I hesitated to give this full marks because I know it gets less interesting with time, but that’s also true of my chocolate mint tea that I love, and it’s been a while since I’ve had any of this, so my taste buds are very happy.

I don’t have Asian iced teas very often, but I usually enjoyed them! This had some fun flavors in it, and I think I like ube?

I have not paid any attention to the Dubai chocolate craze, but my spouse was right to guess I’d like this herbal blend. I wouldn’t mind a stronger pistachio flavor, but with more sips, I’m growing to appreciate the subtle nuttiness alongside the cacao flavor.

This isn’t what I want every day, but it’s an excellent combination of flavors.

I think this is my favorite tea of all time. It tastes just like an Andes mint and brings real joy to my morning.

One of my favorite herbals!

I’ve been looking forward to this blend since the beginning of this advent calendar, and I’ve finally figured out how to follow these steeping instructions, and everything has paid off. I do miss some of the maltiness of blending it with Kenya tea, but this is good all by itself.

Okay, I think I figured out how to steep these “one bag per person” blends because this is really hitting the spot this morning! Plus, I reserved a bag instead of steeping both, so now I have more to enjoy later.

Feel weird giving this full marks because it didn’t knock my socks off exactly, but it wasn’t “slightly too strong” in the way that I penalized yesterday’s Kenya blend for, so I guess if I’m going to have plain black tea one morning, I’d be happy with Darjeeling.

I couldn’t articulate specifically why this breakfast blend (which mixes Ceylon and Kenyan leaves) impressed me more than the English Breakfast one, but it did! I could drink this one on a regular basis.

I was just posting this morning about how great this idea of teablogging is, but I’m going to immediately undercut that my questioning my ability to rate teas in the first place.

This is the most interesting and enjoyable blend I’ve had so far in the advent calendar, and for that, it gets a higher rating than anything I’ve tried so far. Yet, I think I’d also tire of it more quickly than most of the other blends I’ve tried, so in the long term (rather than as a first impression), I think it would rate lower. I could drink the vanilla chai every morning even if it was a bit disappointing, but I think I’d have to space the bergamot and jasmine flavors of this blend out or else I’d quickly get sick of it.

The secret to a good s’mores-flavored thing is to get the graham cracker part right—this is why BYU’s Graham Canyon reigns supreme in the world of ice cream.

Anyway, I’ve been drinking this herbal tea for years, and it tastes so much like graham cracker that it feels like wizardry. It may be my favorite herbal tea of all time.