Tag: riffs on earl grey

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!

Today’s tea: Dollar Tea Club’s Green Meadows!

A new thing to try! If I was a millionaire, I’d be trying every tea club in the world because my biggest problem with tea is figuring out which one to drink. Tea clubs narrow that way the heck down and make the morning much easier!

This one sounds like a merge of irish cream and earl grey, which I couldn’t really picture (or whatever the taste version of picturing is) when I read it, but it smells like some sort of fancy lemony cupcake when you open it!

(my editing app is deciding to not work today so here’s the messy background I usually crop out!)

It’s a pretty nice looking tea, green and curly and decent sized leaves. There’s actually little shamrock sprinkles in there so I’m guessing this is a St Pat’s blend.

In the cup, it keeps that dessert sort of a smell really well. I’m not getting coffee at all, and chocolate mostly in the smell rather than the taste and only barely, but the creaminess really comes through and blends really well with the lemmony-bergamoty scent. The first whiff maybe smells a little like a fancy shampoo, but thankfully it doesn’t taste like that at all!

Being a green tea, it’s a light brew but it does darken a little as it sits. It tastes really nice, that base of green tea with a decent citrus, but not bitter or sour at all. It doesn’t taste sweet, since there’s nothing to really sweeten it but a very few sprinkles, but it’s still got that sweet cupcake smell and half of tasting is smelling, so it sort of tricks your tongue?

I would buy a candle that smells like this in a second.

It makes for a really interesting, complex, engaging drink that you want to keep sipping and paying attention to! Yay!

It doesn’t look like you can order their teas separate from the club, but you can sign up for the club here!