This week's tea review is a tea that I've been enjoying for a couple months now. It's the Tardis Blend by Cara McGee on Adagio Teas. I felt it appropriate to review this tea this week since the premier of Dr. Who occurred this past weekend, and this has easily been one of my top teas since I first tried it.
Note that the tea did not come in the tin above. I had an extra David's tin around and decided this tea was so special that it needed to be transferred from the zip bag into a tin.
This tea is a blend of three of Adagio's loose leaf teas: Earl Grey Bravo, Blackberry, and Vanilla. All three of these teas are black teas on their own. I'm not sure of the specific ratio of the blend but on cold sniff I do detect the Earl Grey being the strongest.
I brew this tea using the boil setting on my Cuisinart Variable Temperature kettle and take around one scoop of tea using my David's Tea perfect measuring spoon (sometime a little bit more depending on how big my mug is).
It's not the most interesting tea during brew, but wanted to snap a shot if you are interested in viewing the process.
This tea brews up pretty quick. I generally only need to let it steep for 1 or 2 minutes and it's nice and flavorful. In my experience, if you let it brew a little longer you will get a little more of the blackberry and vanilla flavors coming through. The below is with about a 1-2 minute brew time.
And as a general rule for me, with all my black blends, I add milk. It's just how I roll. I think the milk definitely helps to temper down any potential bitterness and helps to bring the vanilla or creamier aspects of the tea forward.
So, how does this tea fare? Well, I've worked my way through about 1.5 bags of this tea and have loved it each time I've had it. When you drink it, you can definitely taste the combination of all three of the tea ingredients. First you get the Earl Grey Bravo, but then as you drink it, the blackberry and vanilla flavors become more pronounced. The flavors combine wonderfully. This isn't a dessert tea per se, but it definitely fills that niche for me when I want something yummy.
If you are interested in purchasing this tea, you can do so by clicking on the following link:
This link will take you to the page for this blend on Adagio's site (www.adagio.com). There are quite a few Tardis type blends on Adagio's site so if you use the link above you will be sure to access the exact one that I reviewed in this post. The blend can also be found under Most Popular menu link under the Blends category on the Adagio Teas site. Currently a 4 oz. pouch sells for $9 on the site.
Have you tried any of the blended teas from Adagio before? If so, let me know down in the comments what your favorites are. There are so many there, I could spend hours just reading through them.
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