Strawberry Coconut Pu'erh

Pick me up! Perk me up! Wake me up! Shake me up! I need something to put some sparkle in my day! Something pink and glittery would be nice. I'm hoping this Strawberry Coconut Pu'erh will do the trick!

Strawberry Coconut Pu'erh

No glitter, but it does smell pink! Out of the jar, it smells like strawberry and chocolate...like Neopolitan Ice-cream. Like a milkshake in a tall soda-fountain glass. Like youth! I think I'll drink it in my Easter-chick mug for extra happiness.

Steeped, it's a deep caramel colour. The first sip is mild, and a little sweet. There isn't any obvious strawberry, or coconut flavour. It just tastes like a nice mellow, sweet tea.... (disappointed...no glitter!).

AAAHHHHHH...There it is!! It's in the aftertaste! OK... that's not a bad thing. It's unexpected, but unmistakable....strawberry. I can't find the coconut, but maybe that's working behind the scenes to temper the fruit and give it some smoothness. This isn't a powerful tea. It feels like a warm, fuzzy pink blanket. Or bunny slippers. Soft, and girly. "Strawberry Shortcake" rather than "Powerpuff Girls".

This tea came from Bulk Barn.

Green & Fruity

green & fruity by DAVIDs TEA

Green & Fruity....take me away!!!

In my mind, there is a picture of 'The Jungle'. Highly influenced by Saturday morning cartoons and Indiana Jones movies, this jungle features that humid air echo-y sound, green ferns and banana trees with water dripping off the leaves, the sounds of exotic birds ringing through the trees, and maybe a waterfall surrounded by brilliant red and orange flowers....you know the one.

This tea smells like that.

Out of the tin, this Rooibos from DAVIDs TEA smells like mouth-watering papaya, mango, peach and the colour lime green (do colours smell? Yes...this tea smells like lime green). Steeped, it's the colour of sunrise.

The first sip is a mild, mellow peachy taste, without the cloying acid of other fruit teas. It has a mellow undertone like....vanilla...cream...marshmallow... but clean. Refreshing, clean, and exotic.

On a lazy Sunday morning, staring out the window at the  flying snow, this tea is the perfect escape. It takes me away from all this winter grey, into that colour-drenched, hot, humid, luscious jungle in my mind. Gorgeous!

This tea is available from DAVIDs TEA, and is a part of  "the fair trade collection".

P.S. I've been to the jungle and it was nothing like this. The only thing I could smell was the mosquito repellent which I had to apply by the bucketful.....but let's not spoil the illusion.