Espresso Yourself (Organic)

Posting out of my queue again;

I should screen cap my desktop for you guys; there are partial tea notes/reviews everywhere, and a giant list of backlogged tasting notes with jot notes for each tea to remind me what I thought of it. At this point it’s getting very cluttered/disorganized so I’m trying to add as little knew to the list as possible.

I picked up 15g of this one at DT yesterday; I didn’t really expect to love it since I’m not big on coffee in the first place and I’m sorta already found my “go to” coffee tea for the rare times when I am craving it (Latte Macciato from Tea Desire) but the dry leaf from this one actually smelled really intriguing so I got some anyway.

This was my tag-along tea for work in the morning; there was something almost laughable about being one of those people (or at least as close to one of those people as I’ll likely ever get) who showed up to work with a piping cup of “coffee”. It’s not an overly complex tea by any stretch of the imagination; basically it tastes like a sort of “medium roast” coffee with cream and maybe the faintest touch of cinnamon. The cream element is what I liked about the dry smell; I’m a sucker for creamy teas. I tasted the chicory root a little bit; but I think mostly this just delivered a nice coffee/cream flavour. Pretty average overall.

I have maybe two cups left of it; I think I’m going to try one with milk because if I ever end up in a situation where I’m drinking coffee that’s how I take it and the second I think I’ll try my Butter Pecan creamer; I think this would benefit from some sweet, nutty notes as well. I feel like it’s safe to say this one wont be a repurchase though.

Yum! I love coffee, I don’t drink it any more, but sometimes I get a jonesing for it. So when I saw this I knew I had to try it. I like it. It’s just enough taste of coffee to appease random coffee cravings, and I can still taste the tea so it doesn’t feel like I should have just had a coffee instead. I had it with 1/2 tsp sugar, kind of wish I’d gone with honey, but oh well. Next time. I’ll probably be keeping a bit of this around.

I didn’t expect to like this tea, because I DESPISE Jumpy Monkey (the smell alone is awful) and coffee in general, but the flavour of this tea is more like a mild mocha flavour, and not overwhelmingly coffee-ish. I enjoyed it. It’s a bit like coffee ice cream.

Dry Leaf Nose: The sweet aroma of coffee with cream and sugar, with a hint of cinnamon.

Liquor: A beautiful clear and rich coffee brown liquor.

Flavour: Just like your morning cup of coffee, the blend is rich and sweet. Hints of cream and cinnamon can be tasted throughout, and the chicory adds to the richness of the blend.