with this tea, though.  There is a slight skim of oil on top of the tea, likely from the white chocolate, and it's...almost salty.  Sweet, but there was definitely a pang of salt in this, and I just can't figure out where it comes from.


Food/Drink Pairings:  This tea is probably best as a dessert tea, as it is actually fairly sweet.  The peppermint is of course good for the digestion (for most people, just not me) and it does do a really good job at palate cleansing.


Rating out of Six Tails:
3/6


Buy/Don't Buy

I put a buy on this for folks who like peppermint teas, and because the salty taste did actually help enhance the flavour, but I also do recommend trying before you buy if possible, to be sure, since I can't exactly trust my own evaluations of mint teas for the tastes of others.