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My Whispering Pines order came!! First up for review is the Jabberwocky. It smells like plums and roses. It tastes like a toasted sourdough baguette covered in honey. The aftertaste is crisp and fresh. It seems to gain in sweetness as it cools. Overall, this tea is fabulous! I’m so excited to try the others!

This was a delicious dessert tea. I find it’s best when this tea is brewed strong with a bit of milk added. This tea has delicious, toasty caramel flavours, with a crisp apple finish. Reminds me of a fall day at the fair.

The first few times I enjoyed this tea, I couldn’t put my finger on why it brought me instantly back to Halloween. Finally I realized, the smell of the tea, is exactly that of carving pumpkins. This tea has a fresh, grassy, squashy, pumpkin smell (it’s uncanny)!

It is smooth and crisp to drink, and as it cools down, it has a distinct roasted pumpkin seed aftertaste, very interesting and enjoyable tea.

One of my favorite chocolate teas. The smell is amazing, but I often find dessert teas smell great but sadly lack in flavour. Not this one!

My partner is from Ireland, and this is the only black tea I drink now (I love it)! Ireland seems to be split between Barry’s and Lyon’s tea, I’ve tried both, and Lyon’s is definitely the winner for me! We bring back boxes of the stuff every time we visit.

This tea smells nice but tastes bitter and medicinal with a fake blueberry taste.

So yummy, like a warm candy cane in a glass!

This tea is one of my favorite seasonal ones. It is so flavorful and delicious! So many teas smell amazing but taste weak, not this one. Sweet, spicy and festive!

I love milk Oolong and this one was nice, but not my favorite (I prefer Ten Ren’s milk oolong). I gave my friend a taste and she said it reminded her seafood :) I thought it was very buttery and pleasant.

Think it would have been better without the Mate. I love Yerba Mate tea, and I love salted caramel, but I found the flavours together to be a bit odd. To me, salted caramel is a dessert tea and mate adds this earthy, smoky flavour that just doesn’t go well with the caramel.

edit: I have to add that this tea has really grown on me. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, or maybe the caramel comes out more when the steep time is longer, but I have been having this Mate most mornings now and really enjoying the earthy, buttery, caramel flavours.