Love Tea #7 - David's Tea

Where to buy:  David’s Tea

Description:  GET LUCKY

One sip of #7 and you’ll find yourself head over heels. Mysteriously changed. Magically happy. Walking on air. How does it work? Frankly, we don’t know. Our blender came up with it and then just ran off with the girl of his dreams. Maybe it’s the chocolate bits that lower your inhibitions. Or the seductive strawberries. Or the romantic rose petals. Either way, this black tea is seriously lucky.

Ingredients:  Chinese black tea, dark chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin and vanilla), freeze-dried strawberry, red rose petals, natural and artificial flavouring

Allergens: Soy, may contain dairy 

My Review:

My sister recently came home with a pouch of this tea. I like chocolate and strawberries so I thought I would give this tea a chance.

When I opened the pouch the first thing I noticed was that this tea has tiny pinkish rose petals (although the ingredients say that they’re red). There are little yellowy-pink pieces of freeze-dried strawberries and tiny dots of dark chocolate in the black tea base. This tea is very pretty to look at. The smell is very chocolaty.

The recommended brewing is 1.25 tsp. of Love Tea #7, water heated to 98 degrees Celsius (or 208 degrees Fahrenheit), steeped for 4-5 minutes. I let my cup steep for 5 minutes and added a little sugar and milk.

When steeped, the chocolate scent is very prominent. The strawberry scent does come through, but very subtly. When I tasted the tea it reminded me of chocolate-covered strawberries. The chocolate is not a rich milk chocolate, but has more of an artificial flavour (the same artificial chocolate taste that I find a lot of people use for their chocolate-covered strawberries). The rose petals are not really noticeable and don’t come through in the scent or flavour.

This is a pretty good tea, but I can only drink it once in a while. I find that I can get sick of this tea very quickly, but it’s fine once every few weeks. If you’re a fan of chocolate-covered strawberries then you’ll probably be a fan of this tea!