Today’s Tea is Rose Petal Blend by Sothis for Adagio!

This one smells AAMAZINGGG when you open it! Like the best creamcicle you ever tasted. Or smelled. Funnily enough, not one person on the reviews I looked at mentioned that fact, but you smell the citrusy earl grey base and the vanilla / cream overtones at the same time, so it’s just straight creamcicle to me. I didn’t smell the rose at all, tbh, but it comes out nicely in the cup.

It’s a strong tea for sure, would more than hold up to cream and sugar. It’s very earl grey at the front of a sip and then floral and rosy at the end, without being perfumey; apparently some people don’t like rose as a flavor, but I, who drinks straight rose tea, think they’re insane, and also that this wouldn’t be too much even then.

Cutting the ear grey with ceylon, I think, was smart. It lightens the actual tea part of the blend so it’s no too heavy or bitter: the tea still comes through, but the flavors balance nicely.

I’m not sure what fandom this is for, since I’m not much into video games (what with my terrible hand eye coordination), but it’s a really good tea. One of the tops from this box!

It’s not letting me pick up a link for whatever reason, but it looks like this! Just search Rose Petal Blend on adagio.com!

Ps: I might drop a group review post this week; I’ve been taking pictures as I drink through the teas, but I’ve been too busy to post!

Adagio CommuniTEA for April 5 2021: Ginger Peach

Today’s tea is Ginger Peach! I never got this one for myself bc I used to work at a place that sold Republic of Tea ginger peach and I didn’t like it, so I assumed this would be the same. It’s not!

The first whiff coming out of the bag smells like otter pops–like, specifically an artificial fruitiness. After that it smells like ginger ale like most gingery teas do. And then it mellows into a nice vaguely fruity, vaguely gingery melange.

At the three-minutes-for-black tea mark it smells nice. Sort of peachy, sort of apricoty, not much ginger. And the taste is not too gingery either, but mild and fruity, and mostly like tea. Probably sugar would bring the peach out (but I have a cavity so not today).

It tastes mostly like tea, with that floral peachiness up front and the kinda-gingeriness in the back after you swallow. But you can sort of feel the ginger in your belly? This would probably be a good tea for after dinner, or if you’re feeling icky in your stomach, without it being as overwhelmingly gingery as teas meant for that sort of situation. It doesn’t taste medicinal at all.

Here’s what the bag for today looks like:

Letting it sit makes the tea stronger. Like most black teas, it takes on sort of a bitter edge pretty quickly, but also the ginger gets stronger and that actually seems to balance the bitterness. When it’s real strong, I bet it could stand up to milk really well.

Overall, a pretty pleasant tea, considering I didn’t think I’d even like it at all!

Adagio Irish Stout

I love me some adagio. They’ve been one of my favorite tea companies for, what, like close to a decade now??*

Right now they’re doing A Thing where if you spend over $45, they include a bag of their seasonal Irish Stout tea! I used a gift certificate and apparently that counts as spending, so I got a bag!

When you open the bag it smells like Baileys. Like straight irish creme. Not stout at all–no hippiness, no bitterness, no malted hints, nothing that would make it smell like a beer, so it makes the name weird. BUT it’s a delicious smell. Super yummy.

There’s cocoa nibs and little shamrock sprinkles in it, and it brews up a nice medium-dark brown. Smells more like chocolate as it brews, less like irish creme, but still smells yummy.

The taste is mostly tea, but a little sort of tootsie-roll chocolatey, and a vague hint of smooth creaminess. Still nothing to justify the name, even after I forgot to remove the teabag and it got over-brewed. And it was still very drinkable even that dark!

This would go excellent with sugar and cream, british style, and if you brew it real strong, would probably make an excellent japanese-style milk tea!

*how is everything ten years ago now??