* He had low Elf-Esteem!
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 19 – Chocolate Digestives
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Chocolate Digestives is a Sri Lankan black tea with cocoa nibs, cocoa shells, fenugreek, liquorice, cardamom and natural flavourings.
I reviewed this tea back in May. I loved it then and I love it still. In fact, I’ve ordered it again several times since then. I have a big ol’ sachet here right now. It’s a regular on the tea shelf and firm favourite in the Tea Fancier household.
The chocolate-digestive-ness of this brew is uncanny. It tastes more like a chocolate-coated wholewheat biscuit than seems scientifically possible for something that is 99% water. It is pure perfection.
And I’m saying that in the full knowledge that this tea has liquorice in it, which is usually one of my tea blends nemeses. It certainly doesn’t taste liquorice-y. (Unless you let your tea go cold and then it does a bit.)
I’m pretty sure the liquorice is contributing to the digestive biscuit taste but I don’t really know how. Such things are beyond the comprehension of a mere mortal and best left to the tea-blending wizards at Bird & Blend.
I said this tea was pure perfection. I meant it too. And yet, this tea is only going to get placed third on my ongoing tea ranking list. There are some hard decisions having to be made here and the stonking levels of awesomeness of the top three teas means it’s almost impossible to choose between them.
I haven’t been slow to voice my displeasure when some of these advent teas have failed to impress but, by Santa’s Beard, Bird & Blend do know how to produce some absolute corkers when it comes to tea.
Tea Ranking
- Mince Pie (17th Dec)
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Chocolate Digestives (18th Dec)
- Snowball (18th Dec)
- Gingerbread Chai (16th Dec)
- Salted Caramel Lebkuchen (13th Dec)
- Panettone (11th Dec)
- Banana Bread Chai (12th Dec)
- Fairytale of NY (9th Dec)
- Poppin’ Xmas Butter Toffee (6th Dec)
- Candy Cane (5th Dec)
- Winter Is Coming (4th Dec)
- Peppermint Hot Cocoa (3rd Dec)
- Mistletoe and Wine (14th Dec)
- Christmas Cranberry Pie (1st Dec)
- Cherry Cola Bottles (10th Dec)
- Mulled Cider (2nd Dec)
- Cold Weather Warrior (15th Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
