Hello friends! Welcome to the first day of 24 Days of Tea Tasting.
Throughout the course of this month, I will be sharing my tasting notes with you for each of the teas in DAVIDsTEA’s 24 Days of Tea advent calendar. Today’s tea is called Let it Snow. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not claim to have any real expertise when it comes to tea. This is just for fun.
Tea Information
Green Tea
Low Caffiene
Ingredients: Candied pineapple (pineapple, cane sugar, citric acid), Green tea, Black currants, Apple, Cinnamon, White chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, skim milk powder, whey powder, lactose, soy lecithin, natural vanilla), Cloves, Stevia extract, Natural flavouring. Contains milk and soy.
Brewing Instructions:
Heat water to 85℃/185℉
Steep for 3-4 minutes
Tasting Notes
Sight: The ingredients of this tea all come together to create a loose leaf blend of a variety of different shapes, sizes, and colours; which find unity in the perfect balance of cool and warm undertones It steeps a light green tea colour.
Smell: The loose leaf smells amazing. It’s spicy and decadent, and almost reminds me of bubblegum. Spicy bubblegum. Steeping this tea brings out the smell of the cinnamon and other chai-like ingredients, so it smells like a sweet and decadent chai latte.
Taste: This tea is very sweet and has a mild chai flavour. The sweetness is very dominant over the other flavours of this tea, and I can definitely taste the stevia because it has such a unique aftertaste.
Rating:
⭐ ⭐
I’m going to be a little picky with my ratings, so I hope you don’t get the wrong idea from me giving it two stars. I would love this tea if it weren’t for the stevia because it just has this lingering aftertaste that I’m not a huge fan of. If you like stevia though, this won’t be a problem for you at all. The tea is also a little too sweet for my taste, but aside from that, I could absolutely see this being someone’s favourite holiday drink.
Other Notes:
Since this is a rather sweet tea, I wonder if it could be used to do some Christmas-y baking! Please do let me know if you have some recipes for such.
