David's Cream of Earl Grey (Organic)

I've tried a number of David's Teas, but this is the only one I actually bought for myself.
I'm a lover of Earl Grey blends and have tried many, it's my go-to morning tea, so I thought I should give one of his a try.

The name is in French because I live in Quebec.

Why Cream of Earl Grey over one of their other Earl Grey blends? Well because I liked the idea of it already having the creamy taste I enjoy from adding a bit of milk.

In case you are having a hard time making out the description and ingredients they are as follows:

Description: Lovers of Earl Grey adore this creamy alternative to the original blend.

Ingredients: black tea, cornflowers, vanilla flavour, bergamot oil.

David's Tea Cream of Earl Grey (Organic)

Dry Leaf: twisty black-brown leaf with small blue flowers and yellow petals. Has an intensely orange scent with a hint of dark chocolate and sweetness.

Wet Leaf: rough edged light brown tea leaves with a hint of olive green to them. Pale yellow petals. Light orange scent and a touch of vanilla.

Liquor: clear orangey-caramel colour. Velvety texture with delicate orange and vanilla flavour and a creamy nut finish.

It's not an overly complex flavour, but I find it just right for lazy weekend mornings where I putter around the house whilst sipping my tea. Not something I'd drink to wake myself up quickly on work days.

Off to the land of Afternoon Tea

My posting will be sporadic over the next little while as I pack up my tea things and move across the pond back to the UK. I've got a lot to do and little time to do it in so blogging about tea will have to take a back seat to drinking my way through my tea collection (as sadly it can't travel with me) as I box my apartment up and sort through my overwhelming piles of stuff (I'm a bit of a pack-rat).

It's sad to be leaving my lovely Montreal and the best apartment I have ever had, but it'll be nice to be back in the land of tea drinkers. I'm really looking forward to finding new tea house and shops, but before I go I will try to get in a few more Montreal tea experiences.

Here's a peak at some of my tea cups before they are carefully wrapped and boxed up for storage.

Pure Leaf Iced Tea

I was recently in the Plattsburgh with my husband and friends for some State side shopping. We decided to have a picnic at the beach so stopped at a Stewart's convenience store because I thought they'd carry Stewart's sodas and I wanted to try one of the flavours we don't get in Montreal. The answer was they didn't carry ANY Stewart's sodas.

You can see why I was confused.

So in my disappointment I took a Pure Leaf™ Iced Tea instead. The selection was small (4 flavours) and I went with Raspberry (I don't drink anything that says "diet" so that knocked out two choices immediately).

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Picnic purchases done I got back in the sweltering car and we continued on our merry way to the beach. Once we'd found a shady spot and spread out our blanket I cracked my ice tea open.

The smell was sweet and raspberry heavy but I could still make out the black tea bite.

The taste was overwhelmingly raspberry and nectar sweet making it hard to taste much of the tea flavour. There was a hint of astringency, but whether that was from the tea or the citric acid added to "provide tartness" I can't say. 

I'll admit I was disappointed as it uses real brewed tea (though I have no idea of the quality of this tea anyways) so was hoping to be able to taste it. None-the-less it is one of the better ready made ice teas I've had as it left no aftertaste and did somewhat quench my thirst. My major complaint was the incredible sweetness of the drink, but there are apparently 10 flavours; 2 of which are labelled as not too sweet and 1 is unsweetened so maybe I'd prefer those.