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Dessert by Deb’s Frosted Winter Apple

Frosted Winter Apple by Dessert by Deb
Green Tea / Flavoured
$16.00 for 75g

Frosted Winter Apple is an exclusive blend for Dessert by Deb subscription subscribers and is available for purchase by subscribers only at this time.

First Impressions

Frosted Winter Apple was a subscriber exclusive from the 2020 January/February Dessert by Deb subscriber box. This tea came in a foil pouch with a colourful label on the front. The tea has a lovely aroma – it smells like coconut and apples. It does have a nice sweetness to it, which is inviting and reminds me that all of the teas from Dessert by Deb are really sweets/dessert focused.

This blended green tea consists of: green tea, coconut, apple, elderberries, rosehips, and palm sugar. It’s a gorgeous tea, I love the look of it with the green tea blended with the coconut, and it smells lovely. I don’t smell the green tea, elderberries, or rosehips. It looks lovely.

Preparation

Dessert by Deb recommends steeping Frosted Winter Apple in 200°F (93°C) water for 4 to 6 minutes. I opted to do an initial steep for 5 minutes.

First Taste

Frosted Winter Apple steeps to a pale peachy orange. There’s a bit of an oil slick across the top that I attribute to the oils from the coconut. There’s a sweet, slightly fruity aroma to it. On first taste, I really notice the coconut. There’s some fruity notes that I believe are from the apple – which make it quite pleasant. Frosted Winter Apple has a nice amount of sweetness to it. It’s pleasant to the taste buds, but the green tea base doesn’t shine through very much for me.

A Second Cup?

I attempted to resteep Frosted Winter Apple and fond that it didn’t do too well. There was a lack of coconut and apple in the follow up cup.

My Overall Impression

I liked Dessert by Deb’s Frosted Winter Apple. I found the coconut to be very pleasant and worked well wit the sweet, fruity notes. I did wish that the green tea shined through a bit more, and perhaps had more apple flavour versus coconut since apple is the ingredient that pops up in the name. It’s a pleasant dessert tea though, I found it to be nicely sweetened with the fruit and the palm sugar.

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Sun-Rype’s Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon

Sparking Green Tea Honey Lemon by Sun-Rype
Green Tea / Flavoured
$1.69 for 355ml (1 can)

First Impressions

Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon was a impulse buy at the grocery store when I spotted it in the beverages aisle. A canned carbonated iced tea? Don’t mind if I do! I didn’t realize that Sun-Rype had these, so I got one in each flavour (so be on the look out of the rest of my reviews!). Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon comes in a slim can that has a nice bright green bottom half to indicate the flavour, and differentiate from the rest of the flavours.

Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon consists of: carbonated filtered water, cane sugar, real brewed green tea concentrate, natural flavour, and citric acid. Interestingly, honey and lemon do not make an appearance in the list of ingredients. Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon does contain cane sugar and has no artificial sweeteners, but it also has 23g of sugar in one can. There’s a tab on the top of the can, just like every other pop can out there (and yes, pop – not soda, at least that’s how we refer to it on the west coast of Canada).

First Taste

Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon is a nice yellow-orange colour with plenty of bubbles! There’s a nice honey lemon flavour, although I don’t really get a lot of the green tea – I think the honey lemon flavour overwhelms it a bit. There’s a nice about of sweetness, I don’t find it overly sweet. There’s a touch of a tart aftertaste which I wasn’t expecting, but it doesn’t stop me from finishing off the can.

My Overall Impression

I liked Sun-Rype’s Sparkling Green Tea Honey Lemon. I think I would have liked it a lot better if the tartness wasn’t present, although it wasn’t a deal breaking for me. The cost per can is a bit of a sore point for me though, since I’d rather it be less expensive (or perhaps a bottle) given that this is one serving and only 355ml. I might pick it up on a whim at the grocery store, but at the cost per can, I’m more likely to pick it up as a treat than as a regular drink (especially with that sugar content!).

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DavidsTea’s Organic Anji Green

Organic Anji Green by DavidsTea
Green Tea / Straight
$24.98 for 50g

First Impressions

Organic Anji Green was a purchase I made last year when there was a sale going on (so full disclosure, I got this at 30% off with my online purchase). The tea itself came in a very familiar pouch – albeit a bit larger than the usual one. The bag itself is sealed, and resealable with a bright pistachio green label on the front. Tea that takes up more space (usually traditional teas with unrolled leaves) come in bigger bags than the usual small ones.

The leaves of Organic Anji Green are beautiful – bright green, you can see the leaves and how they’ve curled up on themselves in the drying process. The veins of the leave are visible in some, and the vibrancy in the colour is quite amazing. The aroma is pleasantly sweet, with some fresh grassy notes to it. It’s quite enjoyable to inhale, and hopefully a good indicator of what’s to come. Organic Anji Green consist of organic green tea from the Anji County of Zheijiang Province, China.

Preparation

DavidsTea recommends steeping Organic Anji Green in 85°C (185°F) water for 2 to 3 minutes. I followed the steeping instructions and did an initial steep of this green tea for 3 minutes.

First Taste

Organic Anji Green steeps to a pale yellow colour after the initial steep of 3 minutes. It has a very subtle aroma that wasn’t really easily noticed until I was holding up the cup of tea to my face. The aroma is primarily grassy, which was pleasant. It smells a bit like spring, which is nice. The flavour of the tea is a well-balanced mix. I found some buttery notes, with a subtle cream flavour, mixed in with grass and flavours that remind me of asparagus – just a crisp freshness to it.

A Second Cup?

I resteeped Organic Anji Green a total of eight times (nine steeps total), adding an additional 30 seconds of steeping time to each subsequent steep. The tea deepened in colour and the flavour remained fairly similar to the initial steep. I found that it had strong buttery notes with each steep, which was quite welcome. I would recommend resteeping this tea to get all the flavour (and tea!) that you can.

My Overall Impression

I loved DavidsTea’s Organic Anji Green. I was really quite impressed with how well this tea goes from dry to steeped to being resteeped (so many times!). The flavour stayed delicious and I had a grand ol’ time of steeping this over and over again during one of the recent snow days that I experienced. While I was originally just crossing my fingers that the tea would be worth the price, I think it more than made up for it considering how much use I got out of the tea leaves before I decided to stop resteeping it.

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