Florence

I haven’t had this one in several months. Thus, I decided it would be my morning tea. I am really surprised at how much this tastes like coffee. I just had coffee with French vanilla creamer, and this slightly sweetened tastes so close…. We are trying to cut down on the coffee for summertime, and this makes a great substitute!

Thank you to AmazonV for sending me some of this tea. I love anything chocolate and Valentine’s Day seemed like a good time to try this tea out. :D

The tea smelled deliciously rich, the chocolate scent so strong I almost want to eat the leaves. Some teas seem to smell quite nice, but taste disapointingly bland – fortunately that isn’t the case with this tea. This is a chocolate tea, ladies and gentlemen, it’s like an explosion of pure dark chocolate inside my mouth. It’s not a bitter, cocoa powder flavour like many other chocolate teas I’ve tried, this is definitely chocolate in its finished form, with a light dash of creamy sweetness.

I think I’m in love. ;)

This tea is wonderful anytime. I have been in a real chocolate mood today and thought I would give this tea a sample (Soooooo Glad I did!)
I am very busy and I do not have time to relog praise for one of the best chocolate teas I have had so far on my journey of discovery of teas.
Just like my friends here…..This tea truly rocks!

The Search for a New Dawn continues today: One of the first things I did after bemoaning the evil fate that had befallen one of my two favorite breakfast companions (Dawn tea) was to check on Steepster for a set of teas to try to replace my favorite morning cup. I quickly came upon this one which looked promising. I love chocolate and hoped this would be a good Dawn replacement. Since it received rave reviews here, I ordered it and a few other Harney tea possibilities.

It smells more of hazelnuts than of chocolate in the envelope but once I brew it the fragrance changes to a more complex meld of scents that include nuts, chocolate, sweet tea, and some undefineable sweet note. Chocolate is among the fragrances but it is a softer chocolate than what I think of when I think of chocolate. (I like the darkest of chocolates so that is my benchmark.) The smell is pleasant.

The taste is better. There is a slight bitter edge that adds to the rich feel of chocolate in the tea and it combines nicely with the nuttiness and tea. It is more of an afternoon tea in my opinion since the flavors are a bit too rich and demanding for the morning and would do best with time to sip and a bit of bread or croissant to have along with the tea, but I’m happy with it today since today is the one day we don’t go for our run in the morning. I can’t really see quaffing this tea to get my pre-run caffeine and then haring off. However, it would work marvelously as a post-run treat after one of our long weekend runs, especially in the fall and winter or as a treat prior to going to the theater.

Will I buy it and add it to my unmanageably huge supply of flavored teas? Yes. I will.

Update: Out of curiosity I added a scant bit of creamed cinnamon honey made by a local woman to the tea. I just had the feeling it would work well and it does. It transforms the tea from a delightful chocolate treat to a wonderfully complex dessert. Now if I only had a croissant to go with the tea.

Thank you for sending me some of this Doulton. I finally decided to have some of this. Dry I can smell the black tea and the chocolate with abit of hazelnut. This is my second cup of this in general but my first cup today. I steeped this up. And can now smell the hazelnut abit more. This tastes like black tea with chocolate and some hazelnut. I think this tea is extremely good.

Holy crap this tea really delivers. Smells of wonderful sweet chocolate, and then the flavor is in fact rich, creamy chocolate and toasted hazelnut! Tastes like a Rocher candy without the crunch. Actually, what it reminds me a lot of is those rectangular tins of International Coffee, you know, the sweet powdered “coffee” stuff I used to drink in the ‘80s as a kid thinking I was being all fancy and grown up. That rich, and that guilty pleasure (so sweet, so creamy!) satisfying. Love how much hazelnut’s in this. Woah.

A tea that doesn’t ask much of you (you don’t have to set aside any concentration to enjoy this), that just offers sweet, straightforward pleasure. (I’m also getting the impression it’d be hard to make this tea taste bitter—it’s smooth, smooth, smooth and the tea element is very light, somehow without the whole thing tasting watery. Tastes, yeah, more like a sweet faux coffee or hot cocoa than tea.) I haven’t added milk yet because there’s not even a hint of bitterness and because it’s so creamy already, but I reckon it’d taste just dandy should you choose to do so.

And it resteeps well! Love. Kinda feel like a tea noob/poser for so loving a tea that, um, doesn’t taste like tea, but there it is. Yum.

Tea #3 from Traveling Tea Box C

This smelled delicious in the bag. Nutty and cocoa vanilla-y. Lol. Kinda like Scorpio Zodiac from Adagio, which is a good nutty, tasty comfort tea for me. So I had high hopes.

I ended up using a tsp and a smidge for this because I’ve found that any tea claiming cocoa in it tends to be weak at the recommended measure. Turns out I probly should’ve used 2 tsp, maybe a bit more.

The hazelnut comes through very nicely and makes the tea plenty nutty. But unfortunately the cocoa falls flat for me and ends up making the whole thing taste like watered down chocolate, or just cocoa water…I guess they’d be interchangeable. Kinda like the cheap instant cocoa mixes you can get that say use water for it. Tastes kinda like that. Ugh Then again, I really haven’t found a ‘chocolate’ tea that I’ve liked, though Dubbele Chocolade comes pretty close. Guess if I want warm chocolate to drink, I’ll just have to make hot cocoa. Lol!

I’m going to give this another shot later with more tea because it certainly has potential to be a good nutty chocolate tea.

This is definitely a tea meant to be sipped and savored. It’s very smooth and has an almost silky mouthfeel. (Hehe I used the word “mouthfeel” for the first time in a post! I love that word.) I adore the chocolate and hazelnut combination. These flavors do not mask or overpower the black tea, they are all there, and are quite merry together.

Thank you Liberteas for sending me this sample!

Ohhh soooo good!!!! It reminds me of Nutella but can definitely taste TEA! Flavored to perfection! Great balance of flavors and tea! I think I am going to go make another cup, I am seeing the bottom of this teacup way to fast :)

This is one of the samples I ordered from Harney & Sons. This tea is similar to what I imagine Kahlua mixed with Franjelico poured over ice that is then allowed to melt might taste like. What I mean is that it’s got a lot going for it, but it’s disappointingly thin and slightly sour. I was hoping this would be more full-bodied. This might be really good with sugar and creamer.