I have the hankering for some flavored teas, so let’s drink some dessert teas today. Love Some Tea uses wild-grown tea from Northern Thailand, making the base tea something special.
I previously reviewed Love Some Tea, including their teas without any added flavorings.
Love Some Tea’s Moonlit Mint Black Tea
Love Some Tea’s Moonlit Mint is simply their wild black Northern Thailand tea with peppermint oil.
To infuse this tea, I used 4 grams of leaf, 9.5oz/ 280ml of 200F/ 93c water for 2 minutes.
Moonlight mint sips in fairly pepperminty. As the sip goes on, it gets dark, woodsy, malty, and chocolate. The aftertaste is the fresh mint and a bit of chocolate. This tea works very well as the peppermint is strong and the wild black tea is naturally dark, chocolatey, woodsy, and bold tasting.
If you are into sweetening your tea, a hint of sugar here made it pop more like a peppermint patty. This could also make a good latte.
Love Some Tea’s Apple Pie Green Tea
Love Some Tea’s Apple Pie is a green tea with vanilla, cinnamon, and apple oil flavoring.
The leaves smell just like sugary apples. I am impressed with the quality of leaves here as it looks like something I would gongfu. It is nice to see flavored tea with big full leaves.
I used 4 grams of tea steeped in 9.5oz/ 280ml of 180F/ 82c water for 2 minutes. I did go hotter here as my kettle doesn’t seem to like doing the standard green tea temperature of 175F/ 80c.
Love Some Tea’s Apple Pie Green tea is buttery, mineral, and sweetpea base upon the first sip, but then the aroma and flavor of sweet apples and nuts come through. After each sip, an apple and buttered sweet peas linger. The flavoring smells heavy but in reality, doesn’t overwhelm the tea flavor.
Iced, this Apple Pie tea changes quite a bit as it is more forward sweet baked apples with skin and baked goods. I accidentally steeped this for 3-4 minutes and got a tangy grassy flavor. In my opinion, iced is the way to go and I’d steep this tea again.
(tea provided for review)
